Let us join the movement, Against The Next War, and have your say. Please reblog or write your own story, and join Paul Sunstone, in the campaign for Peace. << click here. I’m reposting today, with this song “Spirit Bird”, by Xavier Rudd, and his lyrics are a pure statement from the heart, please read along with music, and cry with me, for our spirits and our land.
“Leaving us
Stunned
Hollow ashamed”
Hungrily I’m eating a liquor chocolate
A selfish heavenly delight
Arousing my old minds senses
I wonder
What she would be thinking
Looking down from the stars
Through her sensitive olive eyes
Her everlasting smile
Her gracious courage
Her generous heart
Her forgiving soul
Her love for me and you
I wonder
What she would be thinking
Seeing these futile bloody wars
Through her compassionate olive eyes
The dead and maimed
The millions of shuffling homeless
The distraught broken families
The crying children locked in sheds
The desperate refugees with no beds
I wonder
What she would be thinking
While she preciously holds the last white dove
Observing these senseless wars
That never never end
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Maybe she’d ask you for a chocolate 🍫
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That would definitely be a wondrous treat. xx
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I want to cry.
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I just wish for our world to be a better place,..
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As do I.
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😊 I think it’s a big wish though
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Still have to try. Head up and believe.
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Why do too few people listen,
to the brilliant among us?
Like you.
Why do too many people listen to Donald-Duck Trump?
Why do people pay attention to the Kardashians?
I am ashamed of ourselves.
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I’m afraid us humans(adults) have a lot to answer for, but most of the time it comes down to greed(money and more money) and selfishness, and of course that feeds the basic ingredients for corruption,…… Oh shit, sorry, I don’t mean to preach, you already know 🙄… Cheers, Ivor 🌏 xx
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A Thoughtful and beautifully written poem. You are a good man Ivor in this broken world of ours. She would be very proud of you that’s for sure.
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Oh, if we had a world full of people like Carole, our planet would indeed be a beautiful place. xx🌏🌍🌎💛
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It is truly heartbreaking that this will never end and those who can do something about it won’t do anything .
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Thank you for reading and commenting, and indeed the greed in our world seems to be insatiable. We shall battle on and do our best, we are the writers and we have a say, with the power of our pens. 😊 Oh, sorry, I do get carried away….. Cheers, Ivor 🌏 🌍🌎😊
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You are kindly welcome. I totally agree with you. We must not give up hope and never cease to raise our voice. May the ink in our pens flow forever! Oops! Your fervour is contagious, I too got carried away! 😊
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Probably a good contagious way to be.
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Definitely.
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love chocolates, not war, love your lady with the olive eyes, if she could you know she would do something about all this Ivor. She has stained your heart with her goodness.
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Your kind words are full of goodness, dear Gina.
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not enough Ivor, I learn more and more about this lovely lady and she becomes such a part of this blog too, i like how you include her in everything.
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It’s good therapy for me, and always did everything together, hehe, we were quite a team to be reckoned with. She already writing with Amnesty International 40 years ago, before I even knew there was another world.
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she was a woman with much vision.
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As the saying goes, “she had a heart of pure gold”,
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An excellent poem with a profound message
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Thank you Derrick, I wonder if “They” will will ever listen to the people…….
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If “they” don’t it will not be too long before there are no people to listen to!
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And that my friend is a sad reality.
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Only if it suits them
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Almost twenty years into a new century, and these wars do appear as if they are never going to end. So well done Ivor. Sadly, so much truth in your words.
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Thank you Drew, and I wish there wasn’t so much truth to it all,
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Agreed
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I can’t make sense of anything so senseless Ivor.
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Most of us feel the same way, “They” shall need to start listening ….
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TRUTH!
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“The crying children locked in sheds”
That brought it home to me.
Thanks for the post
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Thank you Paul, I’m not sure my words worked properly, but we all sit around within our own high ideals eating the chocolates of life, and watch, and watch, and watch, wars, wars, wars, like war is just a TV show. humans have lost themselves in their unreal digital world, and become just like the old idiot square box……
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Heaven is full of sad souls who have watched and still watch the never ending wars. Beautiful poem my friend.
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Thank you dear Walt, and yes I think the poem worked well for me.
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You’re very welcome Ivor.
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Make hugs not war. {{{hugs}}}
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This world is certainly a complex place to live on. Why must there be so much hatred? When kindness and peace are so much easier. 💗
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The hatred comes from the greed and selfishness
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So very true indeed. 😦
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I liked how you kept mentioning her eyes.
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Thank you, I actually wrote a poem called “Olive Eyes” https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/olive-eyes/
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That poem immediately brought tears to my eyes. How precious she was to you–and you to her.
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Thank you very much for your gracious word, it took me thirty five years before I wrote about that day. xx
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