Towering Archways





Towering Archways



Clouds are not all the same grey
Below their showy berets
They float like a ‘Swan Lake’ ballet

Adorning their silvery causeways
They display Nature’s mandalas,
screenplays, and cabarets


They are the sky’s open sleighs
The world’s towering archways
Gateways for tomorrow’s stairway











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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Crystallized Sunlight






Crystallized Sunlight

 
Deep-sleep night 
Eyes squeezed tight 
Avoiding 
Dawn’s icy white blight 

Deep-sleep fright 
Crystallized sunlight 
Ushering 
Dawn’s silent frostbite 












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

More Poetry Books

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. – William Blake

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is their monthly Colour Challenge, and for August it is: Brown. To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here. … And my connection to their prompt is that most of the books that I purchased at the Fair had the colour “Brown” represented in their cover designs …



On our way to the Box Office Cafe, I took Frankie to the Geelong West Rotary Book Fair at the Town Hall and I found ‘seven’ wonderful poetry books to add to my poetry collection at home …
* The Collected Verse of A. B (Banjo) Paterson
* The Poems of William Blake
* New Selected Poems, Les Murray
* A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson
* A Pocket Poet, Browning
* Some of Me Poetry, Pam Ayres
* Inspirations, Melinda A MacBeth (a self-published book, from Mansfield, Victoria, and printed by Mansfield Newspapers)

Below Images: I have scanned the Book Covers and attached a small poem from the book















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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

“Every Rock I Kicked”, 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 “Every Rock I Kicked”, 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/every-rock-i-kicked/











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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

Enjoy the Carnival



Today’s poem was inspired by Eugi’s philosophical poem, ‘Profound Transformation’
>> https://amanpan.com/2024/08/01/profound-transformation/








Enjoy the Carnival


Arise, forget about the chaos
Surround yourselves with nature’s gloss
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss

Arise, be your own boss
Escape the world’s mossy dross
And enjoy the carnival’s fairy floss












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Ivor Steven (c) August 2024

Throwback Friday, Jack’s Back

It was a frosty Zero degrees this morning, so this Throwback poem from July 2022 was today’s appropriate choice



Jack’s Back 

 

I woke at dawn 
And there was Jack  
Laying on my lawn 
 

Good morning, Mr. Frost 
I am at a loss 
With the ground so white 
And the air’s bitter bite 
Why are called Jack? 
The Jacks I know from the outback 
Are all warmhearted folks  
And happy-go-lucky blokes 
Not cold-blooded guys 
Baptized by frozen skies 

Are you a naughty and chilly skite? 
Or a noble defender of the night 
Jack! Today at first light 
You gave my warm toes an icy fright 













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

Shangri La, Volume 9. Flowers in the Sky

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 “1763” 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 9, Flowers in the Sky




Flowers in the Sky

Look up high
Beyond yesterday’s goodbyes
Until your eyes
Are caressed by the sunny sky
And savor the reason why
Flowers strive to fly












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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

Shadows Over the Meadows

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Rigid … To visit their fabulous site please click on >> Here

Lol … me and Frankie cast a ‘Rigid’ looking shadow this morning …



Shadows Over the Meadows




I lingered under a clear blue sky

Where the low winter sun was shining brightly

And the gleaning mid-morning shadows

Vividly ebbed across the meadows

And the fluent silhouettes

Lithely floated over nature’s bed of roses













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024

What would you change about modern society? – My Answer

The Daily WordPress prompt from three days ago was
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What would you change about modern society?

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What would you change about modern society? – My Answer


Get rid of the modern

Go back to being a society

Without materialism













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Love! One Word, One World, One Day

Over at Weekly Prompts, as it is the last weekend of the month they are again giving us the challenge of The ‘One Day’ Prompt! To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here 

My poem today is another “one” of those pieces made up of comments I posted on some of my fellow WordPress writers’ articles during the month. In stanza order, they are

Eugi >> https://amanpan.com/2024/07/04/strategies-self-seeking/

Sadje >> https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2024/07/01/in-the-center-of-my-eye/

Bree >> https://secretthoughtswithin.com/2024/07/01/other-lives/



Love! One Word, One World, One Day




We are surrounded
By Nature’s wondrous colour
But we fail to see
The sound of her pain

Above our shadows
And beyond our dreams
Lives hope and love

Shall we never stop dreaming
About our world’s wilderness of words
Whether we are reading or writing













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Ivor Steven (c) July 2024