Tag: Life & Nature

Shangri La, Volume 8. Beyond Flawed Paws

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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 “1711” 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 … )

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Beyond Flawed Paws
 
 
We are flying north before winter 
I am on the edge of the flock 
The outside feather of the throng  
Away from the main group.  
But close enough 
To sense that I belong

Even with my tired and aging wings 
The congregation allows me to tag along 
And they caringly bunch together 
Sheltering me when the wind is strong

We are a humble and united colony  
Paternally migrating in perfect harmony 
As part of nature’s cycle of eternity 

We soar above the flawed paws
Of the world’s sparring humanity 
And beyond those sharp claws
Of their tragic and panicky community










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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Jaded Rewrites







Jaded Rewrites


faded half-moon

between the clouds

at high noon


washed out skies

between yesterday and tomorrow

hackneyed eyes


becalmed nights

between dusk and dawn

jaded rewrites







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Perceptions:

Amazon >>  Perceptions : Steven, Ivor, Knight, Derrick: Amazon.com.au: Books
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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2024

Beware! Alien Eyes (a Haiku)





Beware! Alien Eyes
(a Haiku)

Inside the storm clouds

Yellow alien eyes looked down

On our wounded ground







Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

# Kimo #

Thank you to Eugi from Moonwashed Musings, for introducing me to the “Kimo” poetry format. >> https://amanpan.com/2024/05/29/kimo-5-29-24/

The Kimo is a tristich, a poem of three lines with 10/7/6 syllables. Kimo is an Israeli version of the haiku. Unrhymed. No title.

“Also, the kimo is focused on a single frozen image (kind of like a snapshot). So it’s uncommon to have any movement happening in kimo poems.






# Kimo #


The dim three-quarter moon pauses and sighs

into the white horizon

“Now, it’s my turn to shine”







Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Throwback Friday, Every Ordinary Day

Today, my Throwback Friday poem was written on December 4th, 2020



Every Ordinary Day

If you look up
There is air and sky
If you look backward
There goes the sunset
If you look forward
Here comes sunrise
If you look sideways
There shines the fullness of the day

Look and you will feel
Nature sharing her love
Look and you will hear
Her crescendo of life’s adrenaline








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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

A Spiny Cluster (a Haiku)






A Spiny Cluster (a Haiku)


Upon frosted ground 

The spiny puffball mushrooms

Greet the dappled shade







Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me direct for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

“Confused”, 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 “Confused”, 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/confused/







Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

One Day, Not Too Far Away


Over at Weekly Prompts, their Monthly Challenge is to include the words; OneDay … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here




One Day, Not Too Far Away



Now, is the beginning
Of my flightless journey

The airwaves taunt me
I hear the wind call

“aim high, beyond the sky,
one day you will fly”

I Shuffle my feet
And spread
My featherless wings

Flap, flap, nothing!
My ankles are anchored

Mother Nature smiles at me
“today, is not your turn to fly”

“you have time on your side
now, is not the moment to say goodbye”








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In the Full Moon’s Afterglow




In the Full Moon’s Afterglow

My world’s worn-out words flow
From the torn sunflower meadows
To the silent streets of Moscow
Written on the hills of Dnipro in blue-line lingo
Beyond the reach of the full moon’s afterglow
And painted in lyrical tempo with hypnotic gusto

Am I to be another muted scarecrow
Mutilated by the war-lords errant crossbows







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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024

Throwback Friday, Connected

Today, my Throwback Friday poem was originally inspired by the three photos in my article … The photos were all taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allowed me to reproduce them here for my poem “Connected” …
The poem also appears in our collaborative Book of Poems and Photographs, “Perceptions”, on page 19.


You may visit Derrick’s fabulous site by clicking on this link >> https://derrickjknight.com/2021/11/19/traffic-control-duties/



Connected


up there

under draconian dark clouds

I see a blue moon rising

gracefully shrouding the horizon

meanwhile

back here

on terra firma

woodland autumn leaves are

colourfully crowning her mounds

where nature’s

unruffled fauna are found

gratefully grazing upon her

wounded ground









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Ivor Steven (c) May 2024