Throwback Friday, Bird on a Ladder

In keeping with this week’s ‘Bird’ theme, today’s Throwback Friday poem (originally written in May 2023) is drawn from my third book, Until Eyes Hear Sound. It appears as a poem in Chapter 1: Little Creatures and the Birds

Bird on a Ladder


  
I am a blackbird on a circus ladder 
Singing about how the world is feeling sadder 
Or should I sing, “becoming madder” 

Here on the last rung, I stand 
Below, I see a treeless land 
Above, I hear a breathless sky 
After the show, I untangle my necktie 
And I ask you why 
“Does it matter, when I leap, what route do I fly?”  





“Let the music spin the world’s madness into something we can still sing about

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Until Eyes Hear Sound

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Perceptions:

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Tullawalla:

Amazon >> Tullawalla A Meeting Place Where My Empty Hands are Full of Memories and Rhymes : Steven, Ivor: Amazon.com.au: Books

OR: >> You may email me directly for a signed copy at
ivorrs20@gmail.com … and I can send you a PayPal account,
for the Book, plus Postage.

Ivor Steven ©  May 2026