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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46 thoughts on “My Bamboo Kite”
Your verse soars like the kite, Ivor. Nice song too.
It’ll be your spring when I get to New York.. No haven’t packed a thing yet !!. I was in hospital for another 3 days ,, 10 days ago… but I checked out ok, I’m well but not as fit as wanted to be, a few extra setbacks has slowed me down. Thank you Calen, and I’m glad you like My Kite xx
That’s great, Ivor. I was reading it from my angle and the angle of some of my peers who are feeling the call of freedom by escaping troubles here and going to their Heavenly rest. I guess I’ve been attending too many funerals. You are young and have time to fly freely right here loosed from your sickness. 😀
I’ve always loved kites! And your kite photo, poem and song encourage me to fly free and high in the bright blue sky! 🙂
Keep flyin’, Ivor! You have a lot of “sky” to explore and adventure-in! 😀
HUGSS!!! 🙂
Ivor.Plumber/Poet 
Your verse soars like the kite, Ivor. Nice song too.
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Thank you Punam, and I loved the the gorgeous video with the song, it so resonated with what I was trying to say
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You are welcome. It sure did.
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My favorite game as a child, LOL
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Thank you Laleh, yes, flying a childs dream.
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True.<3<3<3
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Beautiful piece, Ivor! So lighthearted and uplifting!!! 😉
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Thank you Beckie, up and away we go 😊
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Oh I love this!!! I felt myself inspired to fly and be free 🙂
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I’m Happy it resonated with you 😉
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Beautiful! Love both your poem and the video. So good to feel free and have hope.
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Thank you Marta, yes we all hope for freedom, and the video depicted beautifully xx
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You are welcome. Yes, the video is great and so is your poem.
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Again thanks, yes concise and effective
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The perfect video to match your verse Ivor!
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I searched for hours to find a video that resonated my thoughts, and you’re right Peter, the video seemed a perfect fit
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Let’s go fly a kite – Mary Poppins.
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I looked at that one Chris !!, but I found this little off beat video, and it instantly appealed to me for my poem…..
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The joys of the interweb Ivor never fails to come up trumps.
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I prefer another trick won, than a trump lost
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Love it Ivor, ties cut and flying free 🙂
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Yes a sweet way to send my message
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Great Spring poem, Ivor. No wait! It’s not Spring there, is it? Autumn? So are you all packed for your trip and feeling well??? ❤
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It’ll be your spring when I get to New York.. No haven’t packed a thing yet !!. I was in hospital for another 3 days ,, 10 days ago… but I checked out ok, I’m well but not as fit as wanted to be, a few extra setbacks has slowed me down. Thank you Calen, and I’m glad you like My Kite xx
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I’m going to be praying for you while you’re gone, my dear friend… ❤
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Thank you Calen, I’ll need all the help I can get, travelling by myself is sure to be daunting.
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Such a small passtime, but described in such a great way!
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And set my spirit free!
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Oh Oneta, The poem is about me gradually getting better, and recovering from my strokes and finally being able to fly free of my sickness. ✈️
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That’s great, Ivor. I was reading it from my angle and the angle of some of my peers who are feeling the call of freedom by escaping troubles here and going to their Heavenly rest. I guess I’ve been attending too many funerals. You are young and have time to fly freely right here loosed from your sickness. 😀
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Yes definitely a positive outlook, and that’s why I chose that lovely video…..
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I’ve always loved kites! And your kite photo, poem and song encourage me to fly free and high in the bright blue sky! 🙂
Keep flyin’, Ivor! You have a lot of “sky” to explore and adventure-in! 😀
HUGSS!!! 🙂
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Yes Carolyn !! The poem is about me gradually getting recovering from my strokes and finally being able to fly free of my sickness. ✈️✈️😁
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deeply profound, thanks for the reminder …must buy a kite as there are plenty of places to fly it here!
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Oh wow, they’re such natural fun….
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I used to fly one at Mum’s all the time and you reminded me it’s missing … she is more frail now so can’t walk along the beach with me as I fly it!
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Maybe she could watch you from the car-park..
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lol blessed that we have NO car parks near our beach!
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Oh humbug, 😁
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your words, i’m their fan. so beautiful and calms your soul.
it’s really good!
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Hello Laiba, thank you for your kind comments
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Nice imagery in this kite of flight. I’ve always been intrigued by the kite.
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Thanks Mark, they are so representative of life’s ups and downs
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Beautiful poem.
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Thank you Joyce … yep .. we love our kites ..
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