An Old Plumber, An Ex-Carer, An Amateur Poet, Words From The Heart
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. >> Confusion About The Month – derrickjknight
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
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.
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18 thoughts on “Gulls Over Dover”
Oh, to be a bird, to soar high and flee the madness of the world below! Wonderful poem, dear Ivor. 🥰🐦⬛🌐
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 … 🦅🌏😲
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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Oh, to be a bird, to soar high and flee the madness of the world below! Wonderful poem, dear Ivor. 🥰🐦⬛🌐
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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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Thank you 🎶🥰
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A pleasure. 🥰🕊️🎶
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Thank you, Ivor, for this timely post. The poem, photos, and music video are perfect together. 🌹
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And a big thank you to Derrick for inspiring my creative post my friend 🥰🌏😊🎶📖
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Very powerful and sad
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War is a very sad and inhumane, Robbie
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Love these beautiful shots
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Thank you very much, Sadje, and yes, the photos turned out surprisingly well 😊🦅
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🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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How I wish all the affected peoples could just fly away from the destruction. Beautiful verse, Ivor.
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War is so inhumane
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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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Thank you very much for your thoughtful words, Carolyn … war is so devastating and destructive … 🌏💙🥰
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Well said.
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Very good timing on this one
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