Here at the Box Office Cafe
Normality’s back
The cafe coffee tastes great
And Frankie agrees
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
Bird on a Ladder
I am a blackbird on a circus ladder
Singing about how the world is feeling sadder
Or should I sing, “becoming madder”
Here on the last rung, I stand
Below, I see a treeless land
Above, I hear a breathless sky
After the show, I untangle my necktie
And I ask you why
“Does it matter, when I leap, what route do I fly?”
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
The weekend monthly Colour Challenge, at Weekly Prompts is: Blues! Please go and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … My poem below mentions ‘Blue’
Swans Gliding By
The showy morning clouds
Are my gregarious pantomime
Their grey fluffy curves
Dance across the sky’s blue stage
Like Ballerina Swans
Gracefully gliding by
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
I am ecstatic that my poem “Lines To Nowhere”, has been accepted and published in Spillwords Magazine today, and I am very grateful to the editor Dagmara for selecting my piece … Please go over and visit my poem at Spillwords and if you wish, leave a 💗 for my article, by clicking on this link >>
Ivor Steven (c) June 2nd 2023
I’m still stuck at home with my friendly ‘covid’ bug, and my Senryu from June 2022 seems to be quite appropriate for today.
Tomorrow’s Cake (a Senryu)
the future tastes like
yesterday’s cake, covered with
venom from today
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
“Dear Reader, beware. You think you’re reading my poems, but in truth, they are reading you. My words are mirrors and windows. Your reaction is merely a reflection of your own nature and experiences.” — John Mark Green
A Ten-Word Poem (Words Are Free)
A bewitched heart
Savagely eaten by vultures
Cannot be restitched
FREE, a PDF Copy of my poetry booklet; Shangri La, Volume 2. The Other Side of Yesterday
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Ivor Steven (c) June 2023
FREE PDF COPY >>> Links Below
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 that I produce and as the saying goes “I Am Turning Another Page”. Here I have begun a new series of poem booklets, and they are 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”.
Incredibily, I now have a total of “1452” Poems filed in these booklet formats!!
Click >> Here. for the link to your FREE: PDF Copy of “Shangri La, Volume 2. The Other Side of Yesterday“.
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
Led me to her underground doorway
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now back writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine, after a 6 weak self-enforced break due to my personally hectic schedule during April and May. Luckily, I had my article ready for publication before I contracted ‘Covid’, and my poem “Behind Your Mirror”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. … please click on the link below to view my poem, at Coffee House Writers. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/behind-your-mirror/
Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
Another covid/isolation poem from March 2020, although my revised version here is almost a complete rewrite. Good news, today I made a small but noticeable improvement
Boy in a Bubble (Revised)
I’m living inside a bubble, unable to flee
Shadows are drifting away from me
Shivering silhouettes are beyond arms reach
I’m an isolated grain of sand from yesterday’s beach
I’m sleeping alone within my crazy daydreams
Thinking of life and wishing to be with my honey and cream*
This commonwealth of man has isolated the birds and bees
Now I’m sleepwalking, toward the forest’s hugging tree
*Honey and Cream: refers to “Cream and Honey” a poem from my book “Tullawalla”, >> https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Tullawalla&crid=1FWSLQYMP5NLQ&sprefix=tullawalla%2Caps%2C300&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Cream and Honey
I dream of what might have been
Dream of what I have not seen
Snow on top of lover’s hill
Cream filling my empty till
I had forgotten what could have been
Forgotten what I had already seen
Flowers on top of her wooden bier
Honey kisses, and my empty fear
I am dreaming of where I have been
Dreaming of what no-one is ever seen
Snowflakes silently melting in her palm
Cream and honey, my lover’s balm
Ivor Steven (c) March 2020
Another poem from those “Covid/Lockdown” times, March 2020 …
My Doctor has me on an anti-viral/covid medication to stop my situation from worsening, and hopefully, I’ll be improving soon …
Survive Again – (March 2020)
I’m here, in my writers room
Secure in this single cocoon
But my active mind’s wondering
And dreams, of freely wandering
Be patient I am told
Remember those bad days of old
When your body turned cold
Dead from a unworldly mould
You’re to be a good patient again
Remember those months of pain
When clots and spots invaded your brain
And how you survived, to see your spirit reign
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Ivor Steven (c) May 2023
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