A rainbow above, a wattlebird lifting below — and somewhere between them, a little daydream opened. This poem follows that gentle climb into thin air, where time loosens, and words drift without lines.




Is Time A Daydream?
Wattlebirds and rainbows
do not rhyme,
but both are sublime,
and glow in the sunshine
there above my eyeline.
Perhaps a mirage of mine
inside my mind
during my daydream time.
Where life is not a crime,
and the tall alpines
are painless to climb.
Up there,
beyond thin air,
I breathtakingly find —
only words with no lines.
For those still wandering between half-waking and half-dreaming… as daydream time drifts beyond thin air, let this beautiful song carry the journey a little further.
Ivor Steven © October 2026

My dear friend, I’m just awake enough to read and marvel at your glorious poetry. This one is a real beauty! 🥰
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Spam, spam, thank you, ma’am … Hopefully, this is the last one … and thank you so much for your excellent appraisal of my somewhat fanciful philosophical poem my dear friend 📚😎🥰🌏🕰😉📘💕🌈
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😂 You’re most welcome, my dear friend.
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I’m catching these ones in spam, but things will get betterer soon
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A delightful poem Ivor
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Time, is always a fascinating subject, Sadje
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It is. I find that we can’t understand it completely.
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Awesome poem
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Thank you very much 🌝🌏
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You’re welcome 🙂
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Important question! A brilliant wise ponderful poem, Ivor! One of your bestest! It’s prime! It’s sublime! It’s divine! 🙂 Gorgeous photos and great song/music, too! 🙂 (((HUGS))) ❤️☁️🕊🌈 ❤️
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Oh, I love this Loner Deer song and the lyrics are so appropriate for my poem … and thank you so much for all of your lovely comments, Carolyn 😉🌞🥰🌈🐶 … we slept in this morning, and I’m still daydream … 😎🌏😍
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You’re welcome! 🙂
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Time is hard to describe, because it slips through our hands
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I’ve always found time to be an elusive gizmo!
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Sometimes, to get unstuck, out of our own, heads, is to, look up…
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Yes, I do a lot of, looking up …
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“Where life is not a crime,” is a punchy line
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Thank you for your dynamic appraisal, Derrick
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Beautifully wistful. I love the ‘during my daydream time’ line….time is an escape in a way.
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Time is one of those slippery gizmos that you cannot hang onto …
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