Thank you to the editor, Jo, and her team, for selecting my piece in the Geelong Writers Inc. “AnoMaly Street”, Chapbook, Poetry With A Difference, Volume 3, No. 2
Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Today’s Slate-Grey Sky
Dark as tomorrow’s blackboard
Dreary as a bitumen road
Dim like a bat’s cave
Dull like Santa’s razor blade
Dingy and dankly humid
Dowdy as a politician’s banal promise
Dawn to dusk
Daylight has lost its shine
Dethroned by a dusty slate-grey sky
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Sharing
I am a scrubby tree
Shaggy like a wild woolly bee
However, the birds always befriend me
Perching on my bent knees
And pecking at my flowers and leaves
Like a flock of grub-thieves
I am unselfish and kind
And intuitively, I do not mind
My branches are there to be shared
My sacred patch has been spared
And is politically unimpaired
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Thanks to Mad Missy, of MAD – Works blog site (https://mad-missy-work.blog/2024/11/23/embracing-the-struggle/).
I wrote a poetic response to her thoughtful poem, “Embracing the Struggle”, which I later edited to create my poem ‘Thoughts Winnow Into Words’
Thoughts Winnow Into Words
Words waver and wander around
In the weighty shadows of the whispering moon
And we warily wonder why
But there’s no need to worry
Thoughts winnow into words
When wistful eyes hear sound
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Damaged
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Damage Control
“What is the matter
What does it matter
What, is not matter” … Ivor
Do not worry about the damage
Caused by malicious matter outside
We are all mere morsels
Within Nature’s Brewing pot
Bubbling and gurgling away together
Atop of the earth’s volcanic well
“We cannot be consoled
Nor can we be controlled
By the Corporate bankroll” … Ivor
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
For today’s Throwback Friday poem, written in April 2021, I have revised the first stanza and altered the final line.
A Line in the Sand (Revised #3)
Did you hear the latest hocus pocus?
About the world’s leaders’ lack of focus
Who resemble mythical fiery dragons
Ready to torch the refugee wagons
With their sponsored guns and cannons
In my mind, I am searching for the olive tree
Please come walk with me
We will go to the seashore
And watch the dove’s soar
Hold my other hand
As I scribe a line in the sand
A message to the sky
Love and peace I decry
Will I receive an honest reply?
Or nothing, but more blind eyes?
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is – Nurturing. To visit their fabulous site, click on >> Here
Today, my poem is about the “Nurturing”/guiding powers of the full moon.
Full Moon Rising
I am an aging seagull
And I must be out of my skull
Thinking that I’m fit enough
To fly further than the bluff
No matter, there is a full moon
To guide me across this barren dune
My journey is a lonely one
But I’m not to be outdone
I know there is another blue ocean
Beyond this World’s wavering horizon
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Live and Let Die
The misty Full Moon sighed
My garden Magpie cried
And the Twilight Bunnies
In a startled stride
Ran away to hide
The Titan Arum* flower had died
And with compassionate pride
I felt like a loveless bride
Speechless and teary-eyed
* Titan Arum, the Corpse Plant.
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “The Wounded Blacbirds” is in this week’s edition. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-wounded-blackbirds/
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Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; Watch … to visit their fabulous click on >> Here
My poem below was prompted by Watching the tree’s different shaped trunks and roots
Not Perfect, But Valuable
My roots are splayed and distorted
But I am not disabled
My trunk is grey and twisted
But I am alive and growing
My branches are soft and frail
But I am mentally and physically
Strong enough to reach for the sky
And propagate my life-giving leaves
“The true meaning of life
is to plant trees,
under whose shade
you do not expect to sit” … Nelson Henderson
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
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