Antony’s lyrics express my emotions exquisitely
Ivor Steven (c) May 9th 2023
Category: Poems
Reflections and Revelations, edited by Susi Bocks
Once again thank you to Susi, >>https://iwriteher.com/2023/04/26/reflections-revelations-has-published/ for selecting my poems in her outstanding Anthology, “Reflections and Revelations, The Short of It, Vol 2” … Today I am presenting the second page (33) of my pieces from her fascinating Collection of Short poems and prose … which I have scanned directly from copy of the anthology and attached below …
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Hustle and Bustle (a Tanka)
Wishing my Philadelphia cousins a safe trip home today. ✈
Hustle and Bustle (a Tanka)
Excitement arrived
My normal was disrupted
Organised chaos
With, Penguins, Kookaburras
And Tasmanian Devils
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Unforgettable
Yesterday
Was one of those days
At lunchtime
I went to the Box Office Cafe
I forgot
And left without paying
For my coffee and cake
In the afternoon
I had a doctor’s appointment
I forgot
And left without paying
For the Fee at reception
After Dinner
I caught a bus into town
I forgot
That the ‘open mic’ night
Occurs on the second Thursday of each month
This morning
I watch the sunshine
Flickering on her handmade curtains
I remember
And I relight her candle again
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Throwback Friday, Today’s Fragments (Revised)
Today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem is from my remembrance week a year ago
“Below; I have formed one poem out of four Senryu that I wrote this morning, and I have many fractured thoughts within my soul, a decade after Carole’s passing on May 3rd 2012 at 1.15pm …“
Today’s Fragments (Revised)
(A four Senryu poem)
I am who I am
I can’t be another man
She’s my hologram
I sat beside her
Next to yesterday’s campfire
Embers in the wind
A red flame flickers
Above her celestial star
My eternal light
On my island home
Sea mist falls across my arms
Completion awaits
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Under The Snow
A special poem I wrote, after I’d taken my Lady to hospital for the last time, on the day of her 65th birthday, eleven years ago. Hello Carole, and I wonder if you still wonder that I wonder, about wandering on your celestial star…….
Under The Snow.
We emanate to a birthday.
We deflate to a final day.
Birthdays, they all come, they all go.
Birthdays, in the sunshine, under the snow.
Birthdays, slow to mature, quickly an aeon.
Birthdays, before we are born, after we are gone.
Birthdays, hanging on by a breath.
Birthdays, nailed to a cross ’til death.
What’s it all mean to be alive and cry.
What’s it all mean to live and to die.
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Ivor Steven (c) May 4th 2023
Here I Am, Eleven Years On
Today, May 3rd, is the eleventh Anniversary of Carole’s passing
Here I Am, Eleven Years On
here I am shuffling on
the same old yellow brick road
that I wandered on eleven years ago
here I am running from
the same old dark storm
that I escaped from eleven years ago
here I am blushing under
the same old halfmoon
that I sheltered under eleven years ago
here I am dreaming about
the same old red head
that I dreamed about eleven years ago
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Ivor Steven (c) May 3rd 2023
Tasmania, Day 5
Today is our last day in Tassie, but after breakfast and packing our bags we had plenty of time to visit Hobart’s unique “Mona Museum/Gallery”
https://mona.net.au/museum/about
The view from Mona’s ‘underground enterance’, across the Derwent River with Mt Wellingtonin the background … the first item I saw, a fascinating ‘waterfall and light’ display.
A display that suited my imagination.
A Belgium artist’s vast array of whirring tubes and bags mimic the workings of the human digestive system. The apparatus is fed food and produces poo.
I was ‘roped’ into the ‘white library’
Displays that were interesting for me
A painting for ‘Frankie’ … and appropriately ‘Autumn’ leaves
All the installations and artwork were intriguing and open to your own interpretation
We had spent 4 hours at the Museum and was nearly 4.00PM and as clouds settled over Mt Wellington, it was time for us to leave and catch our Flight back to Melbourne
“Goodbye to beautiful Tasmania” and I hope you all enjoyed the tour as much as we did …
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
It’s Time To Leave Tasmania
It’s time to tidy up my mess
Clean up the room and get dressed
It’s time to pack my suitcase
Fill the travel bag and vacate this place
It’s time to put on my famous rocker shoes
And walk away from this dream come true
It’s time to say heartfelt goodbyes
To these wonderful Philadelphia guys
It’s time for final hugs and kisses
Sad farewells and best wishes
It’s time for my usual emotional tears
That have been stored away for years
Ivor Steven (c) May
Tasmania, Day 4
Today was another important part of our trip to Tasmania, when we went to the Port Arthur Historic Site, the location of the infamous Port Arthur convict Penitentiary, where our great great grandfather spent 14 years of his life, after which, he moved to the Northwest coast area of Tasmania, where he married and raised the first “Steven” family of Australians in the 1850’s …
At entrance of the historic site… and firstly we went on a cruise around Carnarvon Bay leaving from Mason Cove
The cruise crew, Terri, Maureen, Lee, Jeff, and Nola … Mason Cove and the Penitentiary
The grim looking Penitentiary building
Reading some of the stark history and the bleakness of the 4-storer building
The cells were only 4’ wide ….
The Penitentiary was devastated by fire in 1897 leaving only the masonry walls and barred windows … the exercise yard
The penal colony covered a huge area … whoops … “we are behind bars”
Maureen and Nola up above the Guard Tower
That concludes a nostalgic look into the often unmentioned part of our family’s intriguing history
Ivor Steven (c). April 2023
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