The rain soaked my heart
Moving my soul’s existence
Away from this world
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/ IVOR20 … Copied from my article on “Go Do Go Cafe” this morning. >> http://godoggocafe.com/2023/03/24/throwback-friday-baby-vegetables-and-puppy-dogs-by-ivor-steven/
Today I am presenting a poem I originally wrote in August 2019 …
Baby Vegetables and Puppy Dogs
We can climb the tallest peaks
Where there’s the purest thin air to breathe
Yet we still dispossess children of their rightful freedom
Bagging them in plastic like vegetables in a fridge
We can dive into the ocean’s deepest chasms
Where without artificial lights it’s too dark to see
Yet we still blindfold children from the solar daylight
Abandoning them at night like forgotten homeless dogs
We can fly to the furthermost planets
Where there’s a willingness to meet the unknown
Yet we still treat frightened children like Saturn’s aliens
Caging them like feral animals in a desert zoo
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
The storm’s naked clouds
Wore two shades of gloomy grey
Enshrouding nature’s
Latent thunderous outburst
An electric light display
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On Weekly Prompts the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Wait. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My poem below is about ‘Waiting’ for the sunset.
Sunset, A Moment in Time
here
I stand
waiting
I see
clouds lifting
paddocks shimmering
here
I stand
camera in hand
waiting
for that pivotal moment
where the edge of time
implodes
here
I see
the golden sun
and a tree-lined horizon
majestically collide
sunset!
7.35 pm
click!
picture perfect
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Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Cracks and Holes”, 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/cracks-and-holes/
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
This evening I celebrated “World Poetry Day” at a special event sponsored by Deakin University and Geelong Regional Library, which was held in the magnificent Geelong Library Building, featuring recitals from six exceptional poets, John Bartlett, Wendy Fleming, Rosemary Blake, Maria Takolander, Rachel Baxter, and Anne Elvey.
For World Poetry Day I am presenting a poem from my new book Perceptions – “A Soul’s Weary Retreat”, which I scanned directly from the book.
Video Below: Leonard Cohen reciting “A Thousand Kisses Deep”
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Featured Images: I am thrilled to say that the attached photos are mine, and they are my first-ever successful photographs of Dragonflies …
Dragonfly, Nature’s Guardian Eye
Long before homo sapiens overachievers
You were the swamp’s incorruptible believer
Overseer of the planet’s rivers and valleys
The weary world’s ardent ally
Long before the floundering Ark
You were our wisest Monarch
Overseer of the forest’s unpolluted sky
Nature’s sprightly guardian eye
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The cheery crowd were having a good old-fashioned Irish Gathering, enjoying the traditional Irish Guinness and the jovial Irish Music, by two fabulous bands (while I was there) … “Madigans Wake” and “The Poachers”, Videos Attached Below
The two Irish Music Bands, “Madigan’s Wake” and “The Poachers”
Me with a Guinness and smile and some of the happy patrons
Late afternoon and it was crowded … we had a good spot behind the sound mixer.
An Irish Pub (a Haiku)
What more would I need
Guinness and Irish music
On St Patrick’s Day
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
Copied from my article on “Go Do Go Cafe” this morning. >> http://godoggocafe.com/2023/03/17/throwback-friday-please-let-the-world-stay-green-a-haiku-by-ivor-steven/
A poem from St Patrick’s Day last year (2022), and here I am again today. Maybe another poem/haiku tomorrow … it’ll be a shortish piece … I’ll be extra tired … ☘
Please! Let The World Stay Green
Afternoon / evening
St Patrick’s Day at Murphy’s
Irish songs and cheers
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2022
For Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Breathtaking
Breath Taking
Who’ll be left
To do the colouring in?
And breathe in the new oxygen?
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Ivor Steven (c) March 2023
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