


This poem grew from poetic anecdotes I first shared as comments on fellow bloggers’ posts. In stanza order, they are:
Stanza 1. Derrick, >> Not Going Out Much – derrickjknight
Stanza 2. Nancy, >> Novembre – The Elephant’s Trunk
Stanza 3. David, >> This, too, shall pass, or: A rengay – The Skeptic’s Kaddish 🇮🇱
Stanza 4. Beth, >> darkness just begun. | I didn’t have my glasses on….
The Weather Report
The weather report comes and goes,
whether we feel like it or not.
Nature’s unchained window frames
shall always remain,
unclaimed and untamed.
I miss your November sunshine,
Just before Christmas time.
I miss your gorgeous November style –
all year round, your everlasting smile.
With the season’s colourful changes,
Nature’s crayons pepper the ranges.
Her tablecloth’s scattered mess
Becomes her ancient doll’s festive dress.
A spectacular sunset,
and they are all stellar,
in their own special way –
by single-handedly
signifying the end
of another successful day.
Ivor Steven (c) December 2025

The weather is looking good! Thanks for the inclusion, dear Ivor. 🥰
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I’m so pleased you liked my weather report … it was very special for to present a special edition of the daily broadcast my friend 😍🌏🎶📘📖
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I did, my friend. It was great fun to read! 🥰 🌎🎶👩🏼🏫🌏❤️
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They’re great fun to create my friend 📖📘🥰🌏🐶🎶
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This is fun, Ivor.
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Thank you, I really enjoy the process of creating these combined poems, Robbie
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That’s nice to know, Ivor. I am a Lone Ranger 💗
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A magical compilation, Ivor.! After reading it I feel euphoric! Happy New Year! 💕🍀⭐️🌎🌹🎉💕
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I’m very pleased you enjoyed my creative collection, thank you Cheryl. 📖📘🥰🌏🐶💙💚
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❤️
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It is amazing how that works out. Nicely done.
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And amazingly I surprise myself with how the separate anecdotes seem to form a coherent poem, Dwight
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Whether it’s cold, or whether it’s hot- we’re going to have weather- whether or not.
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How fun is this?
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Yeah … they’re so much fun to try and create a coherent poem, Lois 📖📘🥰
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I bet they are.
Should I change my name? You seem to have a thing about Lois and me 😉
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Oh, I’m sorry, probably too much festive cheer and too early in the morning for me to be answering so many (150) lovely responses to to my little poetry site … Dale 🥰🤗📖
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Hahaha! Fear not!
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thanks for including me and stitching it all together into a beautiful poem, Ivor
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My pleasure, and my anecdote pieces are so fun to ‘stitch’ together into a nearly coherent poem
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I like November too.
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Thank you, Sadie
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You’re welcome
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OH! Such beautiful, emotion-evoking, creative comments that you wove together to create this triumph, Ivor! That 3rd verse/stanza is brilliant! 🙂
(((HUGS))) for you and PATS for Frankie!!! 🙂 ❤️❤️ 🙂
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Oh, thank you so much for your wonderful comments, and “brilliant” Is high praise indeed, Carolyn 🐶💕🌏📘📖🎶🌞(((HUGS))) 💙📘
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Nicely woven
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Thank you very much, Derrick
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that was so brilliantly executed Ivor! Well done my friend 💖💖🙋♂️🙋♂️
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Thank you very much, Carol
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