I originally wrote today’s ‘Throwback Friday’ poem in June 2021 as a protest against the proposed drilling for oil in the “Great Australian Bight,” a protected ocean area known as the Great Australian Bight Commonwealth Marine Reserve.
And as is my way, I have revised and rewritten my poem “Tomorrow’s Sky”
Tomorrow’s Sky (Revised)
Floating upon my bed of rhyme
I continued to drift into Dreamtime
Reaching out through the window
I imagined what I could borrow
From the world’s future of sorrow
And beyond the blue horizon
On the edge of the Indian Ocean
I grabbed a piece of tomorrow’s sky
Strange, the feeling bamboozled my eye
Then magically I saw an azure hue of daylight
Within the shimmering mirage of nature’s plight
An unpolluted view of the “Great Australian Bight”


Until Eyes Hear Sound
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Tullawalla:
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Ivor Steven (c) December 2024

Beautiful, dear Ivor. Glorious verse! ☀️🌏💛🌊💙✨
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Thank you for your very generous words Nancy … I think my alterations sharpened up the meaning of what I trying to convey 😊🌏📘🥰
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thank you for this
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Thank you kindly, Beth
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Beautiful poem my friend
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Thank you for your kind words, Sadje 😍🌏📘
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It’s my pleasure
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😍🌏🎶
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💜💜💜💜
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Such a lovely poem Ivor. Merry Christmas.🎄🎈🎄
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this is so nice Ivor! A gorgeous poem! ❤
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Thank you very much, Carol… It seems to be getting better with each rewrite 😊🌏🎶😍
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Moving and wonderful. Thank you Ivor.
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Thank you for your very kind words, Cindy
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I find your poem to be heart-touching, important, and powerful.
(((HUGS))) 💙🩵 🌊🩵💙
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Yes… It’s very important that they don’t do the oil drill in one of nature’s pristine and wondrous Ocean’s 😊😍📘💕🌏… Thank you for appreciating my poem, Carolyn 😊🌏😍🎶
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Perhaps there is hope
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I shall keep hoping for common sense to prevail, Derrick
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Just awesome words
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Yes… an important message…. Thank you 😊🌏
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Destruction everywhere. It must be stopped.
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We keep biting away at the ‘apple’ , soon, only a hollow rotting core is all that will be left
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I think our new felon coming to the white house is the rotting core.
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I have to agree … he’s rotten to the core
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