“I love penguins, for they walk like they’re going to hug someone.” -..Fathima Shamla
Penguins (a Haiku)
Penguins do waddle
Feet splayed with welcoming arms
All they need is love
Ivor Steven April 2023
Penguins (a Haiku)
Category: Poems
Tasmania, Day 2
Early Friday morning in Launceston and we going to Wynyard, the main mission of adventure in Tasmania
More green rolling hills and then a refreshment break at Devonport … Terri and Maureen
Next stop Penguin (my choice) and the beautiful beach at Penguin
We all enjoyed visiting Penguin … Terri, Nola, me, Jeff, and Maureen
Penguin and I’m feeling quite at home
On our way back home we stopped at Deloraine and go over the Meander River
The sun is setting and it’s time to head back to Launceston for a well earned sleep
Ivor Steven (c). April 2023
Tasmania, Day 1
3.40 am, and Frankie wakes me up 20 minutes before my ‘alarm’ was due to ring … good doggie… and between my sister and Frankie, I manage to catch the Airport bus on time … 90 minutes later I am at Melbourne airport…
Another 90 minutes I’m finally on the plane with my 5 cousins, and up through the clouds we fly to Tasmania …
Up through the clouds we soar and above the clouds we fly
We leave the picturesque Richmond village and head up to Launceston, stopping at Ross on the way … Nola in front of the rustic Ross Bakery … we liked the old fashioned Bakeries
Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Reflections & Revelations, The Short Of It, Volume 2
Forty-seven poets and writers with astute observations about living, emotions, and our world were featured online in The Short of It publication in 2022. The best of their thoughts fill the pages of this compilation. They will leave you with rich impressions, some providing mysteries to ponder but also many which speak deep truths. Each piece by the poets and writers presented in this collection shows us, with depth and succinctness, what was on their minds. Every one of their poems, as the title of this book suggests, brings to the surface their “reflections and revelations.”
A big thank you to Susi Bocks for editing and producing this outstanding Anthology, and I am proud to have been selected as one of many in a talented list of writers.
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Here are my “Short” poetic entries in Anthology:
Facades
Wearing your best vest
Is not necessarily a truthful test
A facade for a restless chest
Again
Summer’s golden plains
And stormy rains
Erase winter stains
After Twilight
Starry, starry nights
Shine on, shine on bright
Please stay, please stay within sight
Earthquake
I feel the earth quake
Fracturing tears off my soul
Tremors from my heart
Hail
Hailstones, hard as nails
Falling frozen razor blades
Storm’s icy sharp balls
Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Afterglow
Put another log on the fire, while I travel to Tasmania with the two Philadelphia girls and three other Aussie cousins … Thursday 27th April – Monday 1st May
Afterglow
After a frenetic time
I feel like a burnt-out hollow log
My charred core is clinging
Onto nature’s dampened fringes
Of Autumn leaves and fallen branches
Where flora stealthily regenerates
Steadily, my diminished cavern
Is growing wider
And my ambient lantern
Is glowing brighter
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Surprise Surprise!
I posted the below “Faeries and Books” article way back in December 2019.
Faeries and Books
Cousin Maureen, Christine(from Go Dog Go Cafe’s website), cousin Terri
Faeries And Books
Australia is a far away land
Only reached by ship or plane
Today, I saw the Ben Franklin Bridge at my door
Distant fairies were knocking, a message for Ivor
From my Philadelphia cousins, Maureen and Terry
They went to a Pop-Up Shop, a writers library
To meet Christine, our chief of ‘Go Dog Go Cafe’
Who signed a book for me, and a joint photo for my display
Cherished Thanksgiving gifts, to make my heart beat
Now I’m looking forward to my cousin delivering the treats
“On Sunday, at the start of their stay, my cousins (The Good Faeries) Maureen and Terri, presented me with the signed copy of “Smitten” that they had purchased for me way back in November 2019 … I had totally forgotten about the Antology and their gift was truly a very pleasant SURPRISE!”
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Throwback Friday, Time Travelers, original version – December 2017
For my readers, followers, friends and all those who doubt my connection to our unidentified Aliens, my “Mothership” landed for a visit today, to check-up on how I was handling the planet earth’s present dilemmas, and I’m afraid I had to report that the situation here is stagnant and quite grim.
Time Travelers (Revised)
Zap, a herculean lightning bolt precedes an astrological power surge
Traversing the cobalt skies, like gigantic electric eels
Vividly scoring chords, to hang our biblical words on
Like musical notes on lines of lost dreams and regrets
Soundwaves echoing, poles apart, going north, south, east, and west
Conducting iridescent aurora lights over our purple sunset
Vibrating quasars pulsating from deep inside outer space
Focusing on the huge magnetic Receiving Dish, signaling “An Arrival”
Recording a celestial traveler, singing with an angel’s voice
Resonating sweetly, like Handel’s, Messiah Hallelujah Chorus
Translated into the universal language of symphonic sound
Digitally simulcast and televised to the world’s population
A Super-Sonic Cosmic message to be heard loud and clear
“We have returned to your degraded planet earth
to again, bestow upon you, Peace and Goodwill
like we have done before, Eons of Millenniums ago”
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
The Other Side of Yesterday
The Other Side of Yesterday
“Have I come to the end of the road”
I asked the forest’s guardian toad
He quietly replied
“There is always another way
like there is always another day”
Here, is not where I need to stay
I would like to cross the river today
To redefine the other side of yesterday
When life’s narrow causeway
Lead me to her underground doorway
Tullawalla is Available From
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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Perceptions, Photos From the Book Launch
The book launch day was a great success with a good attendance and many books were purchased and I gratefully signed them all. Thank you to Judy, Maureen, and Maja for sending me the photos.
I’m doing the introductory thank you’s with Frankie’s help …
A happy and appreciative audience
L-R: Cousin Terri(Philadelphia), Miffy(sister), cousin Nola(Geelong), me, cousin Maureen(Philadelphia)
R-Centre: Judy Rankin (editor/publisher) – Me and the books, Tullawalla & Perceptions
Kerri, the Cover Designer, there in spirit(Philadephia) – Maja, my guest reader
I think Frankie thought the show was all about him
Tullawalla is Available From
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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
Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
Winding Down (a Haiku)
G’day dear readers, when you read my attached Haiku, it will be the Sunday of my “Book Launch for Perceptions” … I think I’m prepared and ready to handle the event, the weather is going to kind, and from what I’ve heard there is going to be a sizeable attendence …
Please Note, I’ll be hosting my Philadelphia cousins this week and my blogging during their stay will be very minimal …
Winding Down (a Haiku)
My adrenaline
Gradually settles down
Sunset surrounds me
Tullawalla is Available From
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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
Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
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