Throwback Friday, Silence and Shyness

Today’s Throwback Friday poem was “my debut poem for Coffee House Writers Magazine,” published on July 13th, 2021. So, I have now been a writer with the Magazine for 4 years, which means I have had over 100 poems published in the Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>>  Ivor Steven, Author at Coffee House Writers 
The poem also appears in my third book, Until Eyes Hear Sound, Chapter 1, Little Creatures and Birds.




Silence and Shyness

I hear the digital clock’s shyness
My unruffled day feels timeless
Alone and listening to the silence
Of the muzzled arctic breeze
A quiet zephyr’s foreboding freeze

I hear the garden snail’s widow
Sliding up the kitchen window
Her silvery trail grates and slithers
Along the cold pane’s dirty rivers

I hear an earthworm digging
His defiant endeavors are deafening
Blindly shoveling the muddy ground
A dark burrow where he cannot be found







Ivor Steven (c) July 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.

28 thoughts on “Throwback Friday, Silence and Shyness”

    1. Oh … I didn’t think of it being a ‘rap’ … I’ll give it a try, although I’m no ‘rapper’ … I think you might be right !!! … haha… a rap song about a widowed snail and a blind worm 🪱🐌

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  8. What a beautiful ponderable poem, Ivor! Filled with brilliant rhymes, vivid images igniting our senses, and reminding us that even the smallest creatures, in our massive universe, are so important. 🙂

    OH! and congrats on 4 years and 100 poems! Wow! 🥳
    (((HUGS))) ❤️🐌❤️🪱❤️ (snail and worm 🙂 )

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