Through the Widening Crack

“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” … Leonard Cohen


“The sky cracked open for a heartbeat, and the light played its own soft melody.”



Through the Widening Crack



Twilight’s canopy of clouds
eclipses the evening sky
with an embracing violet shroud.

However, the squinting sunlight
was silently trying to wave goodbye
through the widening crack
above the sun’s transient eye.

And there on nature’s colourful curtain,
I saw columns of light
ascend the nebulous mountain;
then I wondered
whether I was witnessing the world’s
grand celestial pipe organ
playing a lullaby to the purple night









Ivor Steven ©  April 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.

30 thoughts on “Through the Widening Crack”

    1. Thank you very much for visiting and reading my words, Claudia … sorry I’ve not been over so much lately, my little blog site has turned into an overwhelmingly huge blog site for this slow old poet 📖🌏🥰

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  9. AW! SIGH! 🙂 Perfection! Beautiful! Your GORGEOUS photos, your FABULOUS poem, your WONDERFUL song/vid choice! 🙂 Through your poem I can actually hear the light’s melody! 🙂
    OH! That quote is a fave of mine…Mr. Cohen’s words and music have got me through many a tough time. 🙂
    So have your poems and blogposts, Ivor! 🙂
    (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️

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