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A Beetle Called Bertha, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Beetle Called Bertha”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/a-beetle-called-bertha/

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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Alexander (a Haiku)

Where do you go to?

My Alexander beetle

Striding so calmly

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Throwback Friday, Street Art, The Other Half, by Ivor Steven

Posted this morning on “Go Dog Go Cafe” >> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/03/03/throwback-friday-street-art-the-other-half-by-ivor-steven/

Today’s “Throwback” article was originally posted in September 2018

The featured Image above, was after I’d walk around the city centre of Geelong taking all of these photos,.. I had to have refreshments, and the best place seemed to be Pistol Pete’s Blues Bar, with loud music, tasty food and a cold beer or two.

For those followers of Australian Rock Music, the above mural is of Chrissy Amphlett, she was a Geelong girl, and lead singer of the Divinyls, one of our great bands during the 1980’s and 1990’s

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

Nature Remembers (a Haiku)

The red lily blooms

In February each year

Memories of you

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Dust In My Eye

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

In Need of a Wise Owl

“In Need of a Wise Owl” is a poem from my book “Perceptions”, and I have scanned “page 4” directly out of my copy and reproduced it here, to give everyone an idea of how each page appears to the reader. The wonderful photos are by Derrick Knight (Southern England), and all have one of my Ekphrastic poems below the associated image. The fantastic cover artwork is by my amazingly talented niece Kerri (Bensalem, USA)

“Déjà Vu”. Lyrics by, Crosby Stills Nash & Young

One, two, three, four

If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do, don’t you?
If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel
I would probably know just how to deal with all of you

And I feel like I’ve been here before
Feel like I’ve been here before
And you know it makes me wonder
What’s going on under the ground, hmm

Do you know? Don’t you wonder
What’s going on down under you?

We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before
We have all been here before, we have all been here before

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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023

Walkie (a Haiku)

Walkie (a Haiku)

To explore his patch

He happily trots away

He then prances back

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Infusion (a Tanka)

A big thank you to Dwight >> https://rothpoetry.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/we-cant-help-ourselves/ , his wonderful poem inspired this Tanka …

This week’s Weekend Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: WALKING. Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on this link >> https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/25/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-walking/
The featured photos attached were taken on my morning “walk” with Frankie …

Infusion (a Tanka)

Nature inspires us

mere mortals, through the bad times

live on and enjoy

times of preordained sunshine

that infuse our souls with light

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Throwback Friday, The Time-Machine’s Secret Code, by Ivor Steven

Copied from my article on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today >>
http://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/24/the-time-machines-secret-code/

A Poem From Early March 2019:
Well here l am, back in hospital again and feeling anxious about whether I am going to be fit enough to fly to NewYork and Philadelpha in just seven weeks time.

The Time-Machine’s Secret Code (Revised)

I’m no stranger to this land

The warm hourglass sand

Is drifting past my hand

I’m no stranger to this room

Time has me back here too soon

I’ve yet to go on my trip to the moon

I’m no stranger to this road

Time has me carrying destiny’s load

I’m here after my latest episode

I wait for a new download

From the time-machine’s secret code

I’m no stranger to this hospital door

Again, I’m grounded in ward four

But I will beat this unheralded war

And the nurses will say hello, and goodbye Ivor

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

The Odds and Ends, I Send

A poem made up of anecdotes that I have written and sent to my fellow blogger’s sites, as replies to their articles/poems … In order of stanza appearance below,
– V.J. >https://vjknutson.org/
– Kate > https://aroused.blog/
– Beth > https://ididnthavemyglasseson.com/

This week’s Wednesday Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: CHANGE … here is the link to their fabulous site >> https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/22/weekly-prompts-wednesday-challenge-change/ … and my poem today is a “Change” from what I normally write …

The Odds and Ends, I send

Our head reaches for the clouds

But our heart forgets to speak aloud

We are all little fish in a big sea

Swimming below the atmosphere

Created by nature’s life giving trees

Not all rocks

Are not just rocks

Some old rocks

When you study their socks

And listen to their knees knock

They “Have rocked around the clock”

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023