This Lost Shadow, A “10” Year Celebration

Ten years ago my poem ‘This Lost Shadow‘ was accepted and published in the Literary Anthology, “Melpomene” . The poem was the first piece of mine to appear in a Published Book, and I was exceptionally proud to have my name in the authors list, along side the famous poets, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Paul Verlaine … Below, I have scanned my poem ‘This Lost Shadow’ directly from my copy of the book.

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Melpomene

Gwendolyn Taunton (Editor)

Melpomene is a collection of poetry, prose and short fiction named after the Greek Muse of Tragedy. The central theme of the anthology is the beauty found in sorrow and the darker sides of human nature, drawing on literary traditions such as the ‘Damned Poets’, the Decadent Movement, Symbolism/Surrealism and the Fin de si cle. Melpomene is broken into four sections: Liber Veneficium (Book of Magic), Liber Maeroris (Book of Sorrow), Liber Fatum (Book of Fate), and Liber Mortuorum (Book of Death). Each section contains both new and classic literature dealing with these themes. Authors in this volume include Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Taunton, Azsacra Zarathustra, Math Jones, Bernardo Sena, J. Karl Bogartte, C. B. Liddell, James WF Roberts, Christopher Pankhurst, H. A. Cledones, Tamas Nagyatadi Horvath, L. Alexander Carle, Bill Noble, Marg Howlet, Ivor Steven and Gene Banyard. Containing works both old and new, Melpomene offers a prime selection of works on the melancholic side of existence, the transformational beauty of the esoteric, occult secrets hidden in verse, sorrow, doom and the inevitable grasp of death. Melpomene will haunt the reader with a dark and unearthly beauty that is both forbidden and forlorn…







Ivor Steven (c) July 2022

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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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    1. Thank you Carolyn… and wrote the poem 11 years ago, (a before I submitted to anthology), after my 60th birthday, and Carole was still at home with me, but in my heart I knew she didn’t have long to go … I’ll be 71 next week 💜💕🤗🌏

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    1. Thank you Kim … I was ecstatic when I found out my submission was selected for the anthology .. I had no idea that my poem would be in such illustrious company … at the time I was only writing for my own pleasure, no website, no writing groups, and only a handful of friends had seen some of my writings … it certainly was a excellent endorsement of my poem and certainly encouraged me to keep writing poems 💕📖🌏

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  5. Ivor,
    This poem is so relatable in this present time. Poetry has a timelessness to it. I am glad that you continued to write.
    Hope all is well with you today.
    From your “Stay Weird” sister city.

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    1. Hi , fellow weird city .. thank you Ali … an important poem in more ways than one … that little piece of good fortune gave me the confidence to join a local writing group, who in turn encouraged me to expand my horizons .. for which I am forever thankful … from my humble beginnings of learning how to read and write again to becoming a “poet” .. . my humble inner smile is now as wide as this mornings rainbow .. 🌈🌏🤗

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    1. Thank you Cheryl, and with being published in that outstanding anthology I thought “that was pinnacle” .. but little did I know .. it became the impetus for my writings to blossom around world 🌏🤗💕📖

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