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Six Shades of Red

“Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can’t buy
That’s true love and home grown tomatoes.” ~ John Denver





Six Shades of Red

My small sweet bite tomatoes
Progressively ripen through six stages

  • Green – the little fruit is completely green
  • Breakers – a slightly tarnished yellow
  • Turning – between orangy yellow and pink
  • Pink – like a teenager … still some growing up to do
  • Light Red – almost dressed and ready to go out
  • Red – bright cherry red and delightfully delicious








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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Throwback Friday, Our Random Kingdom

Today’s Throwback poem does not appear on my website, but I saw it by chance in my Tullawalla Booklet, No. 24, I Softly Walk, from July 2021. So now “Our Random Kingdom” is officially on my website.






Our Random Kingdom



Sometimes we put pieces away 
Because our emotions altered the next day 
But the thoughts are there to stay 
And arise again to be an honest display  

The whispering wind is an elusive creature
Mother nature’s operatic music teacher
Our random sculptor’s hands of life 
Shaping our fate with her palate knife 

That damn old clock never stops
Not even for a pause
To chat with Santa Claus
Even Father Time’s sundial shadow
Enternally works every tomorrow
But let me say, there will come a day
When love will be here to stay 







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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books



OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

My Mind is Flying, is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine edition.

Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “My Mind is Flying” is in this week’s edition. …
To read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/my-mind-is-flying/








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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Another Hot Summer’s Day (a Madrigal)


The madrigal (developed by Geoffrey Chaucer), and thank you to David of Skeptics Kaddish, for introducing me to this interesting poetry format
>> https://skepticskaddish.com/2025/02/21/the-threshold-or-the-soul/

Here are the rules:

Usually written in iambic pentameter.
Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.
All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains.
The poem follows this rhyme pattern:

Line 1: A
Line 2: B1
Line 3: B2

Line 4: a
Line 5: b
Line 6: A
Line 7: B1

Line 8: a
Line 9: b
Line 10: b
Line 11: A
Line 12: B1
Line 13: B2





Another Hot Summer’s Day (a Madrigal)

Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”
And the moon is just looking for a cool seat

For his normal silvery midday disguise
And feeling sorry for the world’s sunburnt feet
Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”

Today is just another day for the flies
Where they thrive on digesting everything sweet
And infesting the uncovered sunbaked meat
Another hot summer’s day of clear blue skies
The sun says “I’m allowed to turn up the heat”
And the moon is just looking for a cool seat






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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Sails and Wings






Sails and Wings

The local yachts
are out sailing on the calm bay
The coastal birds
are flying above the cool seaspray

I sense it is nature’s way
of reminding me about my dream
To clip on my wings and fly far away
Toward the northern hemisphere
and visit my cousins on Vancouver Island






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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Walking in the Hard Rain








Walking in the Hard Rain



“Welcome,” said Nature with a grin
The second day of Autumn
Was wet with a cold westerly wind
And the hard pouring rain
Felt like icy needles and pins

However, without commands or demands
Here I live, in this far away land
Where a coward’s hammer and nails can not pierce my hand
Or deter my protests from a flooded grandstand

I hear only helter skelter from the expellers
As I think about the children
Sheltering in their damp cellars
Hiding from Putin’s hard rain
A deluge of bombs and bullets
Callously sent to kill and maim









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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Tullawalla:

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OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

The Grey Afterglow





The Grey Afterglow

Yesterday
My world was a tomb
Today
I fled my room
Away
From the gloom

Out there
The sky was grey

Do you know?
Not all clouds have dull shadows
Rainbows know how to play the banjo
Sunflowers can grow in the snow
And all birds enjoy putting on an airshow
In the middle of Nature’s achromatic afterglow







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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books


OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Twilight’s Yellow Sunset

Featured Image Image Above, was taken at 7.54 pm

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Colour Challenge for this month is Yellowish.
To visit their fabulous site, please click on >> Here

On our walkies this evening I took these “yellow sunset” photos with my iPhone (Sunset time was officially 8.03 pm)

7.44 pm, 7.49 pm, and 7.51 pm

7.54 pm, and 7.57 pm






Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Suicide






Suicide

there is a fine line
between pleasure and pain
there are bad moments
between life and death
there is black space
between here and the sun
there is night
when there is no light
and there is only dark
on the other side of the moon







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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books




OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) March 2025

Throwback Friday, Freckles And Dark Hair


Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from June 2018.


Freckles and Dark Hair


I am a hybrid of mixed origin
An off-spring of my parents
Dad was a red-head with freckles
From Tasmania, a convict great-grandson
Mum had dark hair and olive skin
A German and Scottish background
She was born in Penang Malaysia
They were worlds apart
The great war shaped their paths
Time and peace brought them together
I’m their hybrid, with freckles and dark hair






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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books



OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com





Ivor Steven (c) February 2025