Featured Image Above: The 63 Degrees Cafe, which is across the road from the Box Office Cafe
A happy Frankie, and the little Finch … The Book Bird message.
The New Year is Near (a Tanka)
I’m across the road
At a different cafe
It is New Year’s Eve
Today the Box Office closed
Early for the holiday
Ivor Steven (c) December/January 2023/2024
Featured Image Above: A photo of the Geelong Library, affectionately known as “The Dome”
Seven days ago I posted a poem called “Stars”, a piece about “The Dome Poets” Christmas Party ‘brunch’, and where we were each to bring a short poem about our poetry group (Secret), which was then folded and drawn from a hat, and recited by the drawer.
Today I am presenting a poem from that Day, by a fellow ‘Dome Poet’, Emma, and the piece was a Christmas Ode about ‘me’ , and Emma kindly gave me her poem, “The Wordmaster” (attached below) when the party concluded …
A Poem About Me, by Fellow Dome Poet, Emma.
By, Emma Jones, The Dome Poetry Group, 6/12/2023
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
My poem here, was a response/comment to Jevannel’s positive article, >> https://jevannelacademy.com/just-a-random-entry/ , which I have slightly altered to create this verse
The Swing’s Tempo
Life is full of challenges
Living alone is a challenge
Life’s challenges are there to be hurdled
Don’t let the world bring you down
The trees of life have many branches
Choose your strongest branch
Attach a lullaby swing
And enjoy all the highs
And flow with the lows
Of the swing’s enchanting tempo
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “A Mirror Image of You”, 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.
>> A Mirror Image Of You – Coffee House Writers
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
A poem from my WP archives (March 2018), that I’ve tinkered with, and rehashed a number of times over the years. The original poem was written years before Carole passed (12 years ago), so the wording is quite ambiguous and introverted, and I’ll leave it up to your imaginations to interpret my thoughts …
Just A Call Away (Revised #2)
Waiting, when is she to summon me
Pondering what might have been
Writing to one and all, a finale
Pen to paper, wanting her to see
How I survived the Tasman Sea
While searching for her freedom tree
Wondering if it’s a selfish sin
To wear my second skin
Under an invisible coat of tin
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
December, it’s that time of the year for the release of Anthologies, and here is another annual Anthology that my poems have been published in. This Anthology has been produced and published by the Belmont Page Writers Group (Geelong) and superbly edited by our convener, Claudia Collins.
“A Fortunate Man” is the second poem of mine that was published in this year’s fabulously presented Anthology.
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
December, it’s that time of the year for the release of Anthologies, and here is another annual Anthology that my poems have been published in. This is one has been produced and published by the Belmont Page Writers Group (Geelong) and superbly edited by our convener, Claudia Collins.
Two of my poems were published in this fabulously presented Anthology, and today I am presenting the first one “A Forever Coat”.
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Summer solstice shines
Under a bright twilight moon
Like a Christmas light
Enchanting my heart tonight
Cosmic blue, this is the life
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Last Sunday morning I attended the “The Dome Poets” Christmas Party ‘brunch’, and we were each to bring a short poem about our poetry group (Secret), which was then folded and drawn from a hat, and recited by the drawer, and then we had to guess who wrote the poem … A very enjoyable session indeed, but I didn’t guess the authors too well … Haha, I got mine right! and one other …
Featured Image Above: The Dome Poets Group, taken at our Anthology book launch in June
Stars (My Poem, for the Dome Poetry Christmas Party)
Another year has been and gone
Today our words are secretly drawn
We’ll open our eyes and hear the peaceful sounds
Of our poems being eloquently unbound
A time for the Dome’s stars to be crowned
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
I wrote the original piece on 21st December 2017, and this revised version I wrote on the 21st December 2019.
A Christmas Diamond, a Sparkling Jewel (Revised)
I dreamt of your radiant face last night
So serene, a diamond, a dove, so pure white
Not sad, just vivid memories, oh, so bright
And I’ve plenty of tears, don’t worry, I’m all right
Visions of your bravery, courage above, and beyond
So gracious, an everlasting smile, our iconic bond
Completely in awe, amazing, a personal anthem
And I declare you were natures stellar blossom
I felt your pain, your sorrow, revealed to only a few
So uncomplaining, never a burden, never a shrew
Thinking the whole world should be like you
I wish this hungry planet could be cheerful too
Wondering why is life, sometimes ordained cruel?
But I’ll continue on, for you, my sparkling Jewel
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
