Ivor and Frankie at the Box Office Cafe
Rainbow Over Pako
After the dawn’s cold frost
Our morning walk was cool and crisp
But the autumn sun was shining
And we decided to head down to Pakington St
Affectionally known as “Pako”
A charming street with small rustic shops
And abundant alfresco-style cafes
We always go to our favourite venue
The ‘doggie friendly’ Box Office Cafe
Ivor Steven (c) May 2025
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word Cavalier. To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here
Hit and Run
Reluctantly, there I was
Tidying “our” shared nature strip
Picking up the obnoxious rubbish
And placing it back
In “his” smelly garbage bin
Which had been knocked over
By the “neighbour’s” visitor
The culprit had fled the scene
The “cavalier neighbour” remained inside
Distur‘bin’ly,
This was a messy case
Of “Hit and Run”
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven © May 2025
Today’s Throwback Friday poem was written in October 2022.
Featured Image Above: Photo by Derick Knight, and I have used the photo once before in another poem (>> https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/time-watches-over-us/) . Again, thank you to Derrick for allowing me to use his photos on my site.>> https://derrickjknight.com/
I Did Not Hear The Midday Chime
I slyly lookup
In silent amusement
At the old chiseled face
Of my Grandfather clock
And I see his shaky hands of time
Are too bleak and meek
To strike the midday chime
I slowly close my eyes
Overused muscles are cramping
Weakened bones feel brittle
This complicated mind is tired
And my dream needs to sleep
Before I can write another rhyme
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Ivor Steven © March 2025
Featured Image Above; Street art, Little Malop St, CBD, Geelong
Awkwardness
Within this world’s wilderness
Beyond my ongoing tiredness
I must confess
My aging awkwardness
It’s becoming more difficult to address
Nonetheless
Life’s progress
It’s a challenging process
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
It’s not “World Poetry Day” until Friday 21st, but here in Geelong, the Geelong Library held a celebratory event tonight (Wed) … so appropriately, I thought I would repost a poem from my first book, Tullawalla, “Poetry in Motion”
Poetry in Motion
I was searching for words
Maybe the script’s lost in celluloid
I’ve a pile of empty poems
Frustratingly strewn
Here, there and everywhere
But I hear them whispering
“We’re not finished yet
Do not leave us for dead
Under this thick biblical heap
Please tend to your lost sheep”
The mound of poetry pages
Began chanting louder
And I was silently listening
To their distant preaching
But I’m not that proud
And I quickly lit the gunpowder
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Our Creative Geelong Market Day was a very warm 33’C. However, we were comfortable enough, and with Frankie’s friendly demeanor and help we still managed to sell a fair few books.
Our bookstall, and Frankie overseeing the setting up …
The market’s Atrium area, and Jen Stevens with her creative pottery display
Adele and her fabulous hand-painted denim jackets …”Twilight” and “Ekphrastic” were inspired by her perusing my books at our previous market day.
A painting I purchased from our adjacent stall holder, Jen McElwee. And an embroidered card that she gifted me, with my poem “Dreams of the Heart” that she copied from my book “Tullawalla”
How the card appeared on the inside
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
It’s another hot day here in Geelong, and after our early morning walk, we have been inside avoiding the heat haze. I’ve been writing, and Frankie has been snoozing. The heat haze seems to have sent my computer into a discombobulated maze!
There’s No Exit (a Tanka)
In a daze, I gaze
At my screen full of X-Rays
My mind is ablaze
Analyzing the next phrase
There’s no exit to this maze!
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “Is This The Time” is in this week’s edition. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/is-this-the-time/
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2025
On Thursday evening I attended the Lowercase Poetry Open Mic night, and after the event was finished I went down the road to check out the Creative Geelong “Third Space Gallery”, which I had not seen before at night. Wow, as the saying goes, “It was lit up like a Christmas tree” …
Illuminated (a Tanka)
The neon spotlights
illuminated my words
and the art display
in the “Third Space Gallery”
like a hit show on Broadway
Ivor Steven (c) February 2025
Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from October 2022, and I wrote it to signify the announcement that “Tullawalla #31” was to be the final publication in my series of “Tullawalla” Booklets.
The poem appears in my book, Until Eyes Hear Sound, Chapter 8, page 120.
The above Images are of my, bedroom bookshelves, loungeroom bookcase, and bedside table of books.
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 final chapter
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Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Tullawalla:
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ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) February 2025
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