Polar Bears and Cold Sheep (Revised)

Today I submitted this piece to the “Positive Words Magazine”(Australia) for one their October Odes Prompts, “Polar Bears”



Polar Bears and Cold Sheep





hello world, do you see my frown?

will the blizzards ever calm down?

will the rains forever fall on broken ground?

will our tears of silence be the only sound?


the frozen wounds are deep

the mountains of snow are steep

humans need to stop being cold sheep

and begin taking their own individual leaps


the rewards of being caring and kind

far outweigh the coldness of being left behind







Ivor Steven (c) October 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.

22 thoughts on “Polar Bears and Cold Sheep (Revised)”

  8. Sweet little fellow in the photo! You are SO right! Caring, and kindness could eradicate the coldness and replace it with warmth and comfort! Bestest wishes on submitting this important-powerful-reminder poem! Wish all Human-Beans could read it!
    (((HUGS))) ❤️🌎🐻‍❄️ 🌍🐻‍❄️🌏🐻‍❄️❤️

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