The Old and the New

“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance” … John Keats

Today I went into the City for an appointment with my ‘Specialist’ … everything went well and my visit finished early … I had 20 minutes to spare until the next bus was due … Yeah! … enough time to sneak into the nearby “Second-hand Bookshop”


I purchased 2 Books, The Complete Poems of “John Keats”, oh, what an amazing find, a truly gifted young poet who died at the age of 26, and a new book, “Night Train”, by a local well-known poet, Anthony Lynch.


The Old.
John Keats: Sonnet on Peace (page 262)y


The New.
Anthony Lynch: Rats (page 6)








Ivor Steven (c) July 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.

17 thoughts on “The Old and the New”

  8. OOH! New books! Poetry books! YAY!!! 🙂 How wonderful! 🙂
    So glad your specialist appointment went well! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️🐶❤️🌞❤️
    PS…poems can truly be written about anything! 😉 🐁🐭🐀 😉

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