Poems – Page 57 – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Together in the Box Office Cafe

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is: Sleep … please visit their fabulous website by clicking on >> Here.
I’ve been busy the last several days, an open mic’ night, a big fun afternoon at the Box Office Cafe (Poem below), Creative Geelong Market Day, and tomorrow morning it’s my Dome Poetry Group’s monthly meeting … And tonight, I am very “Sleepy”

Together in the Box Office Cafe

As is Frankie’s way
In his cute and friendly manner
He invited three young ladies
To join us at our table
And as in Tullawalla’s, ‘a meeting place’
We quickly became cheekily friendly and chatty
They were inquisitive about what I was writing,
and my books, ‘Perceptions’ and ‘Until Eyes Hear Sound’

The three “train-driver” ladies jokingly agreed
“Youth is wasted on the young”
Then, Ivor, Frankie, Carla, Mandy, and Emily
Shared pup-cups, cappuccino, and latte
Along with some neuro-cool glasses
Of vodka, prosecco, and martini

Thanks to the ladies, we had a fun afternoon
Frankie lapped up all their extra cuddles
And Carla kindly purchased
Signed copies of, ‘Tullawalla’ and ‘Perceptions’

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Creative Geelong Market This Saturday

Creative Geelong

Our monthly Market Day is tomorrow! We will have a dozen stalls with a broad range of goods on offer including art & crafts, books and clothes and all manner of bric a brac. It’s all undercover at Centrepoint Arcade from 11am-3pm.

Several of our tenant art studios will also be open as well as the May’d Shop.

Saturday 15 June

132 Little Malop St Geelong

Market Day

11am-4pm

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Throwback Friday, Patiently, I Am Waiting

A poem I wrote in April 2021, about waiting for the Publisher to do the edit corrections and have my “new” book (Tullawalla) printed and look the way I wanted it to be!

Patiently, I Am Waiting

Patience drifts around the clock
Patience floats in dry-dock
Patience hovers in transit
Patience belies my spirit

Patiently I walk
Patiently I talk
Patiently I listen
Patiently I have forgiven

Patience is the essence
Patience is my sentence
Patience is my burden
Patience is my warden

Patiently I wait
Patiently I update
Patiently I sleep
And alone I weep

Patiently I Compromise
Patiently I will arise
Patiently I reactivate
Patiently I will gravitate
Patience commands my time
Patience is my crime

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Rainclouds and Rainbows

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Impatience … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
Today my poem is about being patient and accepting what Mother Nature offers us each day …

Rainclouds and Rainbows

At the beginning of day

I felt the icy rain

There, I sheltered

Under a satiny rainbow

That had emanated

From the weeping sky

At the closing of day

I stood before the velvety sunset

And there I nestled

Under the silky crescent moon

That was heading

Toward the rosy horizon

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Rubber Soles and a Timeworn Soul

I use only one pair of shoes and after 12 months and 2200 km later, I’ve worn off about 15 mm of rubber from the outside heal area …

Rubber Soles and a Timeworn Soul

My shoe’s rubber soles
Are worn out and almost gone
And the laces are threadbare
Like burnt-down candle wicks

I have traveled many hard miles
My old bones are weary
Worn out and almost gone

But my timeworn soul remains intact
While my journey’s dreams are alive and well

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Nuzzling and Guzzling (a Novem)

Frankie sleeping on my feet … Frankie waiting … Frankie guzzling coffee

A ‘novem’ is a poem format consisting of four-syllable, three-word tercets in which the positioning of the disyllabic word is different on each line.

All gone! … a dry plate

Nuzzling and Guzzling (a Novem)

(Night)

…..He lies asleep
…..There, cozy warm
…..Upon my feet

(Morning)

……….He waits calmly
……….For breakfast and
……….Walkies to come

(Afternoon)

……………He has coffee
……………To guzzle up
……………Licking it dry

(Sweets) … an extra stanza, just for fun!

He Loves Cheesecake
The crusty bit
Under the sponge

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Shangri La, Volume 8. Beyond Flawed Paws

FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below

Hello, dear readers and followers, as you might know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at # 31, because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
But the booklet formats are a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called “Shangri La” which is the name of my little Villa, and is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
Incredibly, I now have “1711” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
(on my bookshelf I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems … )

Click on >> Here. for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 8, Beyond Flawed Paws

Beyond Flawed Paws

We are flying north before winter
I am on the edge of the flock
The outside feather of the throng
Away from the main group.
But close enough
To sense that I belong

Even with my tired and aging wings
The congregation allows me to tag along
And they caringly bunch together
Sheltering me when the wind is strong

We are a humble and united colony
Paternally migrating in perfect harmony
As part of nature’s cycle of eternity

We soar above the flawed paws
Of the world’s sparring humanity
And beyond those sharp claws
Of their tragic and panicky community

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Jaded Rewrites

Jaded Rewrites

faded half-moon

between the clouds

at high noon

washed out skies

between yesterday and tomorrow

hackneyed eyes

becalmed nights

between dusk and dawn

jaded rewrites

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Ingrid Wrote a Poem for Me

Creative Geelong Arts Festival

At my poetry books stall, and just up from me, the Piano Girl played.

“Creative Occupation” was at Creative Geelong, MAY’D Arts Festival

I looked for the Promoter, the Poet, the Printer, and the Publisher… I followed the red arrows, and I was there … “We so look forward to making poetry with you”.

#artsandculturegeelong #poetryart #interactiveinstallation #creativegeelong #creativeoccupation

Ingrid Wrote a Poem for Me

The poet (Ingrid)

“Hello Ivor”
Wow, she knows my name
“Stand on the special black spot
and I’ll type a poem for you”

I stand on the special black spots

Then from her old yellow typewriter
Words magically curled
Off the antique roller
And when she finished
She handed me the paper tape
“A poem for you”

My hand-typed poem by Ingrid

“Hi dear, how do you know me
and what is your name”
“I’m Ingrid, and I read your poems
on the Creative Geelong Instagram site
and I love your writings”

The printing process

“Thank you for your kindness, Ingrid,
and you have made my amazing day
here at the Festival even betterer!”

The published poems suspended above the Festival crowd

All Books. Now Available At:

Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
11am-3pm

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024