I am not insane
I have lost myself in pain
I know I’ts not time
I have the will to survive
I’m a walrus goo goo g’joob
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
My back pain has been reasonably under control for 6 months, mainly due to my daily exercise routine and the two weekly visits to the Community Rehab Centre, but disappointingly I am again suffering from extreme back pain … I know I need to rest up for a few days and also keep my exercise program going, and hopefully I will be sufficiently good enough to be back to my wobbly best soon … so my time at the computer desk will be restricted and I will only do what is comfortable for me …
Featured Image Above: a photo my sister sent me this afternoon of her garden’s birdbath …
A Fractured Birdbath
I have been staggering
Sometimes stumbling
Beneath the hard rain
but I see no soft puddles
on my cobblestone path
My empty matchbox raft
Is snagged in my tubs gurgling drain
And out in the yard’s fractured birdbath
only charred snow flakes
and a dry feather-sponge remain
to soothe my back pain
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
Don’t stop
Do not look back
Leaves drop
Shadows
Do not create
Meadows
Walk tall
Don’t look beyond
Nightfall
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Today we went to Geelong’s picturesque “Buckleys Falls River Reserve” for our morning walkies and I took several photos using my iPhone and wrote the Haiku, attached below, while relaxing and enjoying the beautiful scenery all around us.
The river bank walk towards the waterfall
The Barwon river below the cascade
The gentle cascade at Buckleys Falls, and the Historic Paper Mill in the background
The Barwon River Reserve Picnic area, where I wrote the poem, and Frankie enjoying his bushwalk outing.
For a comprehensive article about the Buckleys Falls River Reserve, you may like to open this > https://waterfallseasons.com/waterfalls-in-victoria-buckley-falls-geelong.htm
Waterfall (a Haiku)
Within urban sprawl
There is a gentle cascade
Scenic Buckleys Falls
Music/Video Below: Please enjoy this beautifully scenic performance by Sigur Rós, Live In Ásbyrgi, of Hoppípolla & Með blóðnasir …
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
Magpies and Butterflies
Our sad solar eye
Is hiding behind a misty sky
Why do you cry?
The golden age did not die
Nor are we waving goodbye
Despite the state of our pigsty
Verbal bullshit deeper than knee-high
One day soon, we will try
To become nature’s ally
Turn ourselves into the good guys
With clip-on clean green bowties
Then, save our magpies and butterflies
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
The Weekend Challenge from Weekly Prompts is the word: OLD. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here
This morning I luckily managed to take several bird in flight photos using my “Old” Apple iPhone. Of course, I had to enhance and enlarge them, but fortunately, a few of the photos came out ok, and subsequently, with excited enthusiasm I wrote this poem “Birds in Flight”.
Birds in Flight
Our spirit birds sleep all night
Then emanate at first light
To resume their dedicated flights
Our watchtower sentinels of Mother Earth
Who sacredly ascend at first light
Forever in flight, since nature’s worldly birth
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At “Go Do Go Cafe” earlier today …
>> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/10/throwback-friday-birds-on-wires-july-2010-by-ivor-steven/
Last month I posted a poem on my website which was also Titled “Birds on Wirds”, however my Throwback poem from July 2010 is completely different, and in keeping with my poetic theme about birds lately I thought It would be appropriate to repost my first “Birds on Wires” poem here today …
Birds on Wires (July 2010)
Here on the edge of lower earth
Beyond the urban concrete girth
Withering trees are trying to grow
Reaching for that mystical power flow
Hungering for energy from contaminated ground
Not the airwaves of false sonic sound
Man-made arrows cluttering the sky
Unnatural webs soaring high
Bird dodging spires
Hanging on cold steel wires
Carriers of these modern times
The pulse of humanities crimes
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Ivor Steven (c) July 2020
Birds Walking
Who would need wings
If the ground was safe all year long
A level field for the world’s bird songs
No gas-filled trenches
No bombs dropping from the sky
No fallen angels waving goodbye
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
Over on Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the word: ENOUGH. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here …
Below, the Epigram “Dancing in the Rain” that I wrote in September 2022, has been selected for publication in the Australian Magazine “Positive Words”, thank you to the editor Sandra for considering my piece >>https://positivewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/ …
The poem is my first ever “Epigram” and to be published in this wonderful magazine is more than ENOUGH reward for my debut Epigram …
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
THIS THURSDAY AT 6:30 PM
Lowercase presents: SPEAKING IN TONGUES
At The Medusa Bar
Hello dear readers and followers, if you are in the Geelong area, come along, you are most welcome, and I will be reciting my new poem “Forked Tongues”.
Forked Tongues
War clouds cover the sun
The wind hums through dead leaves
They’re talking in tongues
Beach sand is on the run
The waves sharply rise and cry
They’re talking in tongues
Moon shadows are left undone
Their white light hides under trees
And they’re talking in tongues
The new dawn has begun
Sunrise greets everyone
But we’re talking in tongues
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Ivor Steven (c) February 2023
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