Time Unlocks Closed Doors

“When doors close, and wars roar, let peace be the key we choose to turn.”

This piece gathers four small reflections I shared on my fellow writers’ posts.
In stanza order, they are:
Nancy: Extraordinary Lies – The Elephant’s Trunk 
Sara: Levels of Water | purplepeninportland
Nancy: Gilded Quiet – The Elephant’s Trunk 
David: While my key still turns, or: Old lock – The Skeptic’s Kaddish  

  



Time Unlocks Closed Doors

Behind every resurfacing lie 
there is a buried piece of truth 

Life’s ebb tides
and rising waters
have no lateral sides

The ways of the rich 
make life a bitch. 
We’re better off 
not being so aloft  

If the key is not in the lock 
You’ll find it under the welcome mat 


 

 
A song for those moments when closed doors feel heavy — Renee’s voice reminds us that time still finds a way through.




Ivor Steven ©  July 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.

26 thoughts on “Time Unlocks Closed Doors”

    1. Thank you for thoughtful summary, David … and I think your comments are spot on … and that is the surprising/amazing joy I get when my 📘📖🤗🌏unrelated anecdotes come together to form a meaningful poem …

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  5. Sometimes, life outside, impacts us, and, there’s no way, to keep our, sanity, but, we all, are working hard, to, stay, calm, as the world, becomes, more, turbulent, every single, day. We do what we can, to, keep our, minds, intact.

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  7. A beautiful weaving of reflections into a wise, powerful poem…that ends with the reminder that hope is important because hope often leads to peaceful solutions. 🙂
    “Tide and time wait for no man.” – Geoffrey Chaucer So we should not delay doing, or saying, what is important. 🙂 (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️

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