Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Rubber Soles and a Timeworn Soul

I use only one pair of shoes and after 12 months and 2200 km later, I’ve worn off about 15 mm of rubber from the outside heal area …

Rubber Soles and a Timeworn Soul

My shoe’s rubber soles
Are worn out and almost gone
And the laces are threadbare
Like burnt-down candle wicks

I have traveled many hard miles
My old bones are weary
Worn out and almost gone

But my timeworn soul remains intact
While my journey’s dreams are alive and well

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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

The Gangs All Here, Screeching! (a Haiku)

The Gangs All Here, Screeching! (a Haiku)

The Corella gang’s

Clamor, was like a loud screech

Roaring from the clouds

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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 direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Nuzzling and Guzzling (a Novem)

Frankie sleeping on my feet … Frankie waiting … Frankie guzzling coffee

A ‘novem’ is a poem format consisting of four-syllable, three-word tercets in which the positioning of the disyllabic word is different on each line.

All gone! … a dry plate

Nuzzling and Guzzling (a Novem)

(Night)

…..He lies asleep
…..There, cozy warm
…..Upon my feet

(Morning)

……….He waits calmly
……….For breakfast and
……….Walkies to come

(Afternoon)

……………He has coffee
……………To guzzle up
……………Licking it dry

(Sweets) … an extra stanza, just for fun!

He Loves Cheesecake
The crusty bit
Under the sponge

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Throwback Friday, Lost Horizon (a Tanka)

Today’s Throwback Friday poem is a follow-up to my Horizon/twilight poem/Tanka that I posted yesterday

Lost Horizon (a Tanka)

Running out of time

Inside today’s Twilight Zone

Drifting and alone

Searching for the pathway home

Beneath a lost horizon

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Is There Peace On the Horizon? (a Tanka)

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Sunset … you may visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
My poem is about “Twilight”, just after Sunset.

Is There Peace On the Horizon?
(a Tanka)

The pink twilight sky

And the bluestone clouds unite

At the horizon

Nature’s colours interact

Without fighting for the light

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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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Shangri La, Volume 8. Beyond Flawed Paws

FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below

Hello, dear readers and followers, as you might know, I stopped producing my “Tullawalla Booklets” at # 31, because that was the house number of our family’s Tullawalla Homestead.
But the booklet formats are a superb way for me to catalogue the vast number of poems I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, called “Shangri La” which is the name of my little Villa, and is my piece of “earthly paradise, a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization”.
Incredibly, I now have “1711” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
(on my bookshelf I have “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, which contains 1775 poems … when I first started writing poems, I never envisaged that I would produce so many poems … )

Click on >> Here. for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 8, Beyond Flawed Paws

Beyond Flawed Paws

We are flying north before winter
I am on the edge of the flock
The outside feather of the throng
Away from the main group.
But close enough
To sense that I belong

Even with my tired and aging wings
The congregation allows me to tag along
And they caringly bunch together
Sheltering me when the wind is strong

We are a humble and united colony
Paternally migrating in perfect harmony
As part of nature’s cycle of eternity

We soar above the flawed paws
Of the world’s sparring humanity
And beyond those sharp claws
Of their tragic and panicky community

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Tullawalla:

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

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Jaded Rewrites

Jaded Rewrites

faded half-moon

between the clouds

at high noon

washed out skies

between yesterday and tomorrow

hackneyed eyes

becalmed nights

between dusk and dawn

jaded rewrites

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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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Ingrid Wrote a Poem for Me

Creative Geelong Arts Festival

At my poetry books stall, and just up from me, the Piano Girl played.

“Creative Occupation” was at Creative Geelong, MAY’D Arts Festival

I looked for the Promoter, the Poet, the Printer, and the Publisher… I followed the red arrows, and I was there … “We so look forward to making poetry with you”.

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Ingrid Wrote a Poem for Me

The poet (Ingrid)

“Hello Ivor”
Wow, she knows my name
“Stand on the special black spot
and I’ll type a poem for you”

I stand on the special black spots

Then from her old yellow typewriter
Words magically curled
Off the antique roller
And when she finished
She handed me the paper tape
“A poem for you”

My hand-typed poem by Ingrid

“Hi dear, how do you know me
and what is your name”
“I’m Ingrid, and I read your poems
on the Creative Geelong Instagram site
and I love your writings”

The printing process

“Thank you for your kindness, Ingrid,
and you have made my amazing day
here at the Festival even betterer!”

The published poems suspended above the Festival crowd

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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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024