A poem from before my Tullawalla booklets, before I began my blog/website, before I had a computer, before I had a typewriter, and when I wrote my words with a 2HB pencil into a blue line exercise book. I do not have an exact date for the poem, but the piece was probably written during early 2003.
Hello dear readers and followers, I am announcing “Today” that “Tullawalla #31” is to be the final publication in my series of “Tullawalla” Booklets … For new readers that don’t know about these booklets, they are basically the reason why I write poetry. I produce these ‘home-printed’ booklets for the sole purpose of raising funds for my favourite charity organisation, the MS Society, in Australia via the MS Charity Shop here in Geelong. And actually all money’s I receive for any of my poetry .via, submissions, I donate to the MS Society…. I’m proud to announce, that the sale of my “Tullawalla Booklets”, have now gone pass $1500.00, … to all the lovely readers, who have donated, to help achieve such a wonderful amount, a big heartfelt thank you, from “us” and the MS Society … …..Incredibly, there is now a total of “1347 poems”, Yep, over “Thirteen Hundred Poems” in my collection/series of “31” Tullawalla Booklets. After 6 YEARS of processing these booklets, my journey has finally come to an end, and here I am back at the ‘Front Gate’ to the Tullawalla, (House Number “31”), I have now completed the cycle
… As always, they are available for purchase, either as a hard copy ‘Booklet’, or a PDF format….. All proceeds go to the MS Charity Shop, here in Geelong West….. Please contact me here through my website page and I can chat to you about arrangements from there…. Oh, the booklet is appropriately called, “Tullawalla, The Closing Chapter”… And here isthe link to my website >> https://ivors20.wordpress.com
Tullawalla #1 the first one: Tullawalla #15 the middle one: Tullawalla #31 the final one
My New Year Poem, and wishing my readers a safe and healthy 2023.
Featured Imagr Above: A photo of Graeme Altmann’s amazing painting, “Hopeful Return”, from a Geelong Writers Inc. Ekphrastic Writng Workshop at the Boom Gallery, Sept 2018.
There’s plenty of curiosity in these “odds and ends” pieces of poetry that I have compiled in my files, and this one I put together in January 2019. They were “verse comments” that I had made to some of my WordPress readers, about their posts at the time. I’ve not written one these for a while, and I’ve enough of my comments stored in my NoteBook file to fill “War And Peace!!” Thank you to all of my dear readers who comment on my writings, I am forever grateful, and you all continue to inspire me to write these short poetry pieces about your marvelous articles and poems.
Odds and Ends, The Ancient Tree
Time
Oh, time and time again
we wish for time to slow down
preserve our time in the sun and rain
and under stars, where lover’s caresses are crowned
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 