Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Misplaced in Space”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/misplaced-in-space/
Ivor Steven (c) July 2023
At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Fresh. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my response to their prompt Fresh.
Animal Clouds
Today, the shapely edges of my sky
Formed a gigantic picture frame
Around nature’s enigmatic blue canvas
A magical background for the awaiting clouds
To project their showy animal images on
Then the cinematic masterpiece rolled in
There above I saw a white Whale float by
And across in the corner of the screen
A Cheetah crept in, ready to pounce
Upon the sleepy afternoon moon
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Above Artwork: By my niece, Kerri Costello
Dust In My Eye
I felt gravity’s pressure drop
When I noticed time had stopped
There, beyond our gray sky
Sunlight was beginning to die
Is Doomsday plunging into our sty?
Or, has future’s dust inhabited my eye
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
Today’s poem is one that I wrote while attending a “Writing Circle” meeting, hosted by the talented and gracious, Ali Grimshaw … If you are interested in attending one of her fabulous on-line “Zoom Sessions”, you can visit her site by clicking on this link
>> https://flashlightbatteries.blog/
Featured Image Above; my photo of my computer’s start-up screen this morning, from Windows Microsoft
Arousing “Itmims”
I hear a thunderous storm
Rumbling above
I see a chromatic sky
Illuminating my yard
I feel my romantic dreams
Arousing my Itmims* spacecraft
There ready and waiting
For time to chime in
My next mysterious rhyme
However
Time hears no commands
And silently resets her sundial’s hands
To reignite dawn’s golden strands
*Itmims: “Ivors Time Machine In Micro Space“
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
The article I posted on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today >> https://godoggocafe.com/2022/11/18/throwback-friday-itmims-ivors-time-machine-in-micro-space-by-ivor-steven/
“Itmims” is a poem I wrote in December 2018, when I was hospital, in an ‘Isolation Room’, and Itmims space craft was my imaginative means of escaping confinement.
Itmims (Tullawalla, page 60)
Welcome aboard my bubble ship, Itmims
Come fly with me into the unknown
We shall traverse time and space
Across the borders of level seven
Beyond the boundaries of intelligence
We’ll discover the story of Tullawalla
Capture the heart of a beautiful red-head
Learn about her journey of grace and bravery
Understand the depth of your soul
Show others what happens to the heart
Find your star, your colour, your lost art
Walk deserts in space, swim the Milky-way
Breathe the air I breathe, see what I see
Feel her soft red hair, on your cheek
Step inside my Itmims, sharing love on the high seas
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Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Beyond the Sky (Prose Poetry)”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
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Beyond the Sky (Prose Poetry)
Today I traveled to the stars and touched the outer limits of the universe’s Milky Way. There, I opened a magical storybook that had traversed the mysteries of my bedazzled mind.
My unravelled visions were impelled by a strong solar storm originating in the Atlantic Ocean, from beyond the windswept Isle of Wight. Then within my perceptive mind. those dreams cautiously touched down on the curiously tranquil waters of Geelong’s windswept Corio Bay.
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
All Images: were from my visit to the ‘Writers Retreat Workshop’, held at Drydale’s Old Courthouse & Museum on Friday
The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word; RANDOM. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> HERE . The poem ‘Drumsticks’ is my response to the prompt Random
Drumsticks
Thump, thump, thump
The muffled beat of drums
Hollow depressing throbs
Hauntingly echo
From behind the heavy door
Of the jurors’ chambers
What will their verdict be?
The courthouse gallery is full
Humming in anticipation
Has the Drummer Boy’s case
Been handled fairly?
The alleged fatal weapons
The Boy’s drumsticks
Are yet to be found!
Ivor Steven (c) October 2022
On Saturday morning I visited the the local “Pop Up Creatives Market”. The artwork at the “Wild Woodland Warrior” stall, run by Stephanie had many excellent paintings, and I bought a intriguing print “Library of Possibilities” … we had a nice chat, she likes poetry and we had a mutual poet friend in Jeremy Palmer … and she has an exhibition running at the momont at the Analogue Academy, the venue of my book launch next Saturday November 22nd … My poem below, “The Closing Chapter” was inspired her painting in Featured Image Above
The Closing Chapter
After the first page was turned
The saga progressed slowly
Unopened books were lost
Unused words were found
New novels had to be read
The search for more
Went on, and on
Adventure volumes were added
Library expansion soared upwards
Higher than fiction could fly
Fluttering beyond
The ladder’s last rung
Where the quest for more
Was out of reach
And the tale of uncharted possibility
Remained the unfinished story
Of the closing chapter
Ivor Steven (c) October 2022
This week, the Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: Compare. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> HERE …
In my poem below I have tried to ‘Compare’ the big pond created by our recent heavy rain, with the big, big pond that the “Apollo 13” space capsule had to find in 1970, when their mission to the moon was aborted due to an on board explosion half to the moon …
Golden Pond
Last night I watched an old movie
A dramatic true story
About the Apollo 13 mission
To the moon
During the film
I could hear the pounding
Of heavy rain on my iron roof
In the morning
Despite the water-logged ground
I went for my walk
And found a muddy golden pond
Had flooded the forest floor
In ankle deep water
I stood and wondered
About the Apollo 13 astronauts
Who had failed in their quest
To walk on the moon
Despite the traumatic problems
Of the aborted journey
They miraculously managed to return safely
And land the space capsule
Upon the earth’s golden pond
Ivor Steven (c) October 2022
Above Grey Sky
A black curtain of cloud falls
How dark will this hour become
While daylight vacates the mind
A bitter wind cuts through sound
How silent will the hour become
Before the black dog flies off his chain
A bolt of lightning breaks through the sky
How radiant will this moment become
Before daylight reopens the cracks again
“There’s a crack in everything
that’s how the light gets in” … Leonard Cohen (Anthem)
Ivor Steven © October 2022
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