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Where Have The Faeries Gone

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WHERE HAVE THE FAERIES GONE?

BY IVOR STEVEN/

AUGUST 21, 2023/

Ivor Steven / Coffee House Writers

Deep in the enchanted forest
Under mossy rocks and water-reeds
I found an iron-bar door
Lying over a sinkhole in the creek bed

I wondered and yelled out
Eerily, a gentle voice replied
“Do not worry, we are sheltering here”
“Why are you hiding?” I inquired
“We are waiting for humanity
to stop the carnage on our planet”

Then, peering up from lower in the chasm
I witnessed that the small luminous eyes
Of Earth’s guardian faeries
Were en masse, joyless, and crying

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Where Have the Faeries Gone? is in this week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, I am now writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Where Have the Faeries Gone?”, 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/where-have-the-faeries-gone/

Music/Video: by Sigur Ros, “Ylur”, translated means, Warmth

Ivor Steven © August 2023

These Days, Haunt Me

Levering my leg like an old toad

I stumble and bumble

Along my yellow-brick road

But I will not crash or crumble

Floundering, unbalanced, and unsteady

From a thumping migraine in my head

Piercing my eyeballs

With unfeathered darts

That continually find their mark

My neurosurgeon calls them

“Post-stroke fatigue moments”

Four years on!

They haunt me like “Jaws”

With the go button stuck on pause

But fortunately, after two days rest

I am back to my normal alien best

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Burning the Fears

Over at Weekly Prompts, the word: Backwards is the Weekend Challenge. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here. – Below, I followed Sue’s suggestion and went “Backwards” through my files and found this intriguing piece from September 2017
Featured Image: Artwork, by Kerri Costello, Graphic Design Artist, my amazing niece/second cousin, who lives in Philadelphia, and I think this was the first design that she created for my poetry website.

Burning the Fears

I’m frightened, and too scared to show my face

And knowingly, I’m arriving late

The ghouls are spying from the hill

And lower fools are poisoning her will

Underneath her, a wicker complete

Above, she’s suspended from a stake

The bonfires started, against the rules

And the crowds rejoicing, as the fire drools

Waiting agog, for her garments to ignite

The flames are crackling below her tonight

And the mob’s listening for her ungodly screams

But there’s not a whimper! Within she beams

And secretly, I see her black cat’s drowning tears

Are extinguishing all her burning fears

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

True

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein

True

If there is something

I could do

I would do anything

To save you

Mother Nature, you are everything

I look up to

My words are nothing

Compared to you

You are the orchestrator of things

With a balcony view

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Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Throwback Friday, The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin

Today I am presenting another poem that will be appearing in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. I wrote ‘The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin’ in October 2020, and the poem will be the opening piece in the Weird Section, of Chapter 9. Humour, Fantasy, Faeries, and Weird.

The Reincarnation of a Pumpkin

My locked bubble is about to go boom

A year I’ve been a stranger in my own tomb

Under a pumpkin lid, hiding my gloom

Where my world was a rotting cave of doom

Now these orange walls are my life-giving womb

Being reborn like a smiling old groom

I’m breaking away from the master’s dead blooms

Escaping on the green witch’s magical broom

Flying over the full moon of autumn

Where I’ll be able to wear my mask and costume

Hidden under my orange Kaftan from Khartoum

And I’ll invade the newsrooms, and the children’s bedrooms

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/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Our Clear Blue Cookie Jar

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is: Cookie Jars … please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my Metaphorical response to the Prompt.

Our Clear Blue Cookie Jar

Like a springtime butterfly

I brightly fluttered outside

Immediately the blue neon sky

Illuminated my clear blue cookie jar

Full of nature’s dazzling delights

Looking through the crystal glass

I saw green leafed trees

Swinging in the breeze

I heard their wooden heartbeats

Singing about how the forest faeries

Big clear blue jar of cookies

Were to be shared by all adversaries

Who needed their earthly remedies

To become compassionate goodies

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Freedom is for the Birds

My poem today is created from comments that I posted to other poets sites. in response to their creative poems. The fellow writers in Stanza order are …
1. Sadje >> https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/2023/08/04/when-eyes-confuse-the-mind-a-pantoum/
2. Grace >> https://graceofthesun.com/unchained-2/
3 & 4. Bart >> https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2023/08/14/dive/

Freedom is for the Birds

What to believe

What our eyes see

Or what our mind needs

In freedom, our hearts glide with pride

In chains, our souls cower and hide

Is freedom only for the Birds?

Humans, I am lost for words

Their main appetite is greed

Without planting any seeds

Is Freedom still possible?

Or a mission impossible

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/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

Above the Flames (Revised)

A poem I originally wrote in November 2019 during the devastating bushfires that were engulfing Australia … due to recent tragic events, I am presenting a revised version today …

Above the Flames (Revised)

Mother nature has decided

Humans!

You’ve been given eons of time

Humans!

You’ve held the torch, but failed to see the light

Our Mother

Is rekindling her furnace

She’s back-burning her own forests

Projecting black smoke signals

Obvious messages, to feel, hear and see

Yes Father

Where there is smoke, there is fire

She’s furious, and our planet’s ablaze

Sisters and Brothers

Feel her scorching heat

Blistering your swollen feet

Hear her crackling explosions

Piercing your deafened eardrums

See her soaring flames

Blinding your greedy eyes

Humans!

There’s no point, looking up to the sky

Seeking your saviour in heaven

You are not in charge

Abandon your selfish barrage

Our Mother

Controls your clouds and rain

It’s time to show her Kindness, and end your pain

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023

The Weather’s Like a Boomerang

Over at “Weekly Prompts”, the Weekend Challenge is the word: Bucolic, please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here … Below is my ‘Rural Weather’ response to the Prompt

The Weather’s Like a Boomerang

Saturday afternoon

We are stuck in the lounge room

Talking to the idiot-box

Outside there’s a winter monsoon

And the rain-god’s drops

Are as big as tablespoons

Full of crushed ice-blocks

Our day of play has gone

Tweedily tweet! The cuckoo sang

“Time to yawn

until tomorrow’s dawn

while waiting for tonight’s moon

to throw the next boomerang”

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/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) August 2023