No more highs and lows
Nor ups and downs
The rollercoaster wheels
Have sadly departed
From their weary axles
And the embedded tracks
Now rest underneath
Dried leaves and fallen branches
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Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “The Untouchable and Invisible World”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-untouchable-and-invisible-world/
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
There is a shady gray sky
Sailing above the Cafe
And a sympathetic breeze
Dances across the tabletops
As the liberating cool change diffuses
The morning’s explosive heatwave
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
A Cup of Coffee on The House
Fantasy.
A powerful Pacific Albatross
Gracefully landed on fairy-moss
That covered my welcoming pathway
And graciously handed me a sacred Mandala
Reality.
The postman delivered a special parcel today
A belated Christmas gift from America
A wonderful hand-painted coffee mug
And this afternoon I enjoyed
“A Cup of Coffee on The House”
Thanks to my friends at Coffee House Writers
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
A big thank you to Bartholomew >> https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2023/01/06/fraiku-not-just-a-little-shy/ for inspiring my “deep water thoughts”
I think I need to go to the beach
Volume Without Sound
when I am swimming
at the surf beach
and dive deep down
the eerie fullness
of my silent surroundings
enhances the volume
of those submersed thoughts
wafting within my mind
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am announcing “Today” that “Tullawalla #31” is to be the final publication in my series of “Tullawalla” Booklets … For new readers that don’t know about these booklets, they are basically the reason why I write poetry. I produce these ‘home-printed’ booklets for the sole purpose of raising funds for my favourite charity organisation, the MS Society, in Australia via the MS Charity Shop here in Geelong. And actually all money’s I receive for any of my poetry .via, submissions, I donate to the MS Society…. I’m proud to announce, that the sale of my “Tullawalla Booklets”, have now gone pass $1500.00, … to all the lovely readers, who have donated, to help achieve such a wonderful amount, a big heartfelt thank you, from “us” and the MS Society … …..Incredibly, there is now a total of “1347 poems”, Yep, over “Thirteen Hundred Poems” in my collection/series of “31” Tullawalla Booklets. After 6 YEARS of processing these booklets, my journey has finally come to an end, and here I am back at the ‘Front Gate’ to the Tullawalla, (House Number “31”), I have now completed the cycle
… As always, they are available for purchase, either as a hard copy ‘Booklet’, or a PDF format….. All proceeds go to the MS Charity Shop, here in Geelong West….. Please contact me here through my website page and I can chat to you about arrangements from there…. Oh, the booklet is appropriately called, “Tullawalla, The Closing Chapter”… And here is the link to my website >> https://ivors20.wordpress.com
Tullawalla #1 the first one: Tullawalla #15 the middle one: Tullawalla #31 the final one
The Closing Chapter
After the first page was turned
The tale progressed slowly
Unopened books were lost
Unused words were found
New novels had to be read
The search for more
Went on, and on
Adventure volumes were added
Expansion soared upwards
Higher than fiction could fly
Fluttering beyond
The ladders last rung
Where the quest for more
Was out of reach
And the story of unknown possibilities
Remained the unfinished saga
Of the closing chapter
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
Happy New Year!! 2023 …
Now, Tomorrow, and How
The afternoon before New Year’s Eve
Before Two Thousand and Twenty Three
I am hanging out at the Box Office Cafe
Soaking up the swarmy summer sun
Lounging in a seductive sea breeze
The final day of the year
Has become almost perfect
And I am listening to the blarney tunes
Of the Irish band “Flogging Molly”
I am smiling, swaying, and dreaming
About now, tomorrow, and how
“My empty hands are full
Of memories and rhymes” *
* A quote from my book ‘Tullawalla’
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
My New Year Poem, and wishing my readers a safe and healthy 2023.
Featured Imagr Above: A photo of Graeme Altmann’s amazing painting, “Hopeful Return”, from a Geelong Writers Inc. Ekphrastic Writng Workshop at the Boom Gallery, Sept 2018.
Will There Be a Boat To Steer
The new year draws near
Heavy clouds are yet to clear
From our atmosphere
Will there be a boat to steer?
Toward life’s unmapped frontier
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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023
I posted this article on the Go Dog Go Cafe site earlier today, and please visit there fabulous site by clicking on here >> https://wordpress.com/view/godoggocafe.com
There’s plenty of curiosity in these “odds and ends” pieces of poetry that I have compiled in my files, and this one I put together in January 2019. They were “verse comments” that I had made to some of my WordPress readers, about their posts at the time. I’ve not written one these for a while, and I’ve enough of my comments stored in my NoteBook file to fill “War And Peace!!” Thank you to all of my dear readers who comment on my writings, I am forever grateful, and you all continue to inspire me to write these short poetry pieces about your marvelous articles and poems.
Odds and Ends, The Ancient Tree
Time
Oh, time and time again
we wish for time to slow down
preserve our time in the sun and rain
and under stars, where lover’s caresses are crowned
Tree
The ancient tree of life shades our peace
Please continue to be our living centrepiece
Why
“Don’t Ask Me Why”
Because I don’t know why,
There’s a red and blue sky
How,
Do bats fly
Pigs eat in a sty
And politicians lie
Dark
We all have a dark side
Like the moon’s other side
There to be explored
Or left behind on the blackboard
Vultures
Alive or half dead, we’re the prey of vultures
Poised like loaded guns in a holster
Waiting to strike the poor and innocent
And even the unwilling ignorant
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
My imperfections
Are perfectly camouflaged
Underneath the trees
Where moon shadows protect me
From the world’s imperfectness
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Ivor Steven (c). December 2022
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