once upon a time a poet without rhyme looked up from the waiting line — the sky whispered its warning: you were never meant to wear a label, nor born to be one‑of‑a‑kind
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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22 thoughts on “Stamped and Dispatched”
Thank you so much Ivor. I’m so grateful to be inluded in one of your wonderful posts.
We are all, socialized to behave, based off of our race, gender, and other, social values, and, we spend our entire lives, proving to ourselves and others around us, that we are NOT, these, social identities which were, “assigned” to us, and, there’s, NO way, we can, break free on these, attributes that made us into, who we, are, because by the time we realize this, we’re already, TRAPPED too, deep.
Excellent. Important. I can relate to this, too. 🙂
Makes me think of my 3 fave quotes:
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss 🙂
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”- Dr. Seuss 🙂
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Thank you so much Ivor. I’m so grateful to be inluded in one of your wonderful posts.
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Your interesting article compelled my thoughts, Gigi
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Not meant to wear a label NOR be one of a kind? That is a sad state of affairs, for sure.
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It seems the way of our modern digital world these days, Dale
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I hear ya, Ivor…
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Wonderful take on this
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Thank you, Beth,
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Beautiful. Though we do need some identity at birth, the ability to think for ourselves is something we all should be encouraged to do.
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Thank you for appreciating my poetic reply to Gigi’s article, Sadje
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so good Ivor! 😀
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Thank you very much, Carol📖🥰
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We are all, socialized to behave, based off of our race, gender, and other, social values, and, we spend our entire lives, proving to ourselves and others around us, that we are NOT, these, social identities which were, “assigned” to us, and, there’s, NO way, we can, break free on these, attributes that made us into, who we, are, because by the time we realize this, we’re already, TRAPPED too, deep.
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Yes, sadly it’s all to true , but I’ll keep trying to believe in myself as an individual
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Eye opening
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Thank you, Derrick
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Take it from one that has never and still doesn’t fit in- neither does anyone else! Lovely post, Ivor.
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Thank you so much, Violet … Gigi’s words got me thinking 🤔
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I can relate to this 💞
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Yes, I think we all can, Robbie 💙📘🌏
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Excellent. Important. I can relate to this, too. 🙂
Makes me think of my 3 fave quotes:
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.” – Dr. Seuss 🙂
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”- Dr. Seuss 🙂
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde 🙂
(((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️
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I love the Oscar Wilde one … thank you you very much for your lovely words, Carolyn (((HUGS))) 🥰📖📘💙🐶
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You’re welcome very much. 🙂
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