Hello dear readers and followers, I am again writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “Destiny and Shame Await”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/destiny-and-shame-await/
Daniel Norgren’s video/song below inspired me to write these reflective words …
The Last Encore
I am standing on the diminishing foreshore
Staring at that missing ground floor
“Like there was a door”
Between here and the last encore … Ivor
Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

A very timely reminder Ivor.
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Thanks Sadje, but we are running out of time 😊🌏
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Yes we are. 💜
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you are so very good with words, you clearly have a gift. isn’t it interesting that we sometimes discover out gifts after having lived a bit of our lives without really recognizing it?
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Thank you Beth … it’s a gift I developed after my first stroke 23 years ago … with my speech and reading rehab my therapist encouraged me to write some rhymes and for some strange reason I seem to like be good at them and my knack with words blossomed from there 📚📕😊🌏😉
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Lovely, Ivor. 🙂
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Thank you very much Sue 😊🌏😍
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Great poem.
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Thank you very much Andrew
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You’re welcome, Ivor.
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Clicked through and read your poem. 👍🏻 Our planet is blameless and boundless in beauty. Congrats and best wishes with your ongoing writing contributions! ☕
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Thank you for visiting my poem at CHW Michele, I appreciate your support. 🌝🌏📘
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Interesting!
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Thank you …
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What a powerful poem, Ivor! (I visited CHW magazine to read it)!
And your addition of the photo, your reflective words, and THAT song made for such an amazing quartet…I got teary-eyed.
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you for visiting my poem at CHW Carolyn, I really appreciate your support … Daniel Norgren’s video/song is sensational and suited my poem superbly … the “Cosmic Sundial” sits in my sister’s backyard … 🌝🌏🌞💛💜❤🐶
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I bookmarked that song on YouTube so I can listen to it again and again. 🙂
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Yes, heart warming song 🎶
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Internet problems are preventing me from accessing your poem Ivor. Anyway, congratulations. I may get to it later
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I’ll email you the poem Derrick
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Because, we humans think, we can, continue to, take whatever we want, whenever we want from, Mother Nature, and, she will, soon have had enough and, unleash her wrath on our entire, species, and, because we can’t see what we’re, doing to nature, how we’d, raped her, taken all we can, and want from here, and, when she’s, finally, had enough of our ways, then, the entire global planet’s population will be at, her, mercy, and, we still have, nobody to blame for it but, ourselves.
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We continue to be deaf dumb and blind 😊🌏
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You deserve and encore 👏👏👏
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Thank you kindly Cindy 😊🌏🎶
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Awesome!
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Thank you very much 😊🌏
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You’re very welcome Ivor! #LoveYourWorks
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Absolutely lonely
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Thank you very much 😊🌏
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Your words were beautiful Ivor! ❤ A gorgeous and very relatable poem!
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Thank you for your lovely appraisal of my poem Carol … 😍📘
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