Standing On Unstable Ground 

Featured Photo: by Derrick Knight, and a sincere thank you to Derrick for permitting me to use his fabulous image here in collaboration with my poem. This is now our “40th” collaborative article, and our joint book “Perceptions” is now in the hands of my editor/publisher (Judy, from Jaymah Press), and hopefully, the book will be in print before Christmas


Standing On Unstable Ground
 

 

Do not make me laugh 

The pain would cut me in half 

Instead

Pass me yesterday’s leftover chaff

Alas 

I cannot leave you an autograph 


I am a wounded grey donkey 

Standing on unstable ground 

Feeling disabled and lonely 

And my inner damage is yet to be found  






Ivor Steven © August 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. Thanks Ingrid.. the photo/poem concept looks fabulous.. I’ll email you the PDF manuscript and maybe you might do a review for me .. Kerri is yet to finish the cover artwork design … 🤗🌏💕

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  10. I love donkeys! and Derrick always takes such beautiful photos of them! 🙂
    Aw, on your poem…and on your pain. 😦
    I hope the inner and outer pains are healed soon. In the meantime, keep being a patient patient. Continuing to send healing thoughts and wishes and prayers.
    (((HUGS))) ❤️
    PS…”It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.” ~ Eeyore 🙂

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    1. Thank you dear Carolyn … our collaborative book is my piece of sunshine at the moment .. I’m ecstatic with how it’s shaping up … and something to keep my mind active… computer work has come to a standstill … I’m afraid I was too sore to go out to the Geelong Writers dinner event last night, and that “hurt” … hopefully September will be a betterer month for me … 🤗🌏😉🐶

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      1. I’m so happy the book is being sunshine for you! 🙂
        Be patient with yourself and your body. It will all get betterer in time. I was so shocked how long it took for my knee to heal and get to a place I could sit without elevating it and not feel the pain.
        Yes, here’s hoping September is betterer!
        I just posted my birthday post! I hope you can do something you enjoy doing to help me celebrate. 😀

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      2. Happy birthday Carolyn .. I’ll go over and have a look .. I’m still doing very minimal blogging … but as you know, it’s matter of necessity to help my recovery 🤗🌏💕🐶

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