You Cannot Shoot Or Electrocute It, by Ivor Steven

My poem ‘You Cannot Shoot or Electrocute It’ is published at “The Lockdown Journal” and thank you to the editor Mona for accepting my poem….

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You Cannot Shoot Or Electrocute It

I see grey clouds drifting across the sky

And I hear the great white bear continue to lie

You cannot shoot it

Nor can you electrocute it

I cannot hear your bullets blazing

Nor can your bombs do the erasing

Your insincere words cannot stop it

Nor can your falsehoods hide it

I cannot see your pain and fears

Nor can I see your sympathetic tears

Your money keeps you safe in the ivory tower

But will your money send the people flowers

Ivor Steven (c)  March 2020

Bob Dylan, wrote these profound lyrics 50 years ago…

“All Along The Watchtower”

“There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,
“There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it…

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

20 thoughts on “You Cannot Shoot Or Electrocute It, by Ivor Steven”

  1. Beautiful and raw with so much meaning. I re-read this a couple of times to really absorb it, and the meaning is powerful. A fantastic piece with stunning imagery.

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    1. Thank you Lucy, and yes there is strong message in my little poem, in the end, the fight is up to “us”, and the work of the “helpers” and the “scientists”
      Not the politicians
      Not their bombs
      Not their continual falsehoods
      They still hide under corporate aprons… 💙🌏🤔

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    1. Thank you Rose…Yes ” us” humans will survive… in the end, the fight is up to “us”, and the work of the “helpers” and the “scientists”
      Not the politicians
      Not their bombs
      Not their continual falsehoods
      They still hide under corporate aprons… 💙🌏🤔
      not because of politicians

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