Echoes of Goodbye

A gentle twilight settled over yesterday’s sky, its fading colours echoing the soft hush of evening. This poem grew from that quiet moment — a lingering farewell woven through the last light of day.






Echoes Of Goodbye



Daylight is on the soft edge of night.
Today’s sentinel sun
has wistfully said goodbye
to the world’s indigenous blue sky.

Twilight time
melodramatically commandeers
earth’s chromatic horizon.

I stand here, amazed and wondering
how do I explain these encircling,
empyreal surroundings
to the echoes of our final goodbye.




A final whisper of twilight, carried forward in song.




Ivor Steven ©  September 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.

28 thoughts on “Echoes of Goodbye”

  4. Aw. So sweet and heart-touching, Ivor. Empyreal…what a perfect word…so vivid, so fitting…for your photos and poem. And that song brings the tears. Nature’s evenings of golds and yellows wrap us in a gift of caring, comforting, and hope. (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️

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    1. Thank you for all of your wonderful responses to all of poetry words my dear friend … nature keeps me smiling and inspiring me to continue writing about life’s contradictory world, and my happy companion, Frankie helps my writings stay positive 🥰📖🐶🎶🌏

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  8. Today’s sentinel sun has wistfully said goodbye to the world’s indigenous blue sky. 🙂
    I love this, but it’s not a final goodbye; the sun and blue sky will be here again tomorrow… unless it’s raining! 😅

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