A Golden Bowtie

Feature Image : Created by Copilot and me — a wattlebird rising above a soft, cloud‑washed bridge in the sky. I sent my two photos (attached below) to my Copilot app and asked for an image of a wattlebird flying above a bridge in the sky. This is the result: a golden, dreamlike lift.


Today’s poem grew from a poetic anecdote I left on Nancy’s post last week — Suspended: A Sonnet – The Elephant’s Trunk
a moment of sky‑thinking that stayed with me.




A Golden Bowtie

Oh, to safely fly above
that peaceful bridge in the sky.
Like a worldwide dream —
a bowtie’s golden ribbon,
bandaging the stratosphere
together,
from here to Shanghai.






A quiet, drifting companion for the poem’s soft ascent.



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.

15 thoughts on “A Golden Bowtie”

  1. Beautiful, Ivor. There is such a gentle sense of hope and freedom in this piece. I especially love the image of the golden ribbon stretching across the sky, connecting distant places as though there are no borders between us. The wattlebird and bridge complement that feeling wonderfully a peaceful dream of connection, unity, and possibility. A short poem with a wonderfully expansive spirit. 🌏✨🐦🌉

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    1. Thank you for your lovely perception of my dreamy/wishful/worldly poem, and yes, nature provides me with a myriad of analogies and metaphors to draw from to help me to write my stories about “our” existence within the universe, Mihran … 🌏📘💙🦅😊

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  2. Oh, so beautiful…the image you and Copilot created, your poem, and that song/video!
    Experiencing these three together bring feelings of joy, hope, connection, soaring high, not giving up, moving forward! Thank you, Ivor! (((HUGS))) ❤️❤️❤️

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