The lines written in Italic, are book titles from my library….
My Story, “From Every Moment A Second”
From the beginning of my lonely times
When I Was Gone
And there was
The Black In My Bedroom, The Star In My Sky
I would return
Close To Nature
My world began opening up
The Day I Saw The Hummingbird
Singing the tune of
The Wordless Songbook
I started to see
A different Kind Of Angel
Behind the closing of
The Yellow Door
After reading about desires in a
Book Of Longing
My Bible became
The Flame
And now in life
I Have A Bird To Whistle
Ivor Steven (c) May 2020
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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.
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What a beautiful piece Ivor.
“Behind the closing of
The Yellow Door
After reading about desires in a
Book Of Longing”
Splendid!
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You always write such lovely lines.
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Your poems are always so beautiful I wish I could write like that!
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Thank you Debby … I had the book titles as my helpers…
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you are so clever and a word wizard, ivor
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Always beautifully written and choice of music Cohen hits the spot.
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Great poem, I love the form.
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That’s very clever, Ivor. Love it.
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Thank you Irina… my words and the book title lines seemed to blend in ok…..xx
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Cleverly done, Ivor. 🙂
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Wonderful and creative! and you’ve woven some good book titles into your poem! 🙂
Love that song/vid! I can’t remember…Have you seen the Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is a 2019 documentary film? I found it poignant and beautiful.
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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No I’ve not seen the documentary yet…. maybe I’ll have a search and see if It’s available over here….. Thank you Carolyn ((Hugs))
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Awww. That was pretty brilliant to get all of those titles in there! 🙂
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The Yellow Door, fitted in there perfectly 💛🚪
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It made my heart happy Ivor 🙂
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your lines flow beautifully, how so clever to write them like this – genius!
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Not sure I’m a genius, but it was an interesting concept to weave my thoughts via the book titles. 🤔😉😊… I’ve been been in bed tonight since 8.00pm,… I had another hard day being a plumber 😏
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Have been down that road with book titles also Ivor great concept another you might care to try if you have not already done so is to take an album or cd and work a story/poem around the sleeve titles.
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I’ve done song titles before but not album or CD titles… Wow…. mind boggling,… I’ve hundreds… 😅🤔
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No time like the present Ivor, striking whilst the irons hot.
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The iron has gone cold and rusty, another hard on the plumber’s tools 🛠️😒
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What a unique and clever poem, Ivor. Brilliant!
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Thank you Eugenia, yes, the book title lines, where like little prompts, for my poem lines…… 🤔😊💛
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Very creative and well done, Ivor! 🧡 💛 💚
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I love this.
And I always enjoy your music picks. That’s such an interesting song, isn’t it?
Hope you’re doing okay xo
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Thank you Vanessa, yes it was an interesting way for me to construct a poem…..
I’m going ok, under these mentally sapping and tiring times….I hope you are well and staying safe..💛🌏
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Creative! I really like this! 😊
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Thank you… It was an interesting project for me…
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