My imperfections
Are perfectly camouflaged
Underneath the trees
Where moon shadows protect me
From the world’s imperfectness
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Ivor Steven (c). December 2022
A poem I wrote in February 2019
I’m Home
I’m not quite on song
Home’s where I belong
Humming ballad songs
I’m going out, right or wrong
I’ve made up my mind
Even though life’s unkind
We only live once
And this is my dance
Dreams are living on
Life shouldn’t be postponed
Realities push and thrive
My future is still alive
She’ll gently take my hand
And show me the distant lands
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
All Featured Images: we’re taken at the MacArthur Park Wetlands Reserve, Miners Rest.
Ballroom Dancer
We had a dream
Life was a dance floor
She was the Ballroom dancer
And took the lead
In step, I followed
Along her path to the park
We played on the old swing
She flew higher and higher
I watched her smile and laugh
We had unfinished plans
When abruptly harsh rain
Flooded her dance floor
She slipped out of my arms
I could not catch her
Flowing gown
Nor stop the rocky raindrops
From falling down
Our waltz was over
Save the last dance for me
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Ivor Steven (c). December 2022
A poem I wrote this time last year, and my hopeful Christmas message is repeated …
Featured Images: Taken at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
Nurture, Give, and Receive
It’s a material world
That leaves us in a whirl
What we really need
Is a planet without greed
That needs our minds to proceed
By growing and nurturing her seeds
Then our journey becomes that of the giver
Rather than being nature’s grieving receiver
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
My article from “Go Dog Go Cafe” that I posted this morning >> godoggocafe.com/2022/12/22/throwback-friday-an-emerald-tapestry-by-ivor-steven/
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” ― Leonard Cohen
Featured Image Above: taken near Lal Lal, not far from Ballarat.
An Emerald Tapestry
I resumed living last decade
Narrowly surviving gravities finality
Now, I lean against my tower’s balustrade
That overlooks an emerald valley
Echoing from my castle’s balcony
I hear Leonard Cohen’s words about life’s pagentry
Outlining the spiritual tapestry
Of commonality, morality, and vitality
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
The Midweek Challenge on Weekly Prompts is: Curiosities. Please visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here and I think my poem below is curious piece about the Winter Solstice
Featured Images Above & Below: were taken by Derrick Knight, who kindly allows me use his photos in conjunction with my poems >> https://derrickjknight.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/rising-ground-mist/
Long Night Moon
Dawn’s winter sunlight
Filters through the gloom
And softly kisses everything
The loitering ground mist rises
Above the cold night’s
Bed of overlaying ferns
As the season’s solstice
Stealthily tiptoes away
From the long night moon *
* The Long Night Moon gets its name because the full moon in December occurs near the solstice, which has the longest night of the year.
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
Resting At My Brother’s House (an Acrostic Poem)
Relaxing on this comfy new bed
Electronically adjustable
Special settings for reading and writing
Time is neither coming nor going
Internally, I feel at home
Nourished and thoroughly spoiled
Gratefully, living in the lap of luxury
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
Me and my sister, Miffy … …. … Brother Danny and birthday cake
Hello dear readers and followers, I am on Holidays, resting at my siblings places in Ballarat and will not blogging very much for the next 2 weeks.
On The Seventh Day Before Christmas
Today a family tradition was broken
Our Christmas day luncheon
Was held a week early
As was brother Danny’s
Seventy-fourth birthday
And we did not gather
For the usual home cooked feast
Instead, we entertained ourselves
At a local riverside restaurant
Where we still raised our glasses
And enjoyed the luxury of being waited on
“Knowing, Mum and Dad would be smiling down on us”
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
Featured Image Above: Taken by Derrick Knight >> https://derrickjknight.com/2022/12/14/tingling-toes/
An Empty Bootie
The chilly winter’s day
Turned hard and bitter
“be a good little chap Dave
could you be brave
and venture back to the frozen lake
your baby sister Ava
has lost a bootie
and the weather is too cold
for her to go without“
Dave shrugs his shoulders
And trudges off
“Oh Ava, I wonder
What’s taking Dave so long”
Suddenly two hysterical children
Came running towards them
“Help!”
“we just a boy
fall through the ice
on the frozen lake
we look into the hole
but all we saw
was a babies bootie
“He was Gone!”
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
Here is a copy of my article I posted on “Go Dog Go Cafe” this morning,
>> http://godoggocafe.com/2022/12/15/throwback-friday-the-faeries-of-frys-lane-by-ivor-steven/
A poem I wrote in May 2020 and now is published in my book “Perceptions”, page 3, prompted by Derrick Knight’s Featured Photo Above: ‘Hedgerow faeries along Fry’s Lane’ >> https://derrickjknight.com/2020/05/21/hedgerow-fairies/
The Faeries of Fry’s Lane
Walking down Fry’s Lane
Sheltering from the misty rain
I did spy among the hedgerow berries
A Frolic of mystical faeries
Like iridescent glowing canaries
A fluttering of night-time luminaries
Trying not to disturb their magical home
I quietly asked them, “Areyouallalone”
The faeries laughed and danced
They replied, “Your visionisby perchance
and your dreams may turn to stone
if you wish for a golden throne”
Suddenly the glittering sands of time
Illuminating the faeries wings of rhyme
Begun vanishing from their falling stars
And the faeries quickly flew back to their green Avatar
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2022
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