Happy 47th Anniversary Carole… my sky is still blue and I am still lingering here without you …
Spiraling
I look
upward
near and far
on spiraling
warm air
a white petal
fluttering
like a dove
between
here and heaven
hovering
on a cloud of love
there
waving
from above
my angel
forever
faithful
I wave
“oh, my love,
aren’t you tired yet?”
Spiraling, Appears in my book “Tullawalla” as the ‘Dedication’ poem to my late wife, Carole
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
Above the Clover
Yesterday’s storm passed over
I am tip-toeing carefully
Above the torn clover
Buried by red autumn leaves
And fallen branches
I am traveling light
But there is shredded debris
Everywhere underfoot
With every step, I feel a crunch
Every crunch, I hear a snap
Every snap, I feel my heart crack
Inside this cracked heart
I see a track
Winding back
To our love shack
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Droplets of Joy”, 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 Magazine. >> https://coffeehousewriters.com/droplets-of-joy/
This poem is the second Ekphrastic piece I wrote from the Geelongs Writers Ekphrastic Workshop that I attended last week, and the attached photo below, is of Gale Jarmyn’s beautiful painting “Leaves in the Sunshine”, which inspired me to write this poem “Droplets of Joy”, and after chatting with her at the official opening of the Art Exhibition, (at which I recited the poem), she kindly allowed me to reproduce my photo of her lovely Painting, here on my Poetry Website.
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
“With a little help from my friend” … Ryan Stone, I have changed the finale word from ‘hand’ to Shadow … and presented the poem within my ‘drawing’ of a ‘Waterfall’ … My poem here originally began as a 4 line comment/anecdote on Ryan Stone’s “Hourglass” poem he posted three days ago, and I have rehashed those words and created an interesting “Pyramid Poem” … Thanks to Ryan for being the source of the “Watermarks” poem … please click on this link to visit his fabulous site >> https://daysofstone.com/2023/08/31/hourglass/
Watermarks (Revised)
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
My poem here originally began as a 4 line comment/anecdote on Ryan Stone’s “Hourglass” poem he posted two days ago, and I have rehashed those words and created an interesting “Pyramid Poem” … Thanks to Ryan for being the source of the “Watermarks” poem … please click on this link to visit his fabulous site >> https://daysofstone.com/2023/08/31/hourglass/
Watermarks
(a Pyramid Poem)
rivers flow
tides come and go
footprints in the sand
slip away with the undertow
dreams fade in a cloud of mist and snow
hollow watermarks drift over the poet’s shadow
Ivor Steven (c) Sept 2023
Spring has begun and the trees are In blossom … this glorious spring day has prompted me to repost “Blossom Over Jerusalem” a poem that also appears in my book Tullawalla
Over at Weekly Prompts, for the month of September, the Colour Challenge is: Brown. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> HERE … and here my poem captures the “brown” winter trees blossoming at the beginning of spring
Blossom Over Jerusalem
I write about the purple moon
That eats the night with a silver spoon
I write about the yellow sun
That bathes our day with gold by the ton
I hear the bird’s morning songs
They caress the world’s souls, right or wrong
I hear the animals’ mighty roars
They remind us of the great outdoors
I see the blue sky above
Where life’s white doves carry our love
I see the green pastures, beyond Jerusalem
Where life’s fruit trees blush with blossom
Tullawalla is Available From
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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
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AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:
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Ivor Steven (c) September 2023
Hello dear readers and followers, I am reposting this poem I wrote in July 2022 in response to Eugi’s “Moonwashed Weekly Prompt” – Peaceable … to visit her fabulous site, please click on >> Here
The White Azalea Peace Garden
I stare at the garden plaque
There on the ground
In front of the white Azalea bushes
I sit on the park bench and wonder
Here under a clear blue sky
Why? Does the sun shine on our world
I was born in nineteen fifty one
Here under a broken moon
During the second year of the Korean War
I stand and walk away
Where must I go?
To view the whole of the moon
I stood alone in my second-hand clothes
holding her worn out soul
gently, I slid her urn
into that hollow
inside the brick wall
a moment of heartache
hidden in a chasm of pain
stone-faced again
I stood alone in my timeless zone
not wanting to go home
Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
The Moon’s Ivory Eye
There, beyond the blue horizon
I see a white winter moon
Silhouetted against the afternoon sky
Do you see my vision?
An invisible silver spoon
Hiding the moon’s ivory eye
Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
The Morning After
Tracking south
Stepping from one quiet cloud
Onto a whispering cloud
Following powdered footprints
Without displacing a feather
Without cracking the sky’s
Hypnotic blue eggshell
And daydreaming of the south
Without you
Tullawalla is Available From
Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com
Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’
AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:
Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT
Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/
OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com
Ivor Steven (c) August 2023
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