Celebrating the 50th year of Bell Park Cricket Club last night. Fifty years of memories and everlasting friendships.
Glassy Eyed
Saturday evening
The midnight hour
Whizzed by
Unbeknown
To the celebrating crowd
My friends are overly generous
And continue to make sure
My schooner is always full
I was keeping count
But that foolish tally
Is now nullified
And I am highly rarified
Sunday morning
Seven hours later
I am feeling brittlely vitrified
And glassy eyed
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
One of best Haiku, according to some of my fellow poets here in Geelong, which I penned in June 2020
Featured Photo Above: A painting by Carole Steven
One Land (a Haiku) Tullawalla, page 119
Upon our torn earth
Let’s sit around the camp fire
One circle of sand
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
The article I posted on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today >>
https://godoggocafe.com/2022/11/25/throwback-friday-white-pony-by-ivor-steven/
I’m very fond of this poem from October 2019, which appears in both of my books, “Tullawalla” (page 149), and “Perceptions” (page 1).
Featured Photo Above: taken by Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2019/10/13/the-halloween-template/
White Pony. (Tullawalla, page 149, and Perceptions, page 1)
If I were to be reincarnated
I am sure I would be a tall white pony
A flashy show jumping horse
Who knows his arduous course
Hurdling coloured bars
And clearing hard brush fences
A swimmer I have always been
So the perilous water hazard
Would be a simple breeze
A shadow passed over with ease
As my reflection in the pond
Magically vanished under my rider’s wand
Turning sharply on the pitch
Nearing the finishing stretch
I see more obstacles ahead
The doubles and triples, I dread
Without fear, forward I bound
Up over and gliding down
My red-haired rider, she’s blushing and proud
Hearing loud applause, we bow to the crowd
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
The Tanka is a relatively new poem format for me and I think “A Window Stain” that I wrote back in January 2021 was my first Tanka.
A Window Stain, (a Tanka)
Evening tears ebb through
the window of last year’s stain
Fear closes the latch
Tonight, the moon is brighter
Today the pane is clearer
Tullawalla is Available From;
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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Rudolf meets Frankie
Now, five weeks before Christmas
World peace is their wish
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
This is a piece from August 2019 that I have reworded and given the poem a new Title.
Who will Be Left to Grow the New Trees?
How many Waterloo’s do we have to see
Before all the battles are lost at sea
How many children, have to cry and flee
Before humanity begins to listen and agree
Our future depends on a new recipe
A blend of peace, harmony, and new trees
Tullawalla is Available From;
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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Today’s poem is one that I wrote while attending a “Writing Circle” meeting, hosted by the talented and gracious, Ali Grimshaw … If you are interested in attending one of her fabulous on-line “Zoom Sessions”, you can visit her site by clicking on this link
>> https://flashlightbatteries.blog/
Featured Image Above; my photo of my computer’s start-up screen this morning, from Windows Microsoft
Arousing “Itmims”
I hear a thunderous storm
Rumbling above
I see a chromatic sky
Illuminating my yard
I feel my romantic dreams
Arousing my Itmims* spacecraft
There ready and waiting
For time to chime in
My next mysterious rhyme
However
Time hears no commands
And silently resets her sundial’s hands
To reignite dawn’s golden strands
*Itmims: “Ivors Time Machine In Micro Space“
Tullawalla is Available From;
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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Hello, fellow poetry lovers, you will not be disappointed by Annette’s wonderful book or her fabulous blog site
It is the official release day! I’m honored and grateful that my friend, Candice Louisa Daquin, “gently” nudged me to do this. Additionally, I am indebted to Candice for believing in me and for her diligent work in editing. Thank you, Candice. You are one of the most giving people I know. I want to thank Tara Caribou of Raw Earth Ink who has been patient with this novice at every step in the publishing process.
https://www.lulu.com/shop/annette-kalandros/the-gift-of-mercy/paperback/product-qv9e7w.html?page=1&pageSize=4
https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Mercy-Annette-Kalandros/dp/B0BJYJTG5Z
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-gift-of-mercy-annette-kalandros/1142590195
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63030682-the-gift-of-mercy
I also owe a debt of gratitude to Susi Bocks,
Ivor Steven, and M. Brazfield who were willing to provide advance reviews on short notice. Thank you so much.
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In May this year, I attended an Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop at the Foundry Studio & Gallery. Today’s Poem/Tanka is another piece I wrote from that day, and which I have not posted on my site before now.
Featured Image Above: My photograph of, Lee McGrath’s fascinating painting, “Winter Flame Tree” (Acrylic on canvas)
A Sad Winter Flame (a Tanka)
Dismayed, how to stop
Leaning against the hard rain
Unseasonal pain
Sodden, a sad winter flame
Downtrodden, a stained Ukraine
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
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