Throwback Friday, Birds on Wires (July 2010), by Ivor Steven

At “Go Do Go Cafe” earlier today …
>> https://godoggocafe.com/2023/02/10/throwback-friday-birds-on-wires-july-2010-by-ivor-steven/

Last month I posted a poem on my website which was also Titled “Birds on Wirds”, however my Throwback poem from July 2010 is completely different, and in keeping with my poetic theme about birds lately I thought It would be appropriate to repost my first “Birds on Wires” poem here today …



Birds on Wires (July 2010)



Here on the edge of lower earth

Beyond the urban concrete girth

Withering trees are trying to grow

Reaching for that mystical power flow

Hungering for energy from contaminated ground

Not the airwaves of false sonic sound

Man-made arrows cluttering  the sky

Unnatural webs soaring high

Bird dodging spires

Hanging on cold steel wires

Carriers of these modern times

The pulse of humanities crimes




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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.

14 thoughts on “Throwback Friday, Birds on Wires (July 2010), by Ivor Steven”

    1. Thank you Carolyn… a piece of honest humour… the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence … my next “Bird” poem… I think I’ll submit it to Coffee House Writers Magazine for my upcoming article … 🤗🌏😍

      “Birds on Fences”

      What side of the fence
      do you sit on?
      Birds perched on fences
      look down on the earth

      Birds on fences know
      The grass is not always greener
      on the other side
      Is there ever
      a winning side
      or a losing side

      Birds on fences know
      Worms burrow holes
      on both sides
      Shadows grow longer
      under the one sun
      Dawn rises on the dark side
      and the sun sets on the bright side

      Birds on fences know
      “A blade of grass is the journeywork of the stars”

      … Walt Whitman, ‘Leaves of grass’ 1855

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