Dad’s Old Writing Desk
Typing words on my brother’s laptop
Sitting at my dad’s old writing desk
Here I am surrounded
By a magical sea of real friends
Who are smiling at my memories
Floating on moonlit walls
Glowing above the paintings
Created by my dream-time girl
Before she departed
This mystifying world
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
Hello dear readers and followers, as you may know, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Strong Undertows” is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to read my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
https://coffeehousewriters.com/strong-undertows/
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
The year faltered and stumbled by
After Santa’s last reindeer traveled the sky
Months of ‘covid’ blocked all roads to Rome
That prevented families from going home
When the festive season did arrive
Finally there were real hugs and high fives
Rejoicing among warm hearts and smiling faces
Standing cozily beside those old familiar fireplaces
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
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New Windows
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The day after
Flying around this old tree
Life is slowly coming back to me
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I step away from my “Itmims” sleigh
To embrace the new world
And give celebrations another whirl
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With a life full of joy
My journey continues
To dance through
Lockdown’s open windows
Ivor Steven (c) December 26th 2021
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
One of my poems with me flying around in my “Itmims” space-craft … that I posted on “Go Dog Go Cafe” today .. …
My Christmas poem from December 2018, when I was allowed to go home for Christmas after spending two months in Hospital, during which time my imagination had created my escapism space-craft– Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space.
, A Starry ChristmasEve
“Look, up there”, high in the night sky
“No!”, It’s not the sleigh and reindeer
What is that mysterious red space craft?
Zooming through the moon-shadow clouds
“There again”, the crowd declares
“Yes! it’s that alien shipItmims”
Why tonight, when the airways are so busy?
With so many precious gifts to be delivered
“But wait”, the alien’s steering away towards the north
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Ivor Steven (c) October 2018
G’day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I’m an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from…
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I can feel the sea
When I hear to the trees
Embracing the sky
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
The featured imaged above is photo I took today, because coincidently, I happen to be reading a book of Emily Dickinson’s poems … and thank you to my neice Kerri, (a graphic design artist) for cleverly enhancing the image, so as to make the words legible .. (my original photo was deplorable due to bright reflections from the midday sun)
Dear Emily
Your mystical words speak to me
About yesteryear
And beyond today
Where smiles and dimples
Live within bandaged moments
Of my soul
Your book describes the universe
From Celestial lists
To below nature’s dome
Where birds and butterflies
Live within unruffled moments
Of the sky
Your worldly wisdom fills my dreams
From babbling brooks
To mountainous oceans
Where imagination flows freely
And lives within loving moments
Of my heart
Ivor Steven (c) December 2021
I am pleased and proud to announce that my two ‘Christmas’ poems ‘Australian Reindeer & A Friend Calls’, were published in the Positive Words Magazine, December Issue, and thank you to the Editor, Sandra, for selecting my poems… For further information about this fabulous Australian magazine, visit their site via this link > https://positivewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/
Attached below, I have scanned the poems directly from my copy of the Magazine
Australian Reindeer
A Friend Calls
Ivor Steven (c) December 21st 2021
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