Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Throwback Friday, Moon Shadows (a Tanka)

There was a Full Moon earlier in the week, and appropriately I have chosen “Moon Shadows” as my ‘Throwback Friday’ poem for today’s article.

Moon Shadows (a Tanka)

Both the evening moon
And the bright afternoon moon
Decorate my room
With gray slithery shadows
That dance across my pillows

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 (c) January 2025Posted

Love Versus the World

Love Versus the World

Welcome to my world
Where the sun sets in golden swirls
And the moon glows like a pearl

Welcome to my garden
Where my sunflowers wear golden cardigans
And nature is my seasonal guardian

Welcome to my haven of love
Where my soul caresses her golden glove
And her shining star cares for me from above

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 (c) January 2025Posted

Creative Geelong, Market Day, This Saturday 18th January

Artist Market & Open Studios

Hosted monthly within Centrepoint Arcade the market showcases our members and makers from across the region.
Enjoy the friendly and relaxed atmosphere, undercover and filled with light, offering a broad range of items including clothing, paintings, illustrations, photography, jewellery, vintage clothing, books and much more.
Many of our in-house studios will have their doors open PLUS our May’d Shop will be open too!

Saturday, 18th January
11am-3pm
132 Little Malop Street
Centrepoint Arcade
Creative Geelong

FREE & UNDERCOVER!!

Ivor Steven (c) January 2025

Sweet Ladybird (a Tanka)

** Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word Ageism. To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here

** Also at Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings
>> https://amanpan.com/2025/01/14/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-writers-choice-5/

simplicity
in an uneasy world
praise unforgotten calm

Your Weekly Prompt – Any word or line in the above poem can be used for the prompt

Sweet Ladybird (a Tanka)

There on my donna
I hear a sweet ladybird
Serenading me
Coyly smiling she calmy
Invited me into bed

Ivor Steven (c) January 2025

Quintessence

Definitions:

quintessence:
noun:   the most typical example or representative of a type
noun:   the purest and most concentrated essence of something
noun:   the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies

florescent; flowering; bursting into flower
iridescent; the visual property of something having a milky brightness
pearlescent; resembling a pearl; having a pearly lustre or sheen
opalescent; colourless or white like an opal, or changing colour like an opal.
candescent; glowing or starting to glow with heat
evanescent; gradually disappears from sight or memory.
Senescent; characteristic of old age

Quintessence

Above my florescent sunflowers
Twilight’s iridescent sky
Of a pearlescent sunset
And an opalescent moonrise
Animated my candescent world
And the evanescent wave of light
Revived my senescent eyes

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 (c) January 2025Posted

The New World’s “AI” Design

Please Note: Derrick Knight took all the attached photos and allowed me to reproduce them on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2016/10/28/heard-on-the-telegraph/

The New World’s “AI” Design

The ancient wheels of time
Have been mysteriously left behind
In refuse paddocks of weeds and slime
Oh, what a mortifying crime

Has society overstepped the line
Spoke-less, with no rhythm or rhyme
Have we become deaf, dumb, and blind
Unable to handle the future’s slippery climb
Without using the New World’s AI design

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)

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 (c) January 2025Posted

“Under One Roof”, the Indie Author Book Fair

The above 6 photos, were taken by Claudia Collins, my neighbouring book stall author, and a fellow ‘Geelong Writer’

I had a delightful time meeting many other Authors at today’s Book Fair, although a midday summer storm somewhat curtailed attendance.

The below 6 photos, were taken by myself.

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 (c) January 2025

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Moon

Today’s Waxing Gibbous Moon

We are under the Cafe’s verandah
enjoying our cake and coffee
and soaking up the summery atmosphere

Enthusiastically waiting
for the midafternoon moonrise,
the blue sky’s attractive half-moon

Hopefully, the gathering clouds
will dissipate soon
and allow us to view
another phenomenal daytime moon

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 (c) January 2025

Birds, Swift and Small ( a Rhyming Haiku)

“Birds have commandeered my poetic imagination lately.“

Birds, Swift and Small (a Rhyming Haiku)

The tree’s bashful eyes
Colourful gems of the sky
So, swiftly they fly

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

Amazon >> Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
Lulu Books >> Perceptions (lulu.com)

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 (c) January 2025

Throwback Friday, Birds on Fences

Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from February 2023 and appears in Chapter 1 of my third book, Until Eyes Hear Sound, titled ‘Little Creatures and the Birds.’
“Birds have commandeered my poetic imagination lately.“

Birds on Fences

What side of the fence
do you sit on?
Birds perched on fences
look down on the earth

The grass is not always greener
on the other side
Is there ever
a winning side
or a losing side

Worms burrow holes
on both sides
Shadows grow longer
under the one sun
Dawn rises on the dark side
and the sun sets on the bright side

Birds on fences know
“That the mystery of our universe
Can be found in a blade of grass”