Month: January 2021

A White Wall, Whiter Than White (Re-whitewashed)

This Weekend on Weekly Prompts, it’s their first Colour Challenge of 2021 and appropriately they have chosen the colour: White. Please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking >> Here. My poem is a “Re-Whitewash from 2 years ago..

A White Wall, Whiter Than White

I’m lying here in my white-walled bedroom

My body’s been feeling white-hot

The white ceiling fan is cooling me down

Laying under only white sheets

Covering my white skin

This is not the White House

I don’t lie that much

I’ve not white false hair

So my white halo stays on

Without looking like a silly clown

Outside, my great side wall is white

The back courtyard is safe and secure

No non-whites can’t get in or out

Unless they desperately needed to

The great backyard wall

May be easily scaled

With a sturdy white ladder

I’m trumped, here in Australia

Walls don’t even keep out the flies

I’ve been reading my history books

The white walls built in the past

They have never lasted

Over they climbed

Or under they crawled

The walls were eaten by dust mites

Resilient as a feather duster

And pulled down by liberators, in disdain and shame

Ivor Steve (c)  2019

Let The Past Be Gone (Revised)

“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to be like and enjoying it for everything that it is” — Mandy Hale


Let The Past Be Gone (Revised)


The end of December, and January is near

The bell tolls louder and how perennially I jeer

Those same old questions and no answers every year

Annually dismayed as old dawns disappear

Let the past be gone, now that today’s here

Let the future come, as I face tomorrows haunting fears

Last years sins have been but not totally gone

The new year’s about to begin, could be right or wrong

Next year’s eeriely hovering and I anxiously worry far too long

Knowingly waiting for my angels mourning song

“Let the past be gone.” declared todays final word

Let the future come, but tomorrow’s crying, I heard!



Ivor Steven (c) January 1st 2021

Free Verse Revolution returns

Congratulations and well done Kristiana, .. I’m looking forward to the new FVR magazine, … I’ll be reading/following, and submitting… best wishes for your new venture.. 💙🌏

Kristiana's avatarFree Verse Revolution:

Free Verse Revolution is back, after a rigorous relaunch, and I wish you a very happy new year! 2020 was transformative in many ways for many of us. I hope 2021 is a year of healing and growth for you all.

And so, in a ‘seamless’ segue way, let me reintroduce Free Verse Revolution to its loyal followers and contributors as well as the newer faces in this community.

Firstly, a little housekeeping is needed. The blog which ran for the past two years, sharing your incredible work, no longer exists publicly. This was to make space for Free Verse Revolution’s new identity as a literary magazine. All past posts have been made private – not deleted – if there is anything you need from the old site, please email me using FVR’s new email address: freeverserevolutionlit@gmail.com. Any emails sent to my blog email will be asked to redirect…

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Today Brings Tomorrow (Revised)

I am a seventy year-old writer

Another new day has arisen

A new year’s ahead

A new beginning is born

Life could turn for the worse

Below loose rocks and tired verse

Or life could improve to be better

Accruing love letters and joining the jet-setters

I have weeks to grow wiser and stronger

I have months to ponder about my book of wonder

This new year I have gained a publishing sponsor

For my words I have written in her honour 



Ivor Steven (c) December 2020