Month: April 2024

This is a poem from way before I started blogging in 2017, and I originally had it in a booklet of poems, called ‘Before, After, Now’ from 2010. So I thought I would repost the poem for the Weekly Prompts, Weekend Challenge, which is: One Day … please go over and visit their fabulous site by clicking on >> Here

One Day (Revised)

I am not asking you to dust my story’s book cover

Nor am I expecting you to be like our kind mother

You know in your heart there are no others

I’m alone during my nights, under cold covers

All I want from you is to look for no other

All I need from you is to love me like a sister and brother

She’s fading away, not complaining, and no bother

Her dying life has given me no time to hover

One day not so far away, her eyes beneath the clover

She’ll rest peacefully, and I’ll be crying over and over

All I want from you is to hold me while I recover

All I need from you is to love me like a sister and brother

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Ivor Steven (c) April 2024

“Day One” a poem I wrote in April 2022 for ‘Anzac Day’ … Lest We Forget …

Day One

Before Day One

I wished upon a star
That the milk-bar
Was not too far away
My life’s bread was crumbling
My weathered hands were fumbling
Witnessing the Last Supper was humbling

Day One

There, beyond the darkness
Out in the universe
From a million light-years away
Under an alien’s microscopic frame
We would all look the same

After Day One

I wished for the dust to settle
Then waited for rusted gunmetal
To mature into household kettles
Whistling hallelujah to new sunflower petals





This graphic Music/Video by the Pogues “needs no more words”

Ivor Steven (c) April (Anzac Day) 2024