ABOUT OUR MARKET DAY
Creative Geelong’s monthly Market Days showcase local artisan products, secondhand goods, clothing, books, records, produce, artistic works and art materials to buy, sell, swap – all welcome to visit.
The Market Day will be undercover in our Hub at Centrepoint Arcade,
This Saturday
132 Little Malop St
In the atrium, and along the arcade
11 am-4 pm
Free and Undercover
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word Stodgy. You can visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My poem “Flying Among the Clouds” is definitely not Stodgy.
Flying Among the Clouds
I’m flying high
Cruising among the clouds
Fly with me
And the rest of my flock
Up here
There’s no need for a clock
Time gives no commands
Cruising among the clouds
Silently overseeing the crowd
Time always flies
At the same standard pace
There, in that space
Between daytime’s silvery moon
And twilight’s glittery sun
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)
Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Flying Toward the Sun
we all know
that the sun will shine
and that the birds will fly
we all know
why the full moon glows
and why the trees grow
but we do not know
who makes our world cry
or who chooses our time to die
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)
Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
It’s another hot day here in Geelong, and after our early morning walk, we have been inside avoiding the heat haze. I’ve been writing, and Frankie has been snoozing. The heat haze seems to have sent my computer into a discombobulated maze!
There’s No Exit (a Tanka)
In a daze, I gaze
At my screen full of X-Rays
My mind is ablaze
Analyzing the next phrase
There’s no exit to this maze!
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
I Was Kissed on the Eyes
There I stood
A captivated spectator
At the epicentre
Of Nature’s twilight zone
To the north
Low in the late afternoon sky
The pacific platinum moon
Kindly kissed my eyes
And to the west
Sliding into the nylon horizon
The glitzy golden sunset
Also, kindly kissed my eyes
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
The Sun Wins Again (a Tanka)
An Early Walkie
“I know, you’ve just woken up
Frankie, it’ll be hot
today, just like yesterday”
The blazing sun wins again
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Things That Go Zap in the Night (a Haiku)
Tonight’s Alien lights
Zigged and zagged across my screen
Digital delights
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Remembering “My Women”, my dear wife, Carole, and my amazing mother, Esther …
Thank you, Bella, for encouraging me to post this poem today …
>> https://thoughtsnlifeblog.com/2025/03/07/an-ode-to-women-in-honour-of-internation-womens-day/
My Women
After I had left the hem
Without women
I could not have survived my time
I would not have braved the climb
Ladies, you are my rhyme
My mother’s of thyme
Helping me roll away the stone
Maintaining these old bones
Repairing the bridges, I have burnt
Reciting the messages, I have learnt
Cheering from the sidelines
Supporting my broken designs
Women of My Rhymes
Mothers for a lifetime
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
The madrigal (developed by Geoffrey Chaucer), and thank you to David of Skeptics Kaddish, for introducing me to this interesting poetry format
>> https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/02/21/the-threshold-or-the-soul/
Here are the rules:
Usually written in iambic pentameter.
Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.
All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains.
The poem follows this rhyme pattern:
Line 1: A
Line 2: B1
Line 3: B2
Line 4: a
Line 5: b
Line 6: A
Line 7: B1
Line 8: a
Line 9: b
Line 10: b
Line 11: A
Line 12: B1
Line 13: B2
Another Hot Summer’s Day (a Madrigal)
Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”
And the moon is just looking for a cool seat
For his normal silvery midday disguise
And feeling sorry for the world’s sunburnt feet
Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”
Today is just another day for the flies
Where they thrive on digesting everything sweet
And infesting the uncovered sunbaked meat
Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”
And the moon is just looking for a cool seat
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
Sails and Wings
The local yachts
are out sailing on the calm bay
The coastal birds
are flying above the cool seaspray
I sense it is nature’s way
of reminding me about my dream
To clip on my wings and fly far away
Toward the northern hemisphere
and visit my cousins on Vancouver Island
.
Until Eyes Hear Sound
Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)
Perceptions:
Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)
Tullawalla:
Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books
OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 2025
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