Category: Poems

A Sapphire Blue Canopy

At Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Treasure. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here . Below, my poem “A Sapphire Blue Canopy”, is about the ‘treasure’ of our morning sky.




A Sapphire Blue Canopy


Above the shimmering horizon

Daylight’s glow resolutely grows

Like a rising ocean tide

Strutting over hot sand


The sunrise swaggers

Up through the clouds

Vividly vapourizing

Their hypnotic silver linings

And progressively exposes the sky’s

Sapphire blue canopy








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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Throwback Friday, The Oven Sky, by Ivor Steven

Copied from my article on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today >> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/17/throwback-friday-the-oven-sky-by-ivor-steven/

It’s a hot 103’F here in Geelong this afternoon, so appropriately my Throwback Friday poem “The Oven Sky”, from February 2019, is my repost for today.

The Oven Sky




The summer flowers have faded and gone

Wilting leaves, look like the devils blight

My Calendar declares Autumn is almost here

But it’s still summer in the city

Remaining hot and dusty, here on my plot

All the dogs are panting, searching for a cool block

Singed birds have refused to fly in the oven sky

Today’s furnace, is the night’s unwanted heater

Dry rot is crumbling, under the burning sun

Fat rain drops have forgotten their landing spots

And the drought smiles at us with disdain

As we gasp and forlornly wait for a cool change









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Ivor Steven (c) February 2019

A Fractured Birdbath

My back pain has been reasonably under control for 6 months, mainly due to my daily exercise routine and the two weekly visits to the Community Rehab Centre, but disappointingly I am again suffering from extreme back pain … I know I need to rest up for a few days and also keep my exercise program going, and hopefully I will be sufficiently good enough to be back to my wobbly best soon … so my time at the computer desk will be restricted and I will only do what is comfortable for me …

Featured Image Above: a photo my sister sent me this afternoon of her garden’s birdbath …


A Fractured Birdbath




I have been staggering

Sometimes stumbling

Beneath the hard rain

but I see no soft puddles

on my cobblestone path


My empty matchbox raft

Is snagged in my tubs gurgling drain

And out in the yard’s fractured birdbath

only charred snow flakes

and a dry feather-sponge remain

to soothe my back pain






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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Promote Yourself Monday: February 13, 2023

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Magpies and Butterflies





Magpies and Butterflies 


Our sad solar eye 

Is hiding behind a misty sky

Why do you cry? 


The golden age did not die 

Nor are we waving goodbye 

Despite the state of our pigsty 

Verbal bullshit deeper than knee-high 


One day soon, we will try 

To become nature’s ally 

Turn ourselves into the good guys 

With clip-on clean green bowties 

Then, save our magpies and butterflies 








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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Birds in Flight

The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: OLD. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here

This morning I luckily managed to take several bird in flight photos using my “Old” Apple iPhone. Of course, I had to enhance and enlarge them, but fortunately, a few of the photos came out ok, and subsequently, with excited enthusiasm I wrote this poem “Birds in Flight”.


Birds in Flight


Our spirit birds sleep all night

Then emanate at first light

To resume their dedicated flights


Our watchtower sentinels of Mother Earth

Who sacredly ascend at first light

Forever in flight, since nature’s worldly birth









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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Throwback Friday, Birds on Wires (July 2010), by Ivor Steven

At “Go Do Go Cafe” earlier today …
>> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/10/throwback-friday-birds-on-wires-july-2010-by-ivor-steven/

Last month I posted a poem on my website which was also Titled “Birds on Wirds”, however my Throwback poem from July 2010 is completely different, and in keeping with my poetic theme about birds lately I thought It would be appropriate to repost my first “Birds on Wires” poem here today …



Birds on Wires (July 2010)



Here on the edge of lower earth

Beyond the urban concrete girth

Withering trees are trying to grow

Reaching for that mystical power flow

Hungering for energy from contaminated ground

Not the airwaves of false sonic sound

Man-made arrows cluttering  the sky

Unnatural webs soaring high

Bird dodging spires

Hanging on cold steel wires

Carriers of these modern times

The pulse of humanities crimes




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Ivor Steven (c) July 2020

Birds Walking





Birds Walking




Who would need wings

If the ground was safe all year long

A level field for the world’s bird songs



No gas-filled trenches

No bombs dropping from the sky

No fallen angels waving goodbye






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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Dancing in the Rain (an Epigram) is Published in the January Issue of “Positive Words Magazine”

Over on Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word: ENOUGH. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here …

Below, the Epigram “Dancing in the Rain” that I wrote in September 2022, has been selected for publication in the Australian Magazine “Positive Words”, thank you to the editor Sandra for considering my piece >>https://positivewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/ …
The poem is my first ever “Epigram” and to be published in this wonderful magazine is more than ENOUGH reward for my debut Epigram …









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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023

Forked Tongues

THIS THURSDAY AT 6:30 PM
Lowercase presents: SPEAKING IN TONGUES
At The Medusa Bar
Hello dear readers and followers, if you are in the Geelong area, come along, you are most welcome, and I will be reciting my new poem “Forked Tongues”.


Forked Tongues




War clouds cover the sun

The wind hums through dead leaves

They’re talking in tongues


Beach sand is on the run

The waves sharply rise and cry

They’re talking in tongues


Moon shadows are left undone

Their white light hides under trees

And they’re talking in tongues


The new dawn has begun

Sunrise greets everyone

But we’re talking in tongues






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AND
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023