Eye to Eye, or I to I

Down a quiet back lane near the café, this striking street art stopped me in my tracks — it felt like a quiet conversation waiting to happen, eye to eye with the unexpected.





Eye to Eye, or I to I


With one eye querying mankind
and the other eye wondering
about my state of mind —
bewildered and always pondering
what’s real beyond my Venetian blinds.

I am neither refined nor confined,
and I have escaped being quarantined.

I question myself.
Are my eyes behind the times,
or have I misread my bookshelf’s
poetry finds and the fairytale rhymes?





A final glance, and the moment drifted on — leaving its quiet echo behind, carried forward now in the music’s slow drift




Ivor Steven ©  August 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.

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  3. Ivor, it’s becoming a more confusing world. I think some of the factors are disturbing political and economic trends, wars and violence, a loss of empathy and civility in public discourse, rapidly evolving technologies, and ever-more-deceptive and realistic messages powered by AI. ☮️ 🕊️ 🌈

    Thank you for this very relatable post! 💕

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  5. Thank you, Ivor, for this very relatable and timely poem. It is becoming an increasingly more confusing world.

    I think some of the factors are: senseless wars and violence, degradation of the environment, the disappearance of empathy in government, erosion of dignity and civility in public discourse, suppression of freedom of the press, ever-more-realistic and misleading AI messages, rapidly-evolving technologies, and disturbing political and economic trends in the US and in some other countries.

    ☮️💚🌈❤️🌻

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