Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Nightfall (a Musette)”, 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.
>> Nightfall – Coffee House Writers
Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
Hello dear readers, I’ve just arrived back home after my evening out at the “Twilight Market” event … For me, the night was a balancing act between my general tiredness and my willingness to participate in the event. Good news, I managed to run my stall ok, but now this little old hero is on the tired end of the “seesaw” … 😴
The poem “Balance” is in “Our” book Perceptions (page 5), and the Featured Image Above, was taken by Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2020/07/14/keeping-its-balance/
Balance
There is a distant shore
Between why and when
Life is a seesaw
Between hero’s and heroine’s
There is a balance
Between ups and downs
Life is a challenge
Between smiles and frowns
There is a common ground
Between storms and calmness
Life is a humming sound
Between love and blindness
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2023
My Vivacious Sunflowers
This is the start
Of something big
Something big and beautiful
And immensely bigger
Than my shrub’s
Lovely little ladybug
My new sunflower plants are thriving
And are about to burst into flower
My heart is pounding in anticipation
And I can sense the bushes vivacious tenacity
Spiritually enhancing my well-being
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; Finale You may visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here.
His Musical Finale
Richard the intrepid snail
Went searching for the Holy Grail
He was told by the garden toad
His goal was on a long frosty road
Winding down toward the South Pole
Coolly, the snail began his arctic stroll
Determined to find the sacred anomaly
Before the music played at his grand finale
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Do You See the Sound?
Oh, great spirit of the sky
My eyes hear the sound
Of your moonbeam’s cry
A message so profound
Sadly, echoing the unearthly tremors
Of whales and pelicans distressed murmurs
This world has an abundance
Of digital receiving towers
And trillions of mobile phones
To interpret your ethereal moon-rays
Cannot they see the sound?
From under the oceans
Cannot they feel the ground?
Beyond today’s horizon
Cannot they hear the drowned?
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Sharing the Moment
Relaxing
On the café’s cottage veranda
Soaking
Up the bucolic atmosphere
Feeling
I have found a snippet of serenity
Fleetingly
I am sharing the moment
Sharing my dreamy Oasis
With a dainty
Blue Fairy Wren
Flittering
From table to table
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
There’s an old saying
What spirals up, must come down
I’m still Soaring up
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Perceptions is Now Available via:
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Stars Inside My Home (a Tanka)
I’m not going blind
I am not losing my mind
My words are a song
A ballad from yesterday
About stars sharing my home
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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:
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Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
Over at Moonwashed Musings, Eugi’s Weekly Prompt is: Flamboyant >> you can visit her fabulous site via this link >> https://amanpan.blog/2023/11/14/moonwashed-weekly-prompt-flamboyant/
Also, at Gerry & Sue’s Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is; Energy … and you can visit their wonderful site by clicking on >> Here
I think my poem “My Jazzy Bougainvillea” is eligible for both ‘Prompts’
My Jazzy Bougainvillea (a Tanka)
Jazzy, you are so
Curvaceously Flamboyant
Exposing your blooms
To anyone who walks by
Boldly seducing their eyes
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
“What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.” ~ William Butler Yeats
Within Us Or Without Us
Every river
Has a steppingstone
Every mountain
Is there to be climbed
Every island
Is waiting to be explored
Under the world’s oceans
The fish swim together
Out in the universe
The stars will shine forever
Within us
Or without us
Tullawalla is Available From
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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’
AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:
Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT
Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) November 2023
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