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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Ours Is monthly open mic night … well attended, 40 – 70 , with a mixture of age groups, but mainly under 30’s with the females in majority … and I’m the oldest …
lol Lismore was also monthly, the first I went to was their only ‘female’ nominated night … only the 2 middle aged guys running it attended. Sad the guys weren’t interested in hearing the women … after that it was males only with a few token ‘pretty’ girls. Guess that will change as the old boys club dies out!
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
that siren can be merciless
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I imagine so
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Let’s hope it’s not from the lighthouse 🙂
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An interesting thought Sue … Thank you 🌏🤗😍
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Ooh! This gets the readers minds and imaginations flowing!
Have fun at the open mic event!
(((HUGS))) ❤️🙏🥳
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Thanks Carolyn … a piece of fantasy in response to prompt “Golden Hour” 🤗🌏😍🐶
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Yea, have fun at the open mic event! 🙂
‘My jolly sailor bold’
How beautiful! Thanks for sharing, Ivor.
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Thank you Uta … I enjoy the open mic nights 🤗🌏📖
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loving the mystery, enjoy your mic night! Haunting song
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Thank you Kate … I look forward to our open mic nights 🤗😉📖
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yes I know you do, reciting to an audience is not my thing but when I did attend there was often non-poet’s keen to read my contribution 🙂
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The friendliness at open mic events is what keeps me going … everyone is so supportive and I always come away smiling 🤗🌏
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sounds way better than the Lismore ones, they were most exclusive only the ‘pretty’ girls got a go …. essentially a boys club 😦
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Ours Is monthly open mic night … well attended, 40 – 70 , with a mixture of age groups, but mainly under 30’s with the females in majority … and I’m the oldest …
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lol Lismore was also monthly, the first I went to was their only ‘female’ nominated night … only the 2 middle aged guys running it attended. Sad the guys weren’t interested in hearing the women … after that it was males only with a few token ‘pretty’ girls. Guess that will change as the old boys club dies out!
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Very odd indeed Kate … Ours is run by 1 guy and 2 gals, the original founders, in there early 30’s … Lowercase poetry open mic’s have going 10 years …
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