Author: ivor20

I am proud to present another poem from my book “Tullawalla”, Hope After Babylon, which I originally wrote on August 29th 2019.

Hope After Babylon (Tullawalla, page 146)

Distant love is a hidden pain

Caught in the shadows of moonlit rain

I walked away yesterday

And I sing in harmony today

Beyond the blue horizon line

Loyally, in due time

I shall touch the unreachable

And find my star’s cable

We the desolate, keep hanging on

There has always been hope after Babylon

Then we must let go to stop the bleed

Allow a next dancer to take the lead

Honesty in true love is hard to find

Thetruth of love is like a gold-mine

I’ve stayed in silence for many years

Eventually, my silence grew wings made of tears

And soared above my fears

True love under the stars

Remains in my memoirs

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Martin’s last task yesterday before he left for the weekend was to

most carefully post out the levels of the patio, ensuring that there was the requisite minimal slope for draining off any excess water. Now we await delivery of the stone.

My blogging friend, Ivor.Plumber/Poet has, for many years, been accumulating a ‘Derrick file’ of photographs which he occasionally uses to illustrate his posted poems. This Christmas he has produced

which arrived a couple of days ago. The artistic covers, by the poet’s American niece, thus linking three continents, are based on my photograph which provides a frontispiece.

Three of the photographs are by Jackie. This double spread gives a flavour of those and of Ivor’s poetry.

My author photograph, taken by Becky five years ago, appropriately also shows my wife.

This evening we dined on lemon chicken and Jackie’s egg savoury rice with which I finished the Gran…