Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Grazing (a Haiku)

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Grazing (a Haiku)

“This’s the life”, my friend.
“Green pastures and a palace
to rest our heads in”

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven © May 2025

Throwback Friday, The Woman In Me

Me, sitting on Mum’s knee. … L to R, Carole, Aunties Elizabeth & Pearl, & Grandma

Grandma and her 3 daughters. … My mum (left) and her lady relatives

G’day readers, it’s Friday morning, the 9th of May, here in Australia, the day of my mother’s birthday and my wife’s funeral day, and it’ll be Mother’s Day on Sunday. Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from September 2019.

The Woman In Me

Inside every man
There is a woman

The mother of his soul
The lady of his heart
The kindness in his touch
The passion in his blood
The woman who fostered
The way he shows love

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books

OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven © May 2025

Beautiful and Bright

Written for Eugi’s; MoonWashedWeekly-Prompt-May6,2025

Beautiful and Bright

I was daydreaming
Of something beautiful and bright
While I was watching the golden sunset
And admiring the Sun’s dazzling light

I was thinking
About how time
Metamorphoses during the night
Between sunset and sunrise
And I was wondering
About the world’s absence of surprise

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books

OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven © May 2025

A Cloud (a Haiku)

A Cloud (a Haiku)

One white fluffy cloud
Mothering the dying tree
With a cotton crown

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven © May 2025

About Today

** Written for Sadje’s WDYS #287. To visit her fabulous site, please click on >> Here
And she presented 2 images for us to use either one or both as our inspiration! … I chose to use both image prompts in my poem

About Today

Our morning walk was uphill
And into a gusty wind
The trees were bowing to one side
And the wispy clouds went zooming by

Too windy for Frankie’s fluffy ears
Too windy for the birds to fly in
Too windy for the moon to see her star
Too windy for my teary eyes

Ivor Steven © May 2025

A Torn Tune

A Torn Tune

I’ve been resting
and recovering
now it is time
to resume the climb
and escape this cocoon
with its torn tune

this afternoon
there is a half-moon
I’ll refill my writing sword
cut the tethering cord
and fly upward
toward the unexplored
to meet my ultimate reward

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books

OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Join Some Of The Poets From Natures Discovered!

“On April 30th, we had the opportunity to get together to talk to each other, some for the first time! I enjoyed seeing, meeting, and talking to the people of Natures Discovered!
Go team! 😊 Enjoy the video, everyone!” … Susi Bocks, editor.
Whoops, I joined a few minutes late! … it was 3.00 am Thursday in Geelong!

Here are the two pieces that I read …

Finality

after we have consumed
the leftover wine
and desecrated the sundial’s shadow
the dark-side of the moon
will finally recede from view

Co-existence

Beneath the trees and bushes
Lives an underground network
Prospering on giving and receiving

Ivor Steven (c) May 2025

Yellow Into Crimson, Over and Over

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Monthly Colour Challenge for May is the colour Pink!
To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here
My poem is about ‘Crimson’, but I think it’s a darker shade of “Pink”

Yellow Into Crimson, Over and Over

Minutes before
. . . . . The drapes are drawn
And moments after
. . . . . The final curtain

The sunset’s
. . . . . Harlequin horizon
Mystically mutates
. . . . . From yellow to crimson

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Remembering, May 3rd

“This wall, built of bricks
Breaks my spirit and my bones
Life’s hurdles are hard” … This Wall (a Senryu May 3rd, 2025)

Arriving and Leaving, Visiting Her

arriving
via the cemetery gate
holding her flowers
hands quivering
heart quickens
bowing silently
reminiscing
smiling
wondering why
closing time
and visiting time
co-exist in life

leaving
via the cemetery path
renewing goodbyes
crying silently
breathing slowly
smiling
wondering why
closing time
and visiting time
co-exist in life

Ivor Steven (c) May 3rd, 2025

Thanks For the Dance, or My Foot Went Numb (a Rhyming Tu-aiku)

Thanks For the Dance, or My Foot Went Numb (a Rhyming Tu-aiku)

My fingers are thumbs
I cannot pick up the crumbs
Nor pluck the ripe plums

My right foot went numb
Her eternal dance did come
Life is a hum-drum

Ivor Steven (c) May 3rd, 2025