Beyond the broken porthole
I stand on a basin pedestal
I’m going down with the ship
She left the wreck last week
Left my bones in the bathroom
Drowning in the blue lagoon
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Last night there was a fire down the street
On the other side of the creek
I heard the commotion in my sleep
The old farmhouse was burnt to the ground
And lingering smoke on the water whispered sounds
Of memories lost and a loyal dachshund
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The Alien poet’s brain
Is a fascinating place
A distant surreal view
Hooked, like a fish on a line
Laying tomorrows foundations
On old pieces of used paper
Using dried up ink as mortar
And the sky is the work’s next brick
Remembering yesterdays sunshine
Is today’s dawn and beyond
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
Very Emotive! 🙂Good Image!
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Thank you ❤️ Adnama, they’re pieces from my imagination about 3 different scenarios
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Best place to bring them from. It is where most if not all of where mine comes from.
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Ivor, this is poetically rich.
I see through the melancholy ,
by the Alien Poet,
you’ve been truly blessed.
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I think it’s all caused by watching 55 years of Doctor Who, and searching for fellow alien companionship.
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The Doctor has always been
a good travelling companion.
Tom Baker was always my
favourite one (being modelled
on Bob Dylan).
Now he’s trans into a woman!?
Throughout my time travels,
Ivor, I’ve discovered I was never
truly alone.
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I’m looking forward to the next Doctor Who series. 😊 I don’t watch much TV, but I do watch the Doctor 📺. It’s great that you’re a fellow Whovian
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I really like this:
“The Alien poet’s brain
Is a fascinating place
A distant surreal view”
I think that’s the wonderful thing about poetry, is that it is one of the few ways we can help open see things in an alien way.
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Thanks Samantha, my friends at the pub think I’m a bit of crazy poet, so I use the word Alien quite a lot throughout my poems, and like you say, we allow ourselves to view our surrounds from outside the bubble of normal life …
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i understand – and I think a bit of weirdness is necessary in poetry (good poetry, anyway). We need voices that are creative, different, or even strange – otherwise everything begins to look the same.
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I’m one for jotting done my weird thoughts and pieces of my dreams that I remember, and some of my poems are formed from these collective bits. Also I’d like to thank you for following my blog/website, muchly appreciated, I hope you enjoy reading my humble writings, and I’m from Geelong, Australia. Cheers Ivor.
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That sounds like a perfectly admirable way to do poetry to me. And thank you likewise for the follow! I definitely look forward to reading more. FYI, I’m from Oregon in the United States!
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I look forward to reading your posts too. I’m outside gardening in my little courtyard at the moment, I shall visit later….
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Another wonderful and surreal poem, my friend!
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Thank you ❤️ Kayla, I’ll put it down to the cold winter winds, blowing through my hibernating mind, giving me a sharp icy edge to Alien eyes 👀
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Man, I need to get me some of those cold, winter winds!
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Hehehe, it’s blowing a gale here today.
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I’m in the dead heat currently and would love some wintery weather!
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Watch out, up in your northern skies
Forces of nature are being sent by Alien eyes
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I so understand you… we were stuck in that until a few days ago… it’ll change, resist! 😀
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Pushing through it!
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Alien poet… you are so talented
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And it’s good of the “The Men In Black” to let me stay out here on the planet 🌏 and allowing me to keep writing my alien 👾 words. 😊 😊
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Yes! Us Earthlings are very lucky yo have you
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Beautiful, and I like the way you convey a comfortable sadness.
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Thank you Mark, your comments are comforting…. I hope you don’t mind, I’m attaching a post of mine, which is a collection of poems, only read if wish to do so.
https://wp.me/p6B6QE-1dD
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thank you. I’ll be glad to.
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fascinating, the three vistas patched together creates a wonderful view. well done, creative and very interesting to be taken on this joy ride
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Oh it’s my alien eyes, they’ve been roving around planet earth 🌏 today 😆
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its a keen and observant eye indeed
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(((Alien hugs)))
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(((human hugs back!)))
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Lovely.
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Thank you..
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Welcome
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I like aliens 🙂 but I prefer to call them Space Beings or Space Family !
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I’ve always been a Doctor Who fan.. 😆
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For some reason I am very drawn to the line “I heard the commotion in my sleep”. There’s something about it. Maybe it strikes a cord with me about how I’ve “heard” things in my sleep while dreaming…..
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I think hearing something in your sleep, ties in with a dramatic event happening. 😊
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I agree. I have had dreams that I could not shake the ‘message’ of.
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Yes, and they must be important to have stuck there xx
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Exactly…..though sometimes I am not sure of the meaning.
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Are any of us sure of “The Meaning”
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Very possibly not Ivor….I guess it is often our interpretation that is what gives it meaning.
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I’ll keep interpreting and writing
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Perfect.
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In the meantime, till the
next regenerated Doctor
is released, I miss the old
Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
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Yes, I enjoyed his style. I was always fascinated by the writers wonderful imaginations, and of course for me everything alien is real, ….
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Ever get that feeling, Ivor, that your surrounded by
alien predatory life forms?
Especially when your doing
the banking?
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I think they’re under the houses, and in the ceilings, in the trenches, yep, that’s why I go to the pub on Thursday instead of the bank, always safer at the pub, you can always shoot them down with a beer 🍻 gun 🔫, I bet they’ve been shot with beer,.. 😆
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All the aliens 👽I know love a shot with their beer 🍺.!
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True poetry, Ivor
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Thank you Derrick,
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You are a most beautiful Alien Poet who shares from the heart and soul!
And the images in this poem are so vivid and memorable, Ivor!
HUGS!!! 👽
PS…I have a friend who has always said that I am an Alien. So, I say, “Well, until The Mother-ship comes to pick me up…you’re stuck with me!” 😉 😛
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Yes, we are all aliens in a foreign land, but I’m afraid most of the racist and bigoted people don’t understand. And I wish the mother ship would take them away. 😊
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HA! We should look into arranging that! Get them off of planet Earth for good! 😉 😛
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Maybe the mother ship could Zap them to change to change their stupid brains 💥💥
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Ivor, I’m enjoying your not of this world poetry. My favourite Dr Who actor was Matt Smith, with David Tennant coming in as a close second. Having previously liked Peter Capaldi, for me the Dr Who role was wrong for him and he failed to draw me in.
I cannot get my head around the sex change of Dr Who. The hero, the knight in shining armour persona, the protective male character has always won me over and I’m not alone in my disappointment that the BBC has introduced a young woman, Jodie Whittaker to replace our traditional male hero. What were they thinking?
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Yes,!! What are thinking. But I’ll wait to see the new series first before passing judgement, I’ll always be a Whovian 😎🙄
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I will enjoy the series, but will grieve for the loss of my knight, my hero!
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Don’t worry, sir Ivor will rescue.
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How you find such words to write poems ! Beautiful poem !
‘On old pieces of used paper ‘
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Thank you, sorry I’ve not been around much, I’ve been having computer problems for quite a while.. https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/09/28/alls-well-ive-a-dell/
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