Featured Image Above: Black-and-white photo of a street art mural depicting a tug-of-war between a Russian and Ukrainian soldier on a war memorial in Izyum, Ukraine. (Getty Images photo)

Hello, dear readers and followers. I write for Coffee House Writers magazine (USA) fortnightly, and my poem “Restore Rapport” is in this week’s edition.
Written in the quiet hours of early morning, Restore Rapport is a poetic protest against the machinery of war and the silence that surrounds it. Inspired by the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, this piece asks: Where is the understanding? What are innocent lives being sacrificed for?


“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” — Einstein
To read the poem, please click the link below to visit my Coffee House Writers Magazine article.
>> https://coffeehousewriters.com/restore-rapport/

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for the Book, plus Postage.
Ivor Steven © November 2025

Excellent poem, dear Ivor. You did good, my friend! 🥰 ✌🏼 🕊️
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Thank you very much, Nancy … this daylight saving is a pain, I have to wait until midnight for CHW to post their magazine (8.00 am your time) now it’s 1.00am here and it’s way past my bedtime 📖💙😍😴
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UGH! I hope you can get some rest, my friend. 🥰😴🛌🌏
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Ivor, put it on the schedule, then you can please yourself.
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Oh, I don’t get the referring link until then, Sue
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Ah, I see. 🙂
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very well done, no more war
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Nicely alliterative title
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Yes, and it fit the rhyming scheme of my words, Derrick
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Congratulations, Ivor. I do like this poem of war. 🙂
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Thank you, it’s a bit of a frantic chant, but my editor like sharpness of my words, Sue 📖📘😍
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A powerful posting, Ivor! Such important messages in your photos, poem (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐), quote, and song choice! (((HUGS))) 🕊️ 🤍 ☮️
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Sadness 🥲💔
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Yes, war is sad …
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😭
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