Gulls Over Dover

Featured Image Above: A bleak sky, fleeing wings, and a world on edge—echoed in the voice of “Iron Sky.”


A thank you to Derrick for inspiring the theme of this poem, even though I didn’t use his photo this time. His article nudged me to write.
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Gulls Over Dover

The sky turns a hessian dull
as our silly world spins towards
another war zone cull.

The frightened gulls
of Dover flee north to Hull,
too wary of looking backwards,
haunted by humanity’s disparities







Ivor Steven ©  March 2026

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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.

27 thoughts on “Gulls Over Dover”

    1. Yes it’s a mad mad world, and Derrick’s article about panic buying and queuing up for petrol, made me ponder about the birds think of “our” inhumane ways … 🦅🌏😲

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  6. A powerful prompting and inspiration from Derrick! 🙂

    This is an important, powerful, heart-touching posting, Ivor…especially your poem.
    We must always remember that war affects all of nature in negative ways. 😦
    (((HUGS))) 🤍🕊🤍🕊🤍

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