I happy to report that “Tullawalla” on Amazon eBook sales, still seems to be doing well on the Australian & Oceania ratings today … at #6 on ‘Hot New Release’ … and at #31 on the ‘Best Sellers in Australian & Oceania Poetry’ …
Still waiting patiently (or impatiently) for Tullawalla to get back into print at Barnes & Noble …
I know our time will come soon
I know Tullawalla is ready to play her tune
Ready to fly back from her orbiting moon
Ivor Steven (c) May 2021
A big thank you from Ivor, and Kerri, to Colleen, Eugenia, and Heather for their fabulous reviews of ‘our’ book “Tullawalla” … our hearts are overwhelmed with joy …
C F Brown 5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Emotion. Reviewed in the United States on April 22nd, 2021
Mr. Steven fills these pages with his passions and his love. Travel with him through his dream inspired and love inspired poetry and prose.
amanda1 (Eugenia) 5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely and Heartfelt. Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2021
A beautifully illustrated book of poetry and prose. Heartfelt words of love, inspiration, and melancholia reflected in each and every poem by the author, Ivor Steven.
Heather Hancock 4.0 out of 5 stars A Mosaic of Poetry. Reviewed in Canada on May 20, 2021
This collection brings the reader into Australia and a life lived fully. This is a mosaic collection of a lifetime of experiences and emotions.
Ivor Steven (c) May 2021
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
www.books2read.com/Tullawalla
Today here is another poem, that didn’t make the final list, and was ‘cut’ from my new Book “Tullawalla”… Maybe I thought the poem “Five Shades of Grey” was not substantial enough .. !!
Five Shades of Grey
Daylight turns into night
Ravens scatter in mid-flight
Dark clouds overlay
Five shades of grey
Thor’s hammer roars
His spark of fire, soars
Fiercely a flaming bolt strike’s
Piercing frightened psyches
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
Today I went through my initial notes that I made while selecting poems for my book, and it appears that I ‘culled’ 25 poems, that didn’t make the final list, and here is another poem that was ‘cut’ from my new Book “Tullawalla”
Waiting
The earth is waiting
Sick of human’s, and their time wasting
Waiting for their promised cheers
Waiting for less destructive years
Will they give her resolutions of better times?
Will they read, Thor’s neon signs
Will they notice, a smoke covered sun?
Will they be able to breath the air, as a united one?
The earth cannot watch, nor wait
While human’s feed their own greedy plate
Why are they celebrating?
Like blind fools, that are always pretending
As if nothing is going wrong
They can hear the whales crying songs
They can see the polar caps are melting
They can taste the venom of government’s lying
Ivor Steven (c) Jan 2020
My new book “Tullawalla”, is due to be released on 30th March, and for preorder, here are the links
Barnes and Noble.. Tullawalla by Ivor Steven, Kerri Costello, Hardcover | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)
Amazon.. Amazon.com: Tullawalla eBook: Steven, Ivor, Costello, Kerri, Harris, patricia: Books
I think I have given you all enough sneak preview poems from my ‘Book’, so over the next few weeks I’ll be presenting some of my poems that nearly made their appearance in “Tullawalla”, and ironically Disappointments didn’t make the cut…
Life is full of disappointments
Of our physical and mental laments
There is the disgruntled type
When we are stood down
Years of loyalty all for naught
Leaving you downcast and distraught
There is the disheartened letdown
When we are stood-up again
Yesterday’s promise, today’s voiceless ghost
Leaving you an empty chair and sadly aghast
There is the frustrated fiasco
When we are stood upon
Months of being a washout and a physical mess
Leaving your body punished and almost useless
Dismayed and in disarray
When we are misunderstood
Decades of disenchantment, but undefeated we stay
Knowing we all experience disappointments on life’s causeway
Ivor Steven (c) August 2019
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A Chapter List
Way back in time, during the middle of the ‘Pandemic Age’, there was a dormant ‘Poet’s Egg’ hibernating and waiting to hatch. In the middle of this ‘Era’, the populous had to endure long periods of ‘Lockdown’ and ‘Isolation’, and it was then the ‘Poet’s Egg’ started to hatch and begin to see the light day, and mature slowly in the confines of a cosy courtyard. ‘And In the Beginning’ under the poet’s verandah, ‘A Chapter List’ was created. “From Little Things Big Things Grow”. So without further ado, here is a sneak preview of my ‘Chapter List’
Tullawalla – A Meeting Place
Chapter 1.
Nature, Trees, And The Air We Breathe
Chapter 2.
My Empty Hands Are Full Of Memories And Rhymes
Chapter 3.
Dragons, Wizards, Faeries, And A Space Craft
Chapter 4.
Humour, Wit, Sarcasm, And Christmas Stories
Chapter 5.
Observations – The Sound Of Silence
Chapter 6.
Travel – Air, Land, And Sea
Chapter 7.
The Family Tree And Dream-time Stories
Chapter 8.
Haiku’s And The Leftover Champagne
Chapter 9.
Not Horror But Weird
Chapter 10.
Beyond The Blue Horizon
Epilogue
Words Of Mine
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
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