Where do the Children play?
Over at Moonwashed Musings, Eugi’s Weekly Prompts is: Either Or
Either Way
According to the book of Why
The sun will never die
And the moon is often seen
wearing a black tie
Either way
After the matinee
Where do the children play?
On our filthy ashtray
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Dream Harder”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/dream-harder/
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Today’s Throwback poem is a rewrite of an old piece called “Paper Tigers” (Feb 2019)
The Poet’s Grotto
My writer’s studio, is the littered part of my bedroom
A paper tiger’s haven, has become a messy grotto
I am ruefully feeling muddled and befuddled
Pieces of paper and cardboard kites
Scatter the atmosphere like withered autumn leaves
Falling upon my untidy and cluttered archives
Scribbled words are yet to be decoded
Foolscap pages overwritten and eroded
Undefined and unlisted
Out of focus and twisted
Upside down and inside out
Uncategorized and full of self-doubt
My desk’s dreamy picture postcard
Looks like a moonscape’s junkyard
My poetic writing quill has been the mythological ruler
Showing no regard for my bedroom’s demeanour
I am sleeping covered in my hurdy gurdy verses
I cannot penetrate the stack of obscure foreign addresses
It is time to cast out the pretentious cosmic curses
Free myself of all unpublished jabberwocky
And let my imagination create a new poetic hard copy
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
I Write Her
Thank you to the editor of “Reflections & Revelations”, Susi Bocks, for nominating me …
Announcing The 2022 Pushcart Nominees!
It was wonderful to immerse myself again and fully digest the thoughts of all the pieces selected for the second volume of poetry of The Short of It in order to determine which works were to be nominated for this honour.
I am very happy to announce the following poets’ pieces were submitted to the Pushcart Prize Committee. Those selected were nominated for their contributions to the Reflections & Revelations—a collection of the best featured in the online publication.
Phantasma by Candice Louisa Daquin
remembering by Jane Ayres
The Sum is One by Ivor Steven
Old News Is Not Old News by Joni Caggiano
Winter’s Beauty by Lorraine Lewis
Anxiety by Radhika Puttige
My Poem: The Sum is One
The Sum is One (a Oddquain)
One
Sky above
Five oceans bind us
The one air we breathe comes from
Trees
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Please Note: All attached Photos presented in this article were taken by Derrick Knight, and he has kindly allowed me reproduce them here on my poetry site. You may visit his wonderful article, and site by clicking on this link >> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/10/02/moons-for-denzil/
Moon Dew
The moon slithered
into my bedroom
through a crack beside
her nostalgic heirloom
and lowered himself
onto my breastplate
stared into my eyes
and told me straight
“There is no need for tears
I am here to ease your fears
before I leave
I will give you
a loving spoonful
of magical moon dew
my universal cure
for the morning blues”
“Thank you, Mr. Moon”
as I joyfully sipped
from his silver spoon
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
The Moon’s Midnight Demise
The eclipsing clouds unfolded lengthwise
Masking the chastised moon’s demise
Falling, ostracized and downsized
Out of the mesmerized midnight sky
The fading moonlight capsized
And sunk into my tired eyes
Was I to be finally baptized
Or lying there, tranquillized
Waiting to be mechanized and dehumanized
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
I have been busy today reloading my computer with my printers and scanner, then adding all the necessary apps that I use to organise to my poetry website …
Our spring weather was again atrocious today, but despite the appalling conditions we still managed to go out for our ‘walkies’ …
Images Below: in the right-hand photo, I am sure the big grey cloud was laughing at us, for being the only ones, crazy enough to brave nature’s fierce winds …
Stony Clouds (a Haiku)
The air turned stony
Gales tore in from the south pole
Grey veneered clouds laugh
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Sunset corrals me
With shadow-less power lines
Until twilight falls
Then I switch on the night lights
And see old lovers in bed
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Today’s poem “Untethered”, is also an uncaptured piece that did not make the final list for the new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”… hmmm … and I always like to get away in my “Itmims” spacecraft …
Untethered
With my back against the setting sun
I will fly toward a placid place, not yet overrun
Where the ground is not made of buried heads and limbs
I will untether my sturdy spacecraft Itmims*
And traverse the universe to discover a new world
Another planet of wonderment, yet unfurled
Where rivers and oceans are crystal clear
And unmasked, I can breathe the atmosphere
Where flowering plains are home to sacred trees
And native fauna roam wild and free
*Itmims, Ivor’s time machine in micro space
Coming Soon
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
A poem I wrote back in April, a piece that did not make the final list in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”, oh damn … maybe one for my next Book! … Anyhow, my poem seems appropriate for the world’s current happenings and dramatic events
Deep and Deeper?
while afloat, we keep seeking
and building boats that keep leaking
time sails by, and we keep weeping
I often wonder how deep
humanities knowledge is
yet unseen …
how deep are our oceans
yet unseen …
how deep is the universe
yet unseen …
how deep is humanities love
for one another
yet unseen …
Tullawalla is Available From
Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’
AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:
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Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com
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