“Tock-tick, or “47 is 74”

Apologies to my followers and readers for not blogging much this weekend. Sorry, it has been a hectic weekend for me and I have run out of “Time” … Market Day, Saturday, and my Dome Poetry meeting on Sunday … I’ll have no breath left to blow out the candles!!

Over at Weekly Prompts, the Weekend Challenge is Back-to-Front. To visit their fabulous site, please click HERE


“Tock-tick”, or “47 is 74”

I am seventy-four today
And as I am growing older
I am hearing time ticking
Back-to-front
Sounding more like “tock-tick”
Instead of a steady “tick-tock”

Once upon a time
For every moment
There was a second
Now, in one moment
There are two seconds!
And the old hands
On my rusty sundial
Cannot find time’s
Elusive shadow

Alas, I have searched
Inside out and upside down
For the key to time’s
New age design
“A backless clock
Without any front”





Ivor Steven (c) July 20th, 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.

48 thoughts on ““Tock-tick, or “47 is 74””

    1. Thank you very much for kindness, Dale… it’s funny how when you are older time seems to tick tock away faster even though we’re moving slower than a snail 🐌😊🌏😍🎶🐶

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  3. Happy Birthday Ivor! And the pingback worked! Strangely, my own pingback didn’t work this morning and I could see no reason why not. When I eventually noticed, I deleted the link on my site and successfully created another.

    Don’t apologise for not blogging, Ivor, we can only do so much. I’ve had so little time this last couple of weeks due to doing some online work for one of the family, I’ve hardly had the time to visit anyone on WP. I love your poem, it made me smile 👏🙂

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    1. Oh , I’m so happy my pingback worked… and thank you for your kind birthday wishes, Sue … I’m glad my humourous poem flowed along ok, I was very tired when I wrote it 📖😊🌏😍

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  9. Hap Hap Happy Birthday, Ivor! YAY! 🥳
    Ha! A very relatable poem! It brings the joy! 😀
    Seems on birthdays we do some reflecting and pondering. But keep tocking’n’ticking and ticking’n’tocking and enjoying life! I hope you celebrate for at least a week! 🙂
    47 is an important birthday! 😉 😛 😉
    Birthday (((HUGS))) 🥳🎂🎈❤️🎉🎁🥳

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    1. Thank you for your kind birthday wishes, Carolyn … I’m just back from my Dome poetry meeting, having some lunch and I’ll take Frankie for a birthday walkie 🐶😊🌏😍🎶💕

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