Whoops: I’ve just updated this article … The scans below clearly indicate my progress. As is my way, once I have pressed the “Start Button”, it’s all systems full steam ahead, and there is no stopping this Poet from downunder while he is on a roll.
From my selected 189 poems, I have now categorized them into ’11 Chapters’ and have already completed Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
Short Introduction: Time Hears No Sound
Time doesn’t tick for the poet—it drifts, echoes, and sometimes disappears. In this fourth collection, I invite you to walk with me through landscapes where clocks are irrelevant and memory is the true measure. These eleven chapters explore time as myth, movement, silence, and resistance. From the cosmic to the coffee-stained, from war’s waste to fairy laughter, each poem listens for what time cannot say—and what we must.
Let the silence speak.
Introduction Poem
Lost and Found – or – There, Here, and Where?
There
Lying on solid ground
My shallow shadow wears no face
And utters no sound
Here
My outline bears no carapace
Where
On a graveside mound
I see my darkness
Waiting to be found
Chapters:
1. Once Upon a Time
2. Nature: An Unbiased Timekeeper
3. Time: Hears No Commands
4. The Universe: Infinity Times Infinity
5. Dreaming: A Poet’s Favourite Pastime
6. Travel and Life: Time Flies
7. Governments and Leaders: Behind the Times
8. War: A Waste of Time
9. Humour, Fantasy and Fairies: Timeless
10. Time’s Short Poems: Haiku, Tanka, etc.
11. Poetry in Slow Motion: Who’s Keeping Time?
Ivor Steven (c) October 2025
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