Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Timeworn”, 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/timeworn/
“Timeworn” … An interesting song by the French group ‘Wildpath’ to accompany my thought-provoking poem.
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Hello dear readers, this weekend, I am going to Ballarat for my brother’s Birthday, and I’ll be taking my ‘Duck Muck’ computer box with me. Hopefully, my whizz brother will be able to repair it. So, that means I’ll be relatively quiet here on my ‘website’ until my errant computer is up and running again.
Feature Images: The gorgeous photos of the horse wearing ‘a crown and necklace’ is reproduced here on my poetry site with the kind permission of Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2023/09/27/polishing-the-car/
The Forest Monarch
She roams New Forest
Like a natural born monarch
A true native of the land
She’s glamorous and charismatic
A perfect heir for nature’s game of thrones
A noble horse for our country’s warring forces
Ivor Steven © October 2023
The Snail and Jack Frost
My life as a snail is plain
Slithering alone in the hard rain
I ask, “Have I been deceived
where are the new geranium leaves?”
It is time to go nomadic
Leave this withered garden bed
Look for a greener paddock
With a big cabbage spread
“Am I climbing the right causeway?
this windowpane is no entree
and the flyscreen ahead
looks like moldy cornbread”
My life as a snail is no paradise
Everything is topsy turvy and I am lost
And I need to wait here for advice
From my friend Jack Frost
Ivor Steven (c) October 2023
Against the Wind (a Tanka)
His ears are flapping
And his fluffy tail looks like
A propeller fin
Whirling in a gusty gale
Getting ready for take-off
Ivor Steven (c) Oct 2023
Over at Weekly Prompts “today is the 1st October”, and the October Colour Challenge is Just Black! … Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … and below is my response to the ‘Prompt’
A Fluffy White Stairway
Gazing above
At the faint fluffy clouds
I see a narrow stairway
Ascending into the sky
I wonder
What happens
At the top of the stairs
Beyond the open doorway
Will the outlook
Be dazzling white
Or a panorama
Of just black
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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023
Today I am presenting the ‘penultimate‘ poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. and “Dancing In The Rain (an Epigram)” is a poem I wrote in September 2022, and it will be the last piece in the ‘Others’ section of Chapter 10. Short Poems: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Others …
Please Note: the photo attached below, is the proposed cover design for my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”, created by my niece Kerri Costello – Philadelphia.
Artwork © Kerri Costello
Dancing In The Rain (an Epigram)
In one way or another
After leaving our mothers
Life delivers us to love and pain
While dancing in the rain
Ivor Steven (c) September 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I’m proud to announce that over on Spillwords Press, my poem “True” has been Nominated for “Publication of The Month for September” … So eat humble pie guys … and get your VOTING CARDS out again, and if you wish, you can Vote for me by “SEPT 29” via this Spillwords Link: https://spillwords.com/vote/
Please remember that you will need to register and/or log in to cast your vote.
Thank you to Dagmara K and the entire Spillwords team.
Congratulations to the other Nominees
HERE ARE THE NOMINEES:
Fever by Suman Pokhrel
The Falling Man by Stephen Kingsnorth
Kings of The Water by Tim Barlow
Chilling Embrace by Lauren Scott
Love Lane by Simona Prilogan
Two Black Cats by Tamara Lindsay
Ruth by James Walmsley
True by Ivor Steven
You’re No Good For Me by Sheila Henry
Rubble Women by David Milner
Harvest by Elaine Nadal
Unobtainable by S.J. Walker
Two Weeks Today by Elizabeth Ricketson
Endless Scale by Vasile Trif
written by: Ivor Steven
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If there is something
I could do
I would do anything
To save you
Mother Nature, you are everything
I look up to
My words are nothing
Compared to you
You are the orchestrator of things
With a balcony view
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Broken Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … My appropriate Broken poem is attached below
Broken Ground
I stand here
and look to the east
my tolerant eyes
see an unbroken white moon
in a clear sapphire sky
behind me
from the west
I feel the unbroken golden sun
warm my ancient shoulders
here I am
standing on
middle ground
below me
I hear my broken earth
groan through the cracks
caused by the broken
and unshackled chains of war
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
The Owl and the Dragonfly
above the trees
below the clouds
a dragonfly roams proud and free
beneath nature’s protective shroud
beyond life’s angry crowd
“where wars are not allowed”
decrees the sentinel owl
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
We met a ‘Pill Millipede’ on our walkie this morning, he was shy and defensive.
I’m a Pill (a Haiku)
Defensively
I roll up into a pill
But don’t swallow me
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
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