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In response to Sadje’s, “What Do You See”, prompt
>> https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2024/12/02/what-do-you-see-265-december-2-2024/
A Step Beyond Shadows (a Tanka)
An archway of trees
Cast shadows over my path
The light glows brighter
As I dare to step beyond
My uncharted existence
My World Is Like An Opal
Some days are rainy
Other days are windy
Most days are sunny
Nature’s days are diamonds
My days are like opals
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
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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 “1853” 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 11, Serene Memories
** Over at Weekly Prompts, It’s their end of the month, “One Day” Prompt. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
My “Shangri La” Booklet took well over “One Day” to compile and produce.
Serene Memories
I live in a time zone
Where a peaceful river flows
Through the heart of my home
Down the road, toward the South
The Ocean’s shimmering memories
Convey a tranquil taste
Of sea mist to my mouth
And not far away, toward the North
The mountain’s eucalyptus fragrance
Serenely follows me back and forth
Ivor Steven (c) December 2024
Flying Together (a Tanka)
Flying above trees
My journey does not need wheels
Only a cool breeze
And the atmosphere is free
There, for humankind to feel
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Tullawalla:
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Today’s Slate-Grey Sky
Dark as tomorrow’s blackboard
Dreary as a bitumen road
Dim like a bat’s cave
Dull like Santa’s razor blade
Dingy and dankly humid
Dowdy as a politician’s banal promise
Dawn to dusk
Daylight has lost its shine
Dethroned by a dusty slate-grey sky
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Tullawalla:
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Sharing
I am a scrubby tree
Shaggy like a wild woolly bee
However, the birds always befriend me
Perching on my bent knees
And pecking at my flowers and leaves
Like a flock of grub-thieves
I am unselfish and kind
And intuitively, I do not mind
My branches are there to be shared
My sacred patch has been spared
And is politically unimpaired
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Tullawalla:
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Above: My favorite image is the bottom right one. It’s a lovely photo of a Wattlebird flying over the setting sun.
Wily Wattlebird (a Haiku)
Witty wattlebird
The wily will-of-the-wisp
In my twilight sky
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is – Nurturing. To visit their fabulous site, click on >> Here
Today, my poem is about the “Nurturing”/guiding powers of the full moon.
Full Moon Rising
I am an aging seagull
And I must be out of my skull
Thinking that I’m fit enough
To fly further than the bluff
No matter, there is a full moon
To guide me across this barren dune
My journey is a lonely one
But I’m not to be outdone
I know there is another blue ocean
Beyond this World’s wavering horizon
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
Live and Let Die
The misty Full Moon sighed
My garden Magpie cried
And the Twilight Bunnies
In a startled stride
Ran away to hide
The Titan Arum* flower had died
And with compassionate pride
I felt like a loveless bride
Speechless and teary-eyed
* Titan Arum, the Corpse Plant.
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Perceptions:
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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) November 2024
Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “The Wounded Blacbirds” is in this week’s edition. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/the-wounded-blackbirds/
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Tullawalla:
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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) November 2024
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