I’m walking on air
My old heads in the clouds
Will my kite fly too
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
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A Beautiful Red Flower
This week’s Wednesday Challenge, on Weekly Prompts is the word BEAUTIFUL. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here. Below is my beautiful response to the prompt…
A Beautiful Red Flower
Auburn was her hair
A ruby Day-lily
A red flame Begonia
Crimson and warm
Auburn was her hair
A scarlet Geranium
A maroon Bougainvillea
A soft vermilion art form
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
Tullawalla, #22, Who Is Responsible?
Hello dear readers and followers. There’s only 30 days until the launch of my new ‘Book’ , and despite my promotional commitments, amazingly, I’ve still managed to produce my “Twenty Second Tullawalla” Poetry Booklet….. For new readers that don’t know about these booklets, they are basically the reason why I write poetry. I produce these ‘home-printed’ booklets for the sole purpose of raising funds for my favourite charity organisation, the MS Society, in Australia via the MS Charity Shop here in Geelong. And actually all money’s I receive for any of my poetry .via, submissions, I donate to the MS Society…. I’m proud to announce, that the sale of my “Tullawalla Booklets”, have now gone pass $1400.00, … to all the lovely readers, who have donated, to help achieve such a wonderful amount, a big heartfelt thank you, from “us” and the MS Society … …..Amazingly, there is now a total of “911 poems”, in my collection/series of 22 Tullawalla Booklets. This booklet is finally completed, and ready for sale now !! As always, they are available for purchase, either as a hard copy or a PDF format….. All proceeds go to the MS Charity Shop, here in Geelong West….. Please contact me here through my website page and I can chat about arrangements from there…. Oh, the booklet is called “Tullawalla”: “Who Is Responsible?”… …. And here is the link to my website >> https://ivors20.wordpress.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 1st 2021
Waltz Me to the Tune of a Happy Mandolin
Today I’m presenting more of my comments, that I post on other writers articles when I am doing my blogging.. Here below, are words I’ve sent to, ~M~Michelle, Colleen, and Ingrid … I’ve made a few slight word changes and arranged the stanza’s in an order, so as to read like one ‘poem’ , and I think the different “tunes” have blended together ok..
Waltz Me to the Tune Of a Happy Mandolin
Open your eyes a little wider
Let your heart feel a little lighter
See the blue sky appear brighter
And there upon the ocean floats the big blue sky
Reflecting the white caps of nearby mountains
Where the melting snow feeds the oceans’ rivers
Which meander across the lands’ grassy plains
And we look to drop anchor
In the calm of a safe harbour
Away from our daily helter-skelter
Hoping to find that peaceful shelter
But a truly happy mandolin
Is soulfully played from within
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
The Lighthouse
Today, here again I am presenting another ‘5min’ poem that I wrote at Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meeting this morning (haha, “at 6.00am”) and I would like to thank Ali for giving me an opportunity to participate in such a fantastic event … Here is the page link to get more information about the next “writing circle” event. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.
The Lighthouse
I am afloat
In between
Here and there
Am I lost?
My ship clock
Is a sundial
Using the moon
To reflect on time
I hear the waves
Pounding white hooves
A heavy sound
Of many moods
Is the sea growing wider?
Is the light glowing brighter?
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
Waiting
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
Today I went through my initial notes that I made while selecting poems for my book, and it appears that I ‘culled’ 25 poems, that didn’t make the final list, and here is another poem that was ‘cut’ from my new Book “Tullawalla”
Waiting
The earth is waiting
Sick of human’s, and their time wasting
Waiting for their promised cheers
Waiting for less destructive years
Will they give her resolutions of better times?
Will they read, Thor’s neon signs
Will they notice, a smoke covered sun?
Will they be able to breath the air, as a united one?
The earth cannot watch, nor wait
While human’s feed their own greedy plate
Why are they celebrating?
Like blind fools, that are always pretending
As if nothing is going wrong
They can hear the whales crying songs
They can see the polar caps are melting
They can taste the venom of government’s lying
Ivor Steven (c) Jan 2020
Disappointments
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
I think I have given you all enough sneak preview poems from my ‘Book’, so over the next few weeks I’ll be presenting some of my poems that nearly made their appearance in “Tullawalla”, and ironically Disappointments didn’t make the cut…
Disappointments
Life is full of disappointments
Of our physical and mental laments
There is the disgruntled type
When we are stood down
Years of loyalty all for naught
Leaving you downcast and distraught
There is the disheartened letdown
When we are stood-up again
Yesterday’s promise, today’s voiceless ghost
Leaving you an empty chair and sadly aghast
There is the frustrated fiasco
When we are stood upon
Months of being a washout and a physical mess
Leaving your body punished and almost useless
Dismayed and in disarray
When we are misunderstood
Decades of disenchantment, but undefeated we stay
Knowing we all experience disappointments on life’s causeway
Ivor Steven (c) August 2019
Red and Ripe, a Haiku
Red and Ripe, a Haiku
The three shades of red
Fresh, medium, and ripened
A delicious taste
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
Magnetic West
Magnetic West
Adrenaline flow has trickled to a stop
My wildest dream has cascade over the top
I have dizzily had my head in the clouds
My mind is now frazzled and proud
Best I slow down and rest
Away from my magnetic writing desk
Sit at my refuge, the Box Office Cafe
A place to relax and enjoy a coffee
Where I can be tempted by their cake selection
The banana and coconut slice tastes close to perfection
And I will have a convivial chat with my friends
My Dragon, the wise owl Oscar, and Phillip the penguin
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
Winter Rose
Today, here again I am presenting another ‘5min’ poem that I have written at one of Ali Grimsham’s ‘Writing Circle’ Zoom meetings that I attend on Monday’s, but sadly this was my 5th and final session with the group, and I would like to thank Ali for giving me an opportunity to participate in such a fantastic event … Here is the page link to get more information about the next “writing circle” event. https://flashlightbatteries.blog/online-writing-circles/ Tickets by donation. All are welcome.
Winter Rose
I am soundlessly staring
Out the frosty window
Looking at a sunny patch in the snow
Where a single winter rose grows
And here beside the fire flame
I warm my bare toes
I feel their numbness
That only my hand knows
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 2021
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