Throwback Friday, Freckles And Dark Hair


Today’s Throwback Friday poem is from June 2018.


Freckles and Dark Hair


I am a hybrid of mixed origin
An off-spring of my parents
Dad was a red-head with freckles
From Tasmania, a convict great-grandson
Mum had dark hair and olive skin
A German and Scottish background
She was born in Penang Malaysia
They were worlds apart
The great war shaped their paths
Time and peace brought them together
I’m their hybrid, with freckles and dark hair






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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

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Ivor Steven (c) February 2025

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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.

43 thoughts on “Throwback Friday, Freckles And Dark Hair”

  13. We are all, the, combinations of our parents’ DNA which we can’t, escape from, but, we can, change our own, attitudes on, how we play the hands, dealt to, us, and that is, ALL we can, do. We do NOT have, control of our lives, we can, control, how we, interpret what we are, in the, midst of, and that, is the, determinant of, how we will, turn, out in our, lives.

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  17. A beautiful combo…and an interesting and good heritage. 🙂
    I know both of your parents are still proud of you today! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
    PS…please give Frankie some extra lovin’ this week for me. Thank you!

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