It wasn’t that much of a task,
To be with me.
It wasn’t too much to ask,
To let her be.
What’s it like, to be that past lover.
What’s it like, to be a distant mother.
What’s it like, to have no real cover.
What’s it like, to have a body of another.
It wasn’t too much to ask,
To let her be.
What’s it like, to be about and free.
What’s it like, to be a fish in the sea.
What’s it like, to be a queen bee.
What’s it like, to smile with glee.
Please set her free,
And give her back to me.
Let her be,
And set her free.
Ivor Steven.
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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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Ivor, when did you write this? And did you share any of your beautiful writings with your wife?
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Yes I did Colleen, but a bit selectively, she thought of them as being cute, haha, she’d never want to hurt my feelings…..
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I’m sure they meant more to her Ivor. You write so much about your love for her. That mattered.
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So nice of you to
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Probably about 10 years ago, but I never dated my poems, and struggled to keep them in any sort of order. I didn’t think them important, just words handwritten as a physical and mental release.
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I never titled anything I wrote until I started blogging. But for some reason, as a very young child, I started dating everything I wrote. I never called it ‘poetry’. I may tag things I write as poetry on my blog, but I still don’t consider it poetry in my head when I’m writing .
And I understand the release writing gives.
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Beautiful. You have such a poetic soul, Ivor.
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Not sure how poetic I am, But I do know that my soul dwells in an ocean fill by tears
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Fill, filling, filled. Then emptied.
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Ah, perceptive of you, nice, ta.
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No worries, Ivor.
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Writing absolutely gives you a release like no other.
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its beautiful
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Thankyou Soiba
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A beautiful one Ivor. I read it thrice. It has so much rhythm that it could be a song.
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Thanks Karen, a lot of my poems tend to be rhythmical, I’m thoroughly influenced by singer songwriters, their words and music, which are continuously resonating through my little abode. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, John Lennon, Paul Simon, David Francey, Sean Rowe, Australians Paul Kelly, Neil Finn, Xavier Rudd and of course the sublime Leonard Cohen, and so many more. I suppose I nearly write along to their tunes, ….
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Hey Ivor,
I have nominated you for versatile Blogger award.
Check my latest post.
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/67807019/posts/1526804015
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Thankyou so much for your Nomination, however, I’m unsure about how to proceed with these awards, and maybe a bit uncomfortable with receiving awards at this stage of my life. But I sincerely appreciate your very kind consideration of my Blog site.
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you’re welcome 🙂
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Lovely and heart wrenching poem, Ivor.
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It’s from a while ago, hope you don’t mind, but there’s lots of poems from that time of my life.
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Poems are expressions that are needed to set free. Time is of no importance.
Ivor, did you get Carrie’s email regarding Jason’s mask?
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Hi Rose, so heartwarming of you to read my words. I’ve just checked my emails, and no message from Carrie yet.
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My pleasure! Hmm. Thanks Ivor. We’ll get this squared away.
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Calming & so engaging. You are a beautiful poet Igor, thank you for sharing your gift. 💫
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Not sure what sort of poet I am, but writing is a gift of release, self therapy and pleasure for me, and has reignit
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Whoops, has helped me reignite myself after suffering a Stroke 17 years ago. And thankyou so very much for following my website, hope you’ll enjoy my words. Cheers from “Ivor” here in Geelong, Australia.
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The “release to the universe” is my favourite part! ✏️ 🙌
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Thankyou, you’re my first “Dr” follower/friend, and that’s nice ….
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Whoops again, not good on these little ohone keypad things. Anyhow I was gunna say,, since the last time I spoke to a psychologist, 4 years ago, and she was of enormous benefit to me at that stage of my life. …ta
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The feelings are so beautifully expressed in a poetic form. Amazed. Would love to see more of your poems, so well written. 👌
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I love this so much!
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Thankyou Caroline(lovely name), about my lady/wife, maybe written 10 years ago
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You’re welcome, it’s beautiful! and thank you😊
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I agree that this is very song lyricy (just made up that word). It’s beautiful Ivor.
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Thanks Peter, yes somebody to write a tune to this piece would be lovely.
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hahaha…again a translation problem…with “tune” you mean a comment about the content, no? “tune” was translated for me as song/ musik….I think also not a bad idea, as I saw there are millions of songs “let her go” and I found not one with “let her be”!
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Yes, I’ve often thought some of my words could be good songs.
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for sure they could!
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I’ve got a musician friend, but he always says my words are too sad
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really? But this one is not sad! The end sounds very positive…and if it ends good, everything sad before, was worth to burden…
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What a beautiful poet you are Ivor…i love this one.
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Thankyou, ah, nice to be called a beautiful poet, hopefully more about my poems, than looks. I’m pleased you liked “Let Her Be” a personally emotional writing for me, that’s been tucked away. ….
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I indeed love your poems…
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So beautiful.
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Ah thanks again, I see the book worm in you is delving away.
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Trust me, I’ve searched for your best works and have absolutely loved it. I’m a huge bookworm and a teenager, so I love it ❤
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There’s a few blog sites I’ll thoroughly recommend to you to have a look at, mainly because they’re all so very diverse and different. Yellingrosa, chatter blog, O at the edges, and sheldonk2014.
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Sure, thanks for the recommendations!
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And for good humour, SIMPLE OBSERVATIONS
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I’ll be sure to check this one out ❤
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Oh be sure to read ,yellingrosa, blog on “Paucalism”, I think it’s the sort of article that would interest you.
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Thanks!
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When it comes to love
There is always a position of compromises
As Sheldon Always
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a wonderful poetry about love, ivor! Taking is also giving. In order to experience great happiness, pain must also be accepted. I think it’s wonderful how positive this poem is … finally charming … “What’s it like, to be about and free.
/ A fish in the sea / a queen bee to smile with glee …. “…with this, you got me!
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Thanks Special One, it’s lovely that you like this verse, it’s a personal favourite of mine . Ta. ♡
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it´s also a favorite of mine!
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I have to check your recommondation aswell, thank you for this, ivor!
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