Our monthly Market Day is this Saturday! We will have a dozen stalls with a broad range of goods on offer including arts & crafts, books and clothes, and all manner of bric a brac. It’s all undercover at Centrepoint Arcade from 11am-3pm.
Several of our tenant art studios will also be open as well as the May’d Shop.
Saturday 17th August
132 Little Malop St Geelong
Market Day
11am-4pm
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Lucky me! I captured some amazing photos at sunset yesterday evening. These are a “first” for me, “Birds in the Sunset”
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
The Moon’s Podium
The Olympics are over
Now! Is an appropriate time
For our ancient and humble moon
To accept the shiniest medal
For being the friendly games
All around the World, marathon champion
During the endless days and sleepless nights
Our timeless warrior of the sky
Was the competitors overseeing, quiet achiever
Henceforth I duly declare
The “All Nations” podium belongs to the moon
For today, tonight, and all of our tomorrow’s
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132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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
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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) August 2024
Hello dear readers and followers, I am a writer for “Coffee House Writers magazine” (USA), on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “I Couldn’t See the Moon”, 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/i-couldnt-see-the-moon/
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Please Note: The photos were taken by Derrick Knight, and he kindly allows me to reproduce them here on my poetry site.
>> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/08/08/a-exceptional-year-for-magpies/
Peace and Harmony
The friendly magpie
Landed gently on the back
Of the sleepy foal
And quietly said
“Thanks, I hope you don’t mind
if I stay here and rest my weary wings,
your new fur is so soft and warm”
With eyes half open
The foal looks up
Knowingly smiles, and replies
“Make yourself at home
and while you are there
could you please shoo away
those pesky flies for me”
“Then we can both share
this patch of nature’s turf
in peace and harmony”
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Musette:
three verses
first line – 2 syllables
second line – 4 syllables
third line – 2 syllables
rhyme scheme – a/b/a c/d/c e/f/e
the title reflects the poem’s content
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend’s Challenge is the word Mislead. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
Here, my poem is about the ‘Midday Moon’ being “Misled”
High Noon Moon (a Musette)
Thin moon
A silver horn
At noon
Unowned
By the blue sky
Outbound
Unseen
Slinks toward night’s
Silkscreen
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Lunch With the Moon (a Haiku)
Clear blue winter sky
My lunchtime delight
With a Midday Moon
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Today’s poem is created from an amalgamation of “4” anecdotes/comments that I have sent to my fellow WP sites in response to their fabulous poems/articles …
In stanza order, they are:
* Carol >> https://therapybits.com/2024/08/04/in-the-bright-patchwork-where-colors-collide/
* Mark >> https://havocandconsequence.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/ignore-ignited-flame/
* Michelle >> https://herwritinghaven.com/2024/08/07/hard/
* Willow >> https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2024/08/07/wordless-wednesday-memories-3/
Patchwork Words
Our big wondrous world
Is like a well-worn patchwork quilt
Where the warmth of hope and love does not wilt
We fly through decades of storms
I wonder
Are we the pilot of our journeys
Our unreadable blueprints
Are only guidelines in black ink
To make us think
Of life’s kinks and chinks
And those indistinct
Instinctive missing links
Our treasured memories
Are like nursery rhymes
They stay in our minds forever
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Last week, my poems were about nature’s theatrical light shows, and today’s Throwback poem is a very appropriate choice. Originally written in August 2019, and as is my way, I have rehashed my poem …
Sundown’s Flight
When I’m physically able
And feeling stable
I like to stroll down my dead-end lane
And study the sky’s weather vane
I see twilight clouds on the run
Being corralled by the setting sun
Shredding prisms of light, tonight’s benediction
Bright orange and grey, tomorrow’s ritzy prediction
From the horizon’s flamboyant ballet
A jazzy indication that storms are on the way
Then the shadowed treeline, merges with the cloudy red kites
And I stand here witnessing sundown’s dazzling flight
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is the word – Irresistible. Please visit their wonderful website by clicking on >> Here
And I’m find the end of winter’s warmer sunshine, pleasingly “Irresistible”.
The Sun is Warmer (a Haiku)
Winter’s waning
And he cannot hold back spring
Warmly, the sun winks
All Books. Now Available At:
Creative Geelong MAY’D Shop,
Shop 15/Centrepoint Arcade
132 Little Malop St, Geelong
TRADING HOURS
Thursday-Saturday
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 directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2024
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