Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Throwback Friday, Every Ordinary Day

Today, my Throwback Friday poem was written on December 4th, 2020

Every Ordinary Day

If you look up
There is air and sky
If you look backward
There goes the sunset
If you look forward
Here comes sunrise
If you look sideways
There shines the fullness of the day

Look and you will feel
Nature sharing her love
Look and you will hear
Her crescendo of life’s adrenaline

Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

MAY’D Arts Festival

TODAY 5.00 pm – 3.00 pm
& SATURDAY 11.00 am – 3.00 pm

I’ll be at the May’d Festival, at “IVOR’S Poetry Books” stall, selling my poetry books, look my for Sign …

This is a two-day festival by @creativegeelong in partnership with the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
The Centrepoint Arcade in Geelong has become a vibrant hub of art, workshops, live performances, and creative stallholders selling art, books, clothing, and craft.

Creative Geelong Hub
Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St
Geelong VIC

Friday 31st May 5pm-9pm
Saturday 1st June 11am-3pm

Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

The Universe Beyond My Wardrobe’s Doors

The Universe Beyond My Wardrobe’s Doors

I live in a small compact villa
My abode is comfortable and cozy
The bedroom doubles up
As my writer’s studio and library

The wardrobe’s doors are near the end of my bed
On the doors, I hang a calendar
And a special photo of me and Carole
We had taken for our 25th anniversary

I gaze at the calendar and ponder
The appointments are in black
Important dates are marked in red
And my poetry events are scribbled in blue

The calendar has many blank squares
They are the days I spend writing
I Write to Her, about love and coping
I write for myself, about life and nature

I write for everyone who reads my poems
I write my thoughts about humanity’s existence
within the universe and the great beyond
I write words, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”

Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

A Spiny Cluster (a Haiku)

A Spiny Cluster (a Haiku)

Upon frosted ground

The spiny puffball mushrooms

Greet the dappled shade

Until Eyes Hear Sound

Lulu Books >> Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

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 direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

“Confused”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine.

Hello dear readers and followers, I am a writer for “Coffee House Writers magazine” (USA), on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Confused”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/confused/

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

One Day, Not Too Far Away

Over at Weekly Prompts, their Monthly Challenge is to include the words; OneDay … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here

One Day, Not Too Far Away

Now, is the beginning
Of my flightless journey

The airwaves taunt me
I hear the wind call

“aim high, beyond the sky,
one day you will fly”

I Shuffle my feet
And spread
My featherless wings

Flap, flap, nothing!
My ankles are anchored

Mother Nature smiles at me
“today, is not your turn to fly”

“you have time on your side
now, is not the moment to say goodbye”

Until Eyes Hear Sound: is NOW Available From,

Lulu Books: Until Eyes Hear Sound (lulu.com)

In the Full Moon’s Afterglow

In the Full Moon’s Afterglow

My world’s worn-out words flow
From the torn sunflower meadows
To the silent streets of Moscow
Written on the hills of Dnipro in blue-line lingo
Beyond the reach of the full moon’s afterglow
And painted in lyrical tempo with hypnotic gusto

Am I to be another muted scarecrow
Mutilated by the war-lords errant crossbows

Until Eyes Hear Sound: is NOW Available From,

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven/until-eyes-hear-sound/paperback/product-jeev886.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/product-page/until-eyes-hear-sound

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Throwback Friday, Connected

Today, my Throwback Friday poem was originally inspired by the three photos in my article … The photos were all taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allowed me to reproduce them here for my poem “Connected” …
The poem also appears in our collaborative Book of Poems and Photographs, “Perceptions”, on page 19.

You may visit Derrick’s fabulous site by clicking on this link >> https://derrickjknight.com/2021/11/19/traffic-control-duties/

Connected

up there

under draconian dark clouds

I see a blue moon rising

gracefully shrouding the horizon

meanwhile

back here

on terra firma

woodland autumn leaves are

colourfully crowning her mounds

where nature’s

unruffled fauna are found

gratefully grazing upon her

wounded ground

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Do You Have The Key?

“I’m just being dramatic
In fact,
I’m only at it again
As an addict with a pen
Who’s addicted to the wind
As it blows me back and forth
Mindless, spineless, and pretend
Of course I’ll be here again
See you tomorrow“
… Lyrics from “Addict With A Pen”, by Twenty One Pilots

Do You Have The Key?

Come fly with me