Will There Be a Boat To Steer? (a Tanka)

My New Year Poem, and wishing my readers a safe and healthy 2023.

Featured Imagr Above: A photo of Graeme Altmann’s amazing painting, “Hopeful Return”, from a Geelong Writers Inc. Ekphrastic Writng Workshop at the Boom Gallery, Sept 2018.



Will There Be a Boat To Steer


The new year draws near

Heavy clouds are yet to clear

From our atmosphere

Will there be a boat to steer?

Toward life’s unmapped frontier








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Ivor Steven (c) January 2023

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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.

28 thoughts on “Will There Be a Boat To Steer? (a Tanka)”

    1. Thank you for reading/spotting my poem … I’ve mad a mess of scheduling my post Frank … but thanks to you I corrected my mistake … Phew !! … and I’m pleased you enjoyed my Tanka .. happy New Year … and it is now just after midnight here in Geelong .. Cheers my Friend …

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    1. Thank you Louise… and I had the idea in my head but I couldn’t get the wording right. … in the end I was ecstatic with my little Tanka πŸ“–βœοΈπŸ€—πŸ˜πŸŽΆ

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