Category: Poems

One Go!

Over at Weekly Prompts the Wednesday Challenge is the word: Weather . You may visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here

My poem, although not about the ‘weather’, the ‘Sun and snow’ do get a mentioned …




One Go!


All easier said than done

That is what I said to mum

But now I know

Between our days

Under the sun

And that final day

Buried in snow

We only get one go









Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com


Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

A Pink Crescent Moon

“The Colour Pink symbolizes love, nurture, and compassion”





A Pink Crescent Moon




Up there

In the rose

Coloured

Evening sky

The Crescent moon

Donned

A pink bandanna

Tonight


The scarf’s message

Caught my eye

Like a neon sign

“I am the Sun’s

dream-time light

transmitting

love and compassion

to all who praise

pink tonight”









Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com



Ivor Steven (c) January 2024


An Ending Before the End, or Beyond the Oasis

Featured Image Above: A small section of “Street Art”, and what I saw in the centre of the original larger photo of artwork, below

“And in the end” I wondered what was the artist’s underlying message, and in my imagination, this poem, is my abstract interpretation


An Ending Before the End, or Beyond the Oasis


An unsinkable planet
Ran aground in a desert

Did you see the end coming?
Maybe I have reached the end

Here
At the end of my quill
My blue ink well is dry
And dead cobwebs
Fill my window sill







Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

After Midday

Featured Image Above: Frankie gives me that sad brown eyed doggie stare as I walk out the front door to go to the Book Fair at 7.30 this morning.

Setting our table displays up at 8.30 am … I’m ready for the 9.00 am start




After Midday


I’m not walking barefoot anymore

My old paws are too tender and sore

After attending the local bookstore

And there is no need to keep score

While time allows me to use the front door








Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

I Found the Key in Shanghai  

Over at Weekly Prompts the Weekend Challenge is the word: Key. You can visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here






I Found the Key in Shanghai 


 
 
Will this be the key?  

To my writer’s beehive 

I am excited 

Expectations are high 

I am nervous 

An unknown poetry guy 


I am fully prepared 

The tummy is full of humble pie 

I am almost ready 

Do I wear a black tie?  

Or jeans, and a Leonard Cohen T-shirt  

That I found in Shanghai




 









Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

“A Poet’s Grotto”, is up at Spillwords Magazine

I am ecstatic that my poem “A Poet’s Grotto”, has been accepted and published in Spillwords Magazine today, and I am very grateful to the editor, Dagmara for selecting my piece … Please go over and visit my poem at Spillwords and if you wish, leave a “💖” for my article, by clicking on this link >> A Poet’s grotto, poetry by Ivor Steven at Spillwords.com

Please Note: featured image above, supplied by Spillwords Press


A Poet’s Grotto

My writer’s studio, is the littered part of my bedroom
A paper tiger’s haven, has become a messy grotto
I am ruefully feeling muddled and befuddled
Pieces of paper and cardboard kites
Scatter the atmosphere like withered autumn leaves
Falling upon my untidy and cluttered archives

Scribbled words are yet to be decoded
Foolscap pages overwritten and eroded
Undefined and unlisted
Out of focus and twisted
Upside down and inside out
Uncategorised and full of self-doubt
My desk, once a dreamy picture postcard
Looks like a moonscape’s junkyard

My poetic writing quill has been the mythological ruler
Showing no regard for my bedroom’s demeanour
I am sleeping covered in my hurdy gurdy verses
It is time to cull the pretentious cosmic curses
Free myself of all unpublished jabberwocky
And let my imagination create a new poetic hard copy










Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

Throwback Friday, Lost on the River

Since I am attending the Indie Author Book Fair as a “participant”, this Sunday, I thought it would be appropriate to present a poem from my Tullawalla Book, “Lost on the River”, page 123.






Lost on The River


Rain is pouring down

Like a river from the sky

Ground is becoming drowned

I am lost on the river

I cannot be found

A wall of water is pulling me out to sea

How will I ever reach high ground

Then a tree branch grabs me

A man’s voice yells, “Stick around”

In the blinding deluge, I cannot see

The man’s saving hand guides me

Drenched, shaking, I am dragged aground

I feel secure with his arms around me

“Don’t worry little fella, you’re safe and sound”

I pant, and lick his face from ear to ear

I was lost on the river, hell-bound

But now he has saved me

And beside him, this will be my town






Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

“The Unreachable Horizon”, is in this Week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, the Coffee House Writers Magazine had a 2 week break for the holiday season, but we are back, and I am again writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “The Unreachable Horizon”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> The Unreachable Horizon – Coffee House Writers



Music Video: Poets of the Fall, “Beyond The Horizon






Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

My Poem, “Flowers in the Sky”, was accepted for publication in “Cadence”

Great News. Yesterday I received an acceptance for my submission to Cadence: Life’s Poetic Rhythms, an upcoming anthology (for Spring 2024), from Prolific Pulse Press.

They’re open to “more submissions” until the 31st of January, so I encourage all my poet friends to offer the Editor, Lisa, some joyful poetry. Details via this link >> https://www.prolificpulse.com/

Featured Image Above: A photo collage of my “Flowers in the Sky”










Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

My Lounge Suite (a Haiku) Written by, Frankie

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Colour Challenge for January is: Purple . Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here

Please Note: All attached photos of ‘me’, were taken by, ‘my best friend’





My Lounge Suite (a Haiku), Written by, Frankie



Come sit beside me

Scratch my ear, and shake my paw

My home is your home








Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’


AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com
  

Ivor Steven (c) January 2024