Below the grayness
Naked emotions stumble
Between the shadows
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023
Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘No Place Like Home’ in August 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in Chapter 7. Memories and Rhymes
No Place Like Home
A sleeping beauty in her nightwear
Pure honesty lived in our home atmosphere
Her truth breathed, the air we shared
Hiding behind white silent doors
They tried to take her from our shores
By nailing her bed to a hospital floor
They heard my stoic voice roar
I told them, they wouldn’t win
“And watch out!! Don’t throw her in
you’ll surely regret your foolish sin
be warned, she’s Circe the Siren”
When I held her sweetness
I believe I touched greatness
And achieved weightlessness
Today’s poem might be the 2nd poem I recite at Geelong’s Lowercase Poetry Open Mic event tonight … or maybe the piece will be too sentimental for me to read …
A Blanket of Golden Sun
I’m flying above silver linings
Gliding on layers of white velvet
Travelling toward a golden horizon
Looking for her celestial star
Bright as today’s golden sun
That warm blanket of radiance
Lovingly crafted by her gentle hands
Held together by golden strings
From a softly humming violin
That played our song, “Once Upon a Time”
Reciting the golden hours of our love story
“Once Upon a Time”: our favourite version, sung by Bobby Darin
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2023
Hi dear readers, unfortunately, I have tested “Positive” with ‘Covid’ … and will be resting up for a few weeks
A Forever Coat (Revised)
Her favourite coat still hangs in my wardrobe
Every time I open the robe’s door
I inherently see her family heirloom
A gift that was handed down from her grandmother
However, a gift she was not able to wear after her sickness began
Not once, over the next thirty years of her failing frailty
Sadly the declining illness brought about her finality
And nostalgically I held onto her favourite coat
I knew! We all knew. She was amazing
However, she is not going to mystically reappear
And the coat’s warmth will never again cover her gentle shoulders
Consciously I am not sure, why the coat remains
I have tried to give the coat away
To a deserving charity, and even a local actor’s group
Fortuitously her coat has not been accepted
Here in the wardrobe, the glorious fur coat stays
Along with the other trinkets of her forever spirit
Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Mom’s birthday and Carole’s birthday were not far apart, and appropriately they enjoyed a very close relationship …
Today is my mother’s birthday, and next Sunday is Mothersday, and coincidently, today was also Carole’s funeral day … Here is my tribute to those 2 magnificent women in my life…
My Women
After I had left the hem
Without women
I could not have survived my time
I would not have braved the climb
Ladies you were my rhyme
My mothers of thyme
Helping me roll away the stone
Maintaining these old bones
Repairing the bridges, I had burnt
Reciting the messages, I had learnt
Cheering from the sidelines
Supporting my broken designs
Women of my rhymes
Mothers for a lifetime
Ivor Steven (c) May 9th 2023
Yesterday
Was one of those days
At lunchtime
I went to the Box Office Cafe
I forgot
And left without paying
For my coffee and cake
In the afternoon
I had a doctor’s appointment
I forgot
And left without paying
For the Fee at reception
After Dinner
I caught a bus into town
I forgot
That the ‘open mic’ night
Occurs on the second Thursday of each month
This morning
I watch the sunshine
Flickering on her handmade curtains
I remember
And I relight her candle again
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
A special poem I wrote, after I’d taken my Lady to hospital for the last time, on the day of her 65th birthday, eleven years ago. Hello Carole, and I wonder if you still wonder that I wonder, about wandering on your celestial star…….
Under The Snow.
We emanate to a birthday.
We deflate to a final day.
Birthdays, they all come, they all go.
Birthdays, in the sunshine, under the snow.
Birthdays, slow to mature, quickly an aeon.
Birthdays, before we are born, after we are gone.
Birthdays, hanging on by a breath.
Birthdays, nailed to a cross ’til death.
What’s it all mean to be alive and cry.
What’s it all mean to live and to die.
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Ivor Steven (c) May 4th 2023
Today, May 3rd, is the eleventh Anniversary of Carole’s passing
Here I Am, Eleven Years On
here I am shuffling on
the same old yellow brick road
that I wandered on eleven years ago
here I am running from
the same old dark storm
that I escaped from eleven years ago
here I am blushing under
the same old halfmoon
that I sheltered under eleven years ago
here I am dreaming about
the same old red head
that I dreamed about eleven years ago
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Ivor Steven (c) May 3rd 2023
The Other Side of Yesterday
“Have I come to the end of the road”
I asked the forest’s guardian toad
He quietly replied
“There is always another way
like there is always another day”
Here, is not where I need to stay
I would like to cross the river today
To redefine the other side of yesterday
When life’s narrow causeway
Lead me to her underground doorway
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
A poem I originally wrote in March 2021 and was Short-listed by Postive Words Magazine in their October 2022 Competition.
A Box of Old Crayons
Sometimes I stare at an empty table
And wonder if I would ever be able
To turn the fading power back on
I was unsure about another swansong
But each time I became lost and wrong
I found another box of old crayons
And from here and there, words did flow
Nurturing my dry mirages to regrow
Replenished by the thawing mountain snow
Nature’s river rejoined my ocean’s undertow
Again, colouring in my life of highs and lows
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Ivor Steven (c) April 2023
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