A Line in the Sand (Revised)

Here I have revised yesterday’s poem ‘A Line in the Sand’ … by adding a stanza at the start, and a change to the final line … I’m not sure, but maybe the alterations are Ok…

A Line in the Sand (Revised)


Did you hear the latest hocus pocus?

About the world’s leaders lack of focus

And resembling old smokeless dragons

Can you sense the reloading of guns and cannons?


In my mind, I am searching for the olive tree

Please come walk with me

We will go to the seashore

And watch the dove’s soar


Hold my other hand

As I scribe a line in the sand


A message to the sky

Love and peace I decry

Will I receive an honest reply?

Or nothing, but more blind eyes?




Ivor Steven (c) April 2021

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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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      2. I’ve just spent the whole day deleting all of my published blog poems that appear in my book ..
        and because a number of my poems appear multiple times through my blog, I had to delete about 200 poems !! … one at time ….
        Wow … job done … Phew.. 😀😎

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  9. Oh, I am sorry to hear about your dilemma, Ivor! Yes, it is a requirement by Amazon that the poems in your book can’t be published elsewhere. Reason why is Amazon pays royalties and they don’t want to compete against “free”, which means followers can read it for free on your blog. I’ve been getting royalties for 3 years on the 2 poetry books I published and yes, I have to file a 1099 tax form.

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    1. Thank you Eugenia.. I think I have nearly sorted it out … I’ve supplied Amazon a catalogue, with all the dates of my selected poems of when they were first published on my blog/website .. and today I’ve deleted the poems from my ‘site’ that in my “Book” .. haha 129 of them .. one at time…
      😀😊🌏

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