Tullawalla:

Illustration by Kerri Costello
Chapter 4
Humour, Wit, Sarcasm, And Christmas Stories
If Only Walls Could Talk
It’s true you know
Walls can talk
So I’ve been told
By a beautiful Rose
You’ll have to listen
Listen very closely
Put your ear against the wall
Use a stethoscope if you must
Listen to the wooden heart
Standing proud and tall
A rough soul rendered smooth
Layers of paint, every hue
Covering up dusty memories
Of hearts lost through years of cavities
Like the old Wailing Wall
You’re walking along a history hall
Your secrets, one and all
They’ve heard every gasp
Your children’s moans
And your lover’s groans
Ivor Steven (c) August 2022

Beautifully descriptive, Ivor. I love Nancy Griffith’s music!
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Thank you Dwight … Nancy sings that song superbly 🎶 .. and I love this poem too, the same as every other poem in my Tullawalla book 🌏💕🤗
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Beautiful 💜
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Thank you Willow .. and hopefully I’ll be back blogging again soon 🌏🤗❤️🩹
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🤞🤞🤞🤞
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What a great poem, and kerri’s drawing is lovely
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Thank God they don’t tell their secrets to everyone. 🤪
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Haha .. yes indeed Sadje 🤗🌏💕📖
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😂
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Beautiful and hopefully you’re slowly but surely making your way back to good health
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Thank you Beth .. ouchie, it’s never been this slow before, but I suppose I’ve never been this old before ??
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Oh those walls! I hope they are discreet! 🙂 and I hope you are feeling much better.
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My walls are discreet, my back is slightly betterer
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Here’s to slightly betterer today!
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Powerful beautiful quartet…photos, Kerri’s artwork, Ivor’s poem, and Nanci’s song! 🙂
If walls could talk we (Human-Beans) would learn a lot about ourselves! 😉 😀
(((HUGS))) 🙂 ❤️
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The walls have heard it all before.. maybe on day we will start listening too Carolyn 🌏🤗💕🐶
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Yes, indeed! 🙂
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I’m at my computer for a 30min sitting, to do my post for tonight … and then that’s me done … probably back to bed … after an ice-cream .. 🤗🌏🐶📘💕
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Good. Do what’s best for you. Rest. Ice Cream. Rest. Rest. Ice Cream. HA! 🙂
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Yep .. I’ve plenty of ice cream in the fridge 🌏🤗💕🍦
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Woot woo! 😛 😋
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The stories that these, old house have, to tattle about their, owners, and, everybody else who’d, ever been, in and out of them, are sometimes, quite, interesting.
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Yes … very intriguing stories are within the knowing walls of silence …
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A splendid poem and marvellous drawings
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Thank you young Derrick ..
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This is lovely, Ivor.
Beautiful song to go with.
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Thank you Dale .. I think Tullawalla is full of lovely poems 🤗🌏💕📖
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Good that you think so! 🙂
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Thank you for reblogging and supporting the poems out of my new upcoming book “Tullawalla” .. 🤗🌏📘
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