List night Geelong Writers Inc. launched the 2nd Issue of this year’s AnoMaly Street, Chapbook Publication (Poetry with a difference), and I am honoured to have my piece “Faerie Runnels” selected in this superbly produced journal. It’s always a great thrill for me to have my poems represented in a locally produced and published book. The Below Photo/Scan shows how my poem appears in the book.
“Faeries Runnels” also appears in new book “Perceptions”(page 41)
Again, thank you to Colleen for another one of her thought provoking post’s earlier today. >> https://bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/dependent/ , and my poem here is a instant comment/reply to her wonderful article.
Featured Image Above: a poor attempt at taking a photo of the moon tonight on my iPhone.
No One Stops the Sun From Shining
I do not try to count
The universe’s brightest stars
I do not try to change
The lonely moon’s moody faces
I do not interfere or stop
The trees from growing
And I’ll never try to stop
The sun from shining
I never had cause to question her personality
We accepted our inherent differences
She was delicately soft
And lovingly compassionate
I was resiliently sturdy
And lovingly loyal
And I will not stop
The sun from shining
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
I’m Almost Home (a Haiku)
Could the stars be right
That life is almost perfect
Tonight’s moon agrees
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Hello dear readers and followers, I now write for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Every Gilded Ounce”, 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/every-gilded-ounce/
This poem from 7 days ago, is one that I wrote in 10 minutes, while attending a “Writing Circle” meeting, hosted by the talented and gracious, Ali Grimshaw … If you are interested in attending one of her fabulous online “Zoom Sessions”, you can visit her site by clicking on this link
>> https://flashlightbatteries.blog/
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Celebrating the 50th year of Bell Park Cricket Club last night. Fifty years of memories and everlasting friendships.
Glassy Eyed
Saturday evening
The midnight hour
Whizzed by
Unbeknown
To the celebrating crowd
My friends are overly generous
And continue to make sure
My schooner is always full
I was keeping count
But that foolish tally
Is now nullified
And I am highly rarified
Sunday morning
Seven hours later
I am feeling brittlely vitrified
And glassy eyed
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
One of best Haiku, according to some of my fellow poets here in Geelong, which I penned in June 2020
Featured Photo Above: A painting by Carole Steven
One Land (a Haiku) Tullawalla, page 119
Upon our torn earth
Let’s sit around the camp fire
One circle of sand
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
The Tanka is a relatively new poem format for me and I think “A Window Stain” that I wrote back in January 2021 was my first Tanka.
A Window Stain, (a Tanka)
Evening tears ebb through
the window of last year’s stain
Fear closes the latch
Tonight, the moon is brighter
Today the pane is clearer
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Rudolf meets Frankie
Now, five weeks before Christmas
World peace is their wish
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
Today’s poem is one that I wrote while attending a “Writing Circle” meeting, hosted by the talented and gracious, Ali Grimshaw … If you are interested in attending one of her fabulous on-line “Zoom Sessions”, you can visit her site by clicking on this link
>> https://flashlightbatteries.blog/
Featured Image Above; my photo of my computer’s start-up screen this morning, from Windows Microsoft
Arousing “Itmims”
I hear a thunderous storm
Rumbling above
I see a chromatic sky
Illuminating my yard
I feel my romantic dreams
Arousing my Itmims* spacecraft
There ready and waiting
For time to chime in
My next mysterious rhyme
However
Time hears no commands
And silently resets her sundial’s hands
To reignite dawn’s golden strands
*Itmims: “Ivors Time Machine In Micro Space“
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
In May this year, I attended an Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop at the Foundry Studio & Gallery. Today’s Poem/Tanka is another piece I wrote from that day, and which I have not posted on my site before now.
Featured Image Above: My photograph of, Lee McGrath’s fascinating painting, “Winter Flame Tree” (Acrylic on canvas)
A Sad Winter Flame (a Tanka)
Dismayed, how to stop
Leaning against the hard rain
Unseasonal pain
Sodden, a sad winter flame
Downtrodden, a stained Ukraine
Ivor Steven (c) November 2022
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