Words & Thoughts – Ivor.Plumber/Poet

Resuming the Climb

Resuming the Climb

From beyond the grand universe of mime
The eternal wings of time
Embraced the muse of my rhymes
Rewinding my heartstrings’ chime

Words cascade onto my blue lines
And valiantly my soul resumes the climb

Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) January 2025

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

Becalmed Without an Alibi

Time to unshackle my inflatable raft

And reignite my charred draft

I left floating down the river

When I was the disabled driver

Of my Itmims space craft

Sadly, the fuel tank is running on empty

And the secondhand battery is almost dry

I need to recharge my world beyond page twenty

And being becalmed is not an imaginative alibi

Itmims; Ivor’s Time Machine In Micro Space

Tullawalla is Available From

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Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

Ex Comes Before Why

Do you get caught staring?

At an unknown person

Who returns your stare

With an angry glare

Sorry!

I was daydreaming

Inside an empty vortex

You were not in there

Nor next

My vacant gaze

Was mindlessly waiting

For my sparkling mirage

To turn into Cinderella’s carriage

Or am I?

The next ex

Before the why

Ivor Steven (c) February 2022

Featured Image Above: has been cropped from the photo below, which was taken by Derrick Knight, and again I sincerely thank Derrick for allowing me to reproduce his photos here, in conjunction with my poems. You may visit his fabulous site by clicking on this link
>> https://derrickjknight.com/

A Sunday Dream

did you hear the stars sing last night?

neither did I

did you see the sun cry at dawn?

neither did I

did you hear the bells ring this morning?

neither did I

did you feel the earth sigh today?

neither did I

there is you, I, and why

why cannot they see the sky?

why do they always lie?

why do they not cry?

Ivor Steven (c) December 2021