I am ecstatic that my poem “Lines To Nowhere”, has been accepted and published in Spillwords Magazine today, and I am very grateful to the editor Dagmara for selecting my piece … Please go over and visit my poem at Spillwords and if you wish, leave a 💗 for my article, by clicking on this link >>
Ivor Steven (c) June 2nd 2023
Another covid/isolation poem from March 2020, although my revised version here is almost a complete rewrite. Good news, today I made a small but noticeable improvement
Boy in a Bubble (Revised)
I’m living inside a bubble, unable to flee
Shadows are drifting away from me
Shivering silhouettes are beyond arms reach
I’m an isolated grain of sand from yesterday’s beach
I’m sleeping alone within my crazy daydreams
Thinking of life and wishing to be with my honey and cream*
This commonwealth of man has isolated the birds and bees
Now I’m sleepwalking, toward the forest’s hugging tree
*Honey and Cream: refers to “Cream and Honey” a poem from my book “Tullawalla”, >> https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Tullawalla&crid=1FWSLQYMP5NLQ&sprefix=tullawalla%2Caps%2C300&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Cream and Honey
I dream of what might have been
Dream of what I have not seen
Snow on top of lover’s hill
Cream filling my empty till
I had forgotten what could have been
Forgotten what I had already seen
Flowers on top of her wooden bier
Honey kisses, and my empty fear
I am dreaming of where I have been
Dreaming of what no-one is ever seen
Snowflakes silently melting in her palm
Cream and honey, my lover’s balm
Ivor Steven (c) March 2020
There, above the quivering horizon
I see a winter moon’s shadow
Falling from a cold lonely sky
There, above the afternoon’s icy dome
I see a winter moon’s silver spoon
Consuming tomes of unread poems
Falling from a vacant pillow in my bedroom
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
I came across this poem of mine today, a piece I wrote back in January 2019, while I was in hospital recovering from my 2nd stroke … maybe my dreams and visions were at bit blurred … but maybe they weren’t …
Hear The Thunder
My tired voice is crying out, “there’s no time to wait !!”
The people are pleading fromwithin their breastplates
We need to hear the thunder of peace bells ringing
Ringing to the crescendo of peace doves singing
The chimes are loud and clear
Loud enough for the universe to hear
Even through white marble walls
You’ll hear the thunder of the peace bells fall
We are gathering in every backyard
Every church hall
Every city street
Every farmers paddock
Every heavenly peace dove is escaping
You will see the doves flying high above
Even through the towers of tinted glass
You’ll see the peace doves soar
Even through their white marble walls
They’ll hear the thunder of the peace bells fall
Even through their towers of tinted glass
They’ll hear the crescendo of the peace doves call
Hear the thunder of peace bells ringing
Hear the crescendo of peace doves singing
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
This is a copy of my article that I posted on “Go Dog Go Cafe” early this morning >> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/01/27/throwback-friday-im-a-dreamer-by-ivor-steven/
Lately I have been reading the poems I wrote while I was hostpital 4 years ago, recovering from 2 strokes that had occured only 7 weeks apart. Needless to say, I was down and out, and looking back through my writings during those difficut months, I am both surprised and fascinated at how I was able cope and still managed to produce so many emotion pieces from the confines of my hospital bed. Todays poem “I’m A Dreamer”, as is my way, has been slightly revised.
I’m A Dreamer (Revised)
I am here on a hospital bed, life’s not quite right
Today’s window, is out of sight
I sense that the sun did rise and the day is now alight
Answering the sky, I’m a dreamer of the night
Morning thoughts of the day ahead, within this quiet
I could be in the park, flying my orange kite
Under a cool verandah, riding my silver bike
On the surf beach, cleansing myself of this blight
Lying on warm sand, sunbathing my body beyond white
Reality strikes, I’m here waiting for the next test’s bite
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Words (an Acrostic Poem)
Wandering along this winding road
Over hallowed hills carrying my ethereal load
Rivers of tears overflowed into the sea
Disheartened, but encouraged by the prevailing breeze
Secretly, I keep sailing toward her sacred tree
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
A poem I originally wrote back in January 2018
Clear Blue Jar
Laying here looking above
Staring toward the sky
Wondering why
Why is our sky blue?
How do we perceive hues?
And why say “feeling blue”
When it’s not true
The blue I see
Is no one’s fool
So why fool with me
Seeing every new face
Has your forever smile
Yours on every dial
Like yesterday’s last mile
Doing your time in style
Smiling faces, new and old alike
Beaming, even from afar
Smiling at my new life
My life in a clear blue jar
Featured Image: Taken of the clear blue sky, using a Samsung Galaxy S5.
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Ivor Steven (c). December 2022
A poem I wrote in February 2019
I’m Home
I’m not quite on song
Home’s where I belong
Humming ballad songs
I’m going out, right or wrong
I’ve made up my mind
Even though life’s unkind
We only live once
And this is my dance
Dreams are living on
Life shouldn’t be postponed
Realities push and thrive
My future is still alive
She’ll gently take my hand
And show me the distant lands
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
December is here and the final monthly colour challenge for 2022 at Weekly Prompts is – Pinkish. Please go over and visit their fabulous by clicking >> HERE
Featured Image Above; ‘Weird/Wonderful’, a painting by Geelong Artist Wendy Ratawa, which was this weeks Geelong Writers Inc. Ekphrastic Photo Prompt, that subsequently inspired my colourful poem.
Standing On the Edge of Time
Am I dreaming
Sprawled across Saturn’s rainbow rings
Wishing
I was there
On the edge of Jupiter’s
Multicoloured volcanoes
Observing the chromatic universe
Through my kaleidoscopic eyes
I am here
Standing on the edge of time
Above Tower Hill’s dormant crater
Overlooking a picturesque valley
Of blue lakes and
Multicoloured forests
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Beyond the Sky (Prose Poetry)”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below and visit my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/beyond-the-sky-prose-poetry/
Beyond the Sky (Prose Poetry)
Today I traveled to the stars and touched the outer limits of the universe’s Milky Way. There, I opened a magical storybook that had traversed the mysteries of my bedazzled mind.
My unravelled visions were impelled by a strong solar storm originating in the Atlantic Ocean, from beyond the windswept Isle of Wight. Then within my perceptive mind. those dreams cautiously touched down on the curiously tranquil waters of Geelong’s windswept Corio Bay.
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
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