Tag: Poetry/Australia

Throwback Friday, A Line in the Sand

For today’s Throwback Friday poem, written in April 2021, I have revised the first stanza and altered the final line.  



A Line in the Sand (Revised #3)

Did you hear the latest hocus pocus?
About the world’s leaders’ lack of focus
Who resemble mythical fiery dragons
Ready to torch the refugee wagons
With their sponsored guns and cannons

In my mind, I am searching for the olive tree
Please come walk with me
We will go to the seashore
And watch the dove’s soar

Hold my other hand
As I scribe a line in the sand

A message to the sky
Love and peace I decry
Will I receive an honest reply?
Or nothing, but more blind eyes?










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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Full Moon Rising

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday challenge is – Nurturing. To visit their fabulous site, click on >> Here
Today, my poem is about the “Nurturing”/guiding powers of the full moon.


Full Moon Rising



I am an aging seagull
And I must be out of my skull

Thinking that I’m fit enough
To fly further than the bluff

No matter, there is a full moon
To guide me across this barren dune

My journey is a lonely one
But I’m not to be outdone

I know there is another blue ocean
Beyond this World’s wavering horizon









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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Live and Let Die





Live and Let Die

The misty Full Moon sighed
My garden Magpie cried
And the Twilight Bunnies
In a startled stride
Ran away to hide

The Titan Arum* flower had died
And with compassionate pride
I felt like a loveless bride
Speechless and teary-eyed



* Titan Arum, the Corpse Plant.








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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

The Wounded Blackbirds, 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 “The Wounded Blacbirds” 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/the-wounded-blackbirds/



 








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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

The World’s Blue Lagoon (a Tanka)





The World’s Blue Lagoon (a Tanka)

Do not wear a frown
Step straight out of your nightgown
Without slowing down
Don your wings and fly above
The world’s blue lagoon of love











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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Not Perfect, But Valuable

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
– Alice Walker


Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is the word; Watch … to visit their fabulous click on >> Here
My poem below was prompted by Watching the tree’s different shaped trunks and roots



Not Perfect, But Valuable



My roots are splayed and distorted
But I am not disabled
My trunk is grey and twisted
But I am alive and growing


My branches are soft and frail
But I am mentally and physically
Strong enough to reach for the sky
And propagate my life-giving leaves


“The true meaning of life
is to plant trees,
under whose shade
you do not expect to sit” … Nelson Henderson











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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Frankie Meets a Friendly Ferret





Frankie Meets a Friendly Ferret

I had Frankie on his lead
And he was enjoying his walk
Across the Garden’s lawn area

Then to our surprise
We were joined by a friendly ferret
And he was on a lead too!

While Frankie and the ferret
Curiously sniffed each other
The ferret’s owner and I
Had a convivial chat











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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
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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Visiting the “Corpse Plant”

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend’s Challenge is the word ‘Method’. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here.
There was a ‘Method’ in our madness of visiting a “Corpse” today …

The “Corpse Plant” getting ready to bloom, and Frankie is watching closely






Visiting the “Corpse Plant”

Today we went to Geelong’s glorious Botanical Gardens
Our main objective was to see, the “Corpse Plant” flowering
Also named the Titan Arum
This extraordinary plant
Is renowned for the powerful smell
It releases when it blooms
A scent likened to rotting flesh
Hence its nickname, the “corpse plant.”

Alas, “Not today Josephine”
But “We’ll be Back”, tomorrow and the next day
To capture a live viewing of the flower in full bloom
As it only blooms unpredictably, just once every ten years
The corpse plant bloom itself lasts only 24 to 48 hours
So we’ll need to visit quickly to catch this unique sight



The video below is a live YouTube broadcast of the “Corpse” plant. Hopefully, you’ll be able to view the unusual flower as it blooms.



And here is a “Time Lapse” video from Dunedin City Council, New Zealand …






I had a difficult time trying to choose an appropriate music/video for today’s post, and I eventually selected this one by “Of Monsters and Men”









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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Again, the Wild Wind Wins





Again, the Wild Wind Wins

Again, the wind is howling
Even the old owls are hiding
The magpies are wisely staying grounded
And at the fallen crossroad lights
The traffic is totally discombobulated
Again, the world is easily dumbfounded











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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024

Throwback Friday, Wryly the Moon Sighs

I wrote today’s Throwback Friday poem in November 2022, however, all the attached images were taken at last night’s sunset.



Wryly the Moon Sighs



Looking up into the sky
There, beyond the clouds
The world’s twilight pilot
Our phlegmatic half-moon
Petitions our eyes


And spiritually
Wryly sighs at our demise
Then wisely
Waits for Sunset’s disguise











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Ivor Steven (c) November 2024