Serene Memories
I live in a time zone
Where a peaceful river flows
Through the heart of my home
Down the road, toward the South
The Ocean’s shimmering memories
Convey a tranquil taste
Of sea mist to my mouth
And not far away, toward the North
The mountain’s eucalyptus fragrance
Serenely follows me back and forth
Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Please Note: Derrick Knight took all the attached photos, and he kindly allowed me to reproduce them here on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/10/26/in-search-of-a-mate/
A Bridge Over Untroubled Waters
The rhythmical waters of time
Flowed rapidly under our bridge
As my unruffled pebbles of rhyme
Cascaded down from a faraway ridge
After that, every little ripple on the stream
Reflected untroubled moments in my dreams
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Featured Image Above: Frankie attentively watches me roll up Gina’s air-bed mattress.
Frankie was with Gina yesterday, and “one” disconsolated Frankie this morning.
Over at Weekly Prompts, it’s the last weekend of the month and time for their “One Day” Prompt … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
Besotted
Our blessed guest
From the Northwest
Has left our nest
She expressed
Without protest
That we were the best
Although I did suggest
(as you all would have guessed)
That Frankie was obsessed
And besotted by our special guest
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “A Yellow Stump” 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.
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Quote: “Why do the war’s doors stay closed to friendly paws” … 🐾 Frankie 🐶
Please! No More Encores (Written by Frankie)
When war is over
My door will stay open
The floor is earthen
My decor is green
I adore the theme
Please!
No more encores
I abhor
The vapour
Of war
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
We were caught in the rain during our morning walkies, which prompted me to pick “A Universe Above the Sky” for today’s Throwback Friday Poem …
A Universe Above the Sky
Walking in the morning rain
Wearing water-logged boots
I am dodging millipedes
And hopping over the puddles
Along with the footpath crickets
I see a universe above the sky
As the liquid clouds
Drop their weight
Upon my empty hands
Filling them with verses
Of memories and rhymes
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Creative Geelong Market, Saturday 19th Oct’
Join us on Saturday for our monthly market day, featuring a great selection of stallholders selling art, vintage clothes, second-hand books, and more! Many of our tenants and art studios will also be open.
Tullawalla (a Haiku)
The dream presses on
Empty hands are full again
Of memory’s rhymes
Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Please Note: Derrick Knight took all the attached photos, and he kindly allowed me to reproduce them here on my poetry site.
Today’s poem is one of my verses made up of comments I posted on some of my fellow WordPress writers’ articles during the month … In stanza order, they are
Marisela > lamenting to Lee | words less spoken (wordslessspoken781842219.blog)
Claudia > Faerie Paths — Lost – Humoring the Goddess
Ben Alexander > On the back, or: My mind – The Skeptic’s Kaddish 🇮🇱 (skepticskaddish.com)
Derrick Knight > Sun, Sea, Spray – derrickjknight
Beyond the Dross and the Moss
Loneliness is an empty place
Nothingness is a blank space
I am not lost
Nor buried under the frost
I am just looking for the gloss
Beyond the dusty dross
And the encroaching moss
Tomorrow’s gap
It is not a trap
Zap!
There is a world map
Wild windy seas are wondrous lees
Like a wizard’s wok full of bees
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Sunrise in MacArthur Park
We are in the middle of MacArthur Park
Where the morning sun
Irradiates the trees’ bark
Here, in the heartland
Dawn is more dazzling than normal
Glowing like a molten gold crucible
Shedding neon rays of sunshine
That stream through the tall pines
Like iridescent trumpet vines
Trumpet Vine, Solar Flare Bells
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
Flowers (a Haiku)
Yellow and purple
In a meadow of green
Weeds flower too
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2024
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