A big thank you to Lisa from ‘Prolific Pulse’ for having me on her “Poet Talk” show yesterday, and if you watch the video I think you’ll agree we both had an enjoyable time….
A Box of Old Crayons
The Wednesday Challenge on Weekly Prompts is the word: Retirement. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> HERE . Although my poem below doesn’t mention ‘Retirement’ directly, I think my words may be read as a poem about living in later years of retirement…
A Box of Old Crayons
Sometimes I stared at an empty table
And wondered if I would ever be able
To turn the fading power back on
I was unsure about another swansong
But each time I became lost and wrong
I found another box of old crayons
And from here and there words did flow
Nurturing my dry mirages to regrow
Replenished by the thawing mountain snow
Nature’s river rejoined my ocean’s undertow
Again duplicating my life of highs and lows
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
Violets and a Purple Cyclamen
This Saturday the Weekend Challenge from ‘Weekly Prompts’ is March’s colour, Purple. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here. My photos and the below poem is my response to their ‘Monthly Colour Challenge’.
Violets and a Purple Cyclamen
My morning courtyard is aglow
Below the garden’s colourful shadows
Of a newly blooming purple cyclamen
And the forever flowering bougainvillea
They are my sentinels for her hanging basket
Our wedding flower of Drooping Violets
Casting forever memories upon my writing booklet
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
Lost Within Uluru’s Dream-time Chasms
Release date for Issue I — Free Verse Revolution:
And I am very pleased to announce that my poem “Lost Within Uluru’s Dream-time Chasms” was selected to be published in FREE VERSE REVOLUTION’S very first Magazine, Issue 1: hebe (the fountain of youth) and I am looking forward to reading all the other writers entries next week. You can visit their latest promo updates by clicking on this link > Issue I: Deepti G. – Free Verse Revolution:
Lost Within Uluru’s Dream-time Chasms
The expedition’s camel train is leaving town
Even though the rain-spirits are thundering down
Undaunted they are travelling to the ancient rock
Where time was born before the sun-clock
At the sacred monolith created by nature’s gods
Eons before earth’s crawling arthropods
Now only ghostly moans echo from Uluru’s dream-time chasms
Warning intruders about the Fountain of Youth’s guardian assassins
The exhausted archaeologists were last seen probing deeper
Frantically seeking the lost treasure of mythology’s oldest sleeper
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
Me and My Kite (a Haiku)
I’m walking on air
My old heads in the clouds
Will my kite fly too
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
A Beautiful Red Flower
This week’s Wednesday Challenge, on Weekly Prompts is the word BEAUTIFUL. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here. Below is my beautiful response to the prompt…
A Beautiful Red Flower
Auburn was her hair
A ruby Day-lily
A red flame Begonia
Crimson and warm
Auburn was her hair
A scarlet Geranium
A maroon Bougainvillea
A soft vermilion art form
Ivor Steven (c) March 2021
Promote Yourself Monday, March 1, 2021
Dear readers and followers, here’s a great opportunity for your writings to be read by other writers, and also to find and meet other writers. You are very welcome to participate, come along and visit our writer friendly site…..by clicking on the link at the bottom of this article >>
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Welcome toPromote Yourself Monday. All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to postonelink to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.
If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.
Tullawalla, #22, Who Is Responsible?
Hello dear readers and followers. There’s only 30 days until the launch of my new ‘Book’ , and despite my promotional commitments, amazingly, I’ve still managed to produce my “Twenty Second Tullawalla” Poetry Booklet….. For new readers that don’t know about these booklets, they are basically the reason why I write poetry. I produce these ‘home-printed’ booklets for the sole purpose of raising funds for my favourite charity organisation, the MS Society, in Australia via the MS Charity Shop here in Geelong. And actually all money’s I receive for any of my poetry .via, submissions, I donate to the MS Society…. I’m proud to announce, that the sale of my “Tullawalla Booklets”, have now gone pass $1400.00, … to all the lovely readers, who have donated, to help achieve such a wonderful amount, a big heartfelt thank you, from “us” and the MS Society … …..Amazingly, there is now a total of “911 poems”, in my collection/series of 22 Tullawalla Booklets. This booklet is finally completed, and ready for sale now !! As always, they are available for purchase, either as a hard copy or a PDF format….. All proceeds go to the MS Charity Shop, here in Geelong West….. Please contact me here through my website page and I can chat about arrangements from there…. Oh, the booklet is called “Tullawalla”: “Who Is Responsible?”… …. And here is the link to my website >> https://ivors20.wordpress.com
Ivor Steven (c) March 1st 2021
Release date for Issue I — Free Verse Revolution:
Congratulations and well done at “Free Verse Revolution”.. and I am looking forward to Issue 1. 😄
12 days and it will be yours to read and enjoy! Below is a reminder of our incredible Issue I contributors: Donate
Waltz Me to the Tune of a Happy Mandolin
Today I’m presenting more of my comments, that I post on other writers articles when I am doing my blogging.. Here below, are words I’ve sent to, ~M~Michelle, Colleen, and Ingrid … I’ve made a few slight word changes and arranged the stanza’s in an order, so as to read like one ‘poem’ , and I think the different “tunes” have blended together ok..
Waltz Me to the Tune Of a Happy Mandolin
Open your eyes a little wider
Let your heart feel a little lighter
See the blue sky appear brighter
And there upon the ocean floats the big blue sky
Reflecting the white caps of nearby mountains
Where the melting snow feeds the oceans’ rivers
Which meander across the lands’ grassy plains
And we look to drop anchor
In the calm of a safe harbour
Away from our daily helter-skelter
Hoping to find that peaceful shelter
But a truly happy mandolin
Is soulfully played from within
Ivor Steven (c) Feb 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
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