Tag: Poetry/Australia

Throwback Friday, Dark Blue

A poem I wrote in January 2022, however, as is my way, I have revised and renamed the poem for my article today … the original title was Black and Blue



Dark Blue



fatigue is chorused by hidden mockingbirds

lethargic attitudes fall over backwards

tiredness melts blue lines into blurry words



weariness distorts midnight’s dark thoughts

and exhaustion eventually sinks a listing Argonaut



Today’s music/video: Is Damien Rice singing Leonard Cohen’s classic “Famous Blue Raincoat” … and fortunately, I am going see the amazing Damien Rice perform “Live” here in Geelong next Thursday night …







Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Dome Poets, Anthology

You are invited to the Book Launch of “Faces, Places, Emotional Spaces” an Anthology by the “Dome Poets”, a subsidiary group of Geelong Writers Inc.

** Saturday 20th May

** 2.00 pm til 4.00 pm

** Boronggook Library, Drysdale

** 2-8 Wyndham St, Drysdale

RSVP, here, or SMS me on 0437278888



Attached Below: One of my Poems (From 10) in the Athology








Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Lines To Nowhere (Revised)

In response to Eugi’s Moonwashed Musings Photo Prompt: Skyline … To visit her fabulous site please click on >> Here


Lines To Nowhere (Revised) 


As my drapes fell apart 

I saw a setting eclipse 

And I decided to walk 

To the south side of the moon 

Carrying my plastic spoon


 

There, a giant vanilla cheesecake 

Rolled over the crusty moonscape 

On a giant crumbly base 

Topped with blueberries and cream 

Laying here in bed, life is but a dream


 

The midnight skyline begins to drool 

Am I a full moon’s fool? 

I will meet you at our old school

Down by the empty pool 

This time we will not be ridiculed 






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) May 2023

Happy Birthday Mom

Mom’s birthday and Carole’s birthday were not far apart, and appropriately they enjoyed a very close relationship …
Today is my mother’s birthday, and next Sunday is Mothersday, and coincidently, today was also Carole’s funeral day … Here is my tribute to those 2 magnificent women in my life…


My Women


After I had left the hem

Without women

I could not have survived my time

I would not have braved the climb

Ladies you were my rhyme

My mothers of thyme


Helping me roll away the stone

Maintaining these old bones

Repairing the bridges, I had burnt

Reciting the messages, I had learnt

Cheering from the sidelines

Supporting my broken designs

Women of my rhymes

Mothers for a lifetime








Ivor Steven (c) May 9th 2023

Reflections and Revelations, edited by Susi Bocks

Once again thank you to Susi, >>https://iwriteher.com/2023/04/26/reflections-revelations-has-published/ for selecting my poems in her outstanding Anthology, “Reflections and Revelations, The Short of It, Vol 2” … Today I am presenting the second page (33) of my pieces from her fascinating Collection of Short poems and prose … which I have scanned directly from copy of the anthology and attached below …
The paperback version is available on Amazon.com NOW!! If you’re interested in getting a copy, please CLICK THIS LINK!








Ivor Steven (c) May 2023

Unforgettable


Yesterday

Was one of those days


At lunchtime

I went to the Box Office Cafe

I forgot

And left without paying

For my coffee and cake


In the afternoon

I had a doctor’s appointment

I forgot

And left without paying

For the Fee at reception


After Dinner

I caught a bus into town

I forgot

That the ‘open mic’ night

Occurs on the second Thursday of each month


This morning

I watch the sunshine

Flickering on her handmade curtains

I remember

And I relight her candle again







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) May 2023

Under The Snow

A special poem I wrote, after I’d taken my Lady to hospital for the last time, on the day of her 65th birthday, eleven years ago. Hello Carole, and I wonder if you still wonder that I wonder, about wandering on your celestial star…….

Under The Snow.

We emanate to a birthday.

We deflate to a final day.

Birthdays, they all come, they all go.

Birthdays, in the sunshine, under the snow.

Birthdays, slow to mature, quickly an aeon.

Birthdays, before we are born, after we are gone.

Birthdays, hanging on by a breath.

Birthdays, nailed to a cross ’til death.

What’s it all mean to be alive and cry.

What’s it all mean to live and to die.








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) May 4th 2023


Here I Am, Eleven Years On 

Today, May 3rd, is the eleventh Anniversary of Carole’s passing




Here I Am, Eleven Years On 


here I am shuffling on 

the same old yellow brick road 

that I wandered on eleven years ago 


here I am running from 

the same old dark storm 

that I escaped from eleven years ago 


here I am blushing under  

the same old halfmoon 

that I sheltered under eleven years ago 


here I am dreaming about 

the same old red head 

that I dreamed about eleven years ago 








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) May 3rd 2023

Reflections & Revelations, The Short Of It, Volume 2

Forty-seven poets and writers with astute observations about living, emotions, and our world were featured online in The Short of It publication in 2022. The best of their thoughts fill the pages of this compilation. They will leave you with rich impressions, some providing mysteries to ponder but also many which speak deep truths. Each piece by the poets and writers presented in this collection shows us, with depth and succinctness, what was on their minds. Every one of their poems, as the title of this book suggests, brings to the surface their “reflections and revelations.”
A big thank you to Susi Bocks for editing and producing this outstanding Anthology, and I am proud to have been selected as one of many in a talented list of writers.
“The paperback version is available on Amazon.com NOW!! To get your copy, please CLICK THIS LINK! “




Here are my “Short” poetic entries in Anthology:


Facades

Wearing your best vest 
Is not necessarily a truthful test 
A facade for a restless chest

Again

Summer’s golden plains 
And stormy rains 
Erase winter stains

After Twilight

Starry, starry nights 
Shine on, shine on bright 
Please stay, please stay within sight 

Earthquake

I feel the earth quake
Fracturing tears off my soul
Tremors from my heart

Hail

Hailstones, hard as nails
Falling frozen razor blades
Storm’s icy sharp balls





Ivor Steven (c) April 2023

Afterglow

Put another log on the fire, while I travel to Tasmania with the two Philadelphia girls and three other Aussie cousins … Thursday 27th April – Monday 1st May


Afterglow 
  

 
 
After a frenetic time 

I feel like a burnt-out hollow log 

My charred core is clinging 

Onto nature’s dampened fringes 

Of Autumn leaves and fallen branches 

Where flora stealthily regenerates


 

Steadily, my diminished cavern 

Is growing wider 

And my ambient lantern 

Is glowing brighter 








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) April 2023