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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Wow, this is such a beautifully uplifting poem, Ivor. To me it has perfect musical flow and rhyming. And content is equally perfect. No matter how much adversity, there is always hope to go on. Love the Book Bird!
We do but they are not โartificialโ as the definition for chicane says. The roads around me wind as Iโm pretty sure they used to be cow paths. ๐
This is so beautiful, and so inspiring, Ivor! An encouragement to all of us to flutter our wings and…soar! ๐
Oh, I love book shops! (that quote on the chalkboard is wonderful!)
HUGS!!! ๐
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The memories live on… ๐
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Hopefully in a positive way……
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Beautifully, poignantly, penned
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Thank you Derrick…. yes a few positive words to go with my good week…..
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So glad you’re having a good week. May they all be so!
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Thanks Peter… Maybe the chicanes won’t be so sharp anymore….
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This is such a beautiful depiction of rising through adverse emotions and circumstances โฅ
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Thank you Mona, and to be positive with my words, as no matter what life is good ๐๐๐
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Yes, it is!!
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I needed something like this today Ivor. Thank you. โค
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Yeah… we could sing the song together ๐๐ถ
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Yes we could ๐
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Wow, this is such a beautifully uplifting poem, Ivor. To me it has perfect musical flow and rhyming. And content is equally perfect. No matter how much adversity, there is always hope to go on. Love the Book Bird!
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Yes the The Book Bird, is a quaint little book shop, and I couldn’t help myself, and that poetry chapbook….
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This poem does flow so well – I can see it set to music. Glad to hear youโre having a good week!
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Yes, maybe my chicanes won’t be so sharp in the future….xxx
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Full disclosure- I had to look up what chicanes were! ๐ I donโt think we have those in the USA. I hope you will be chicane-free! โค๏ธ
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I thought you had plenty of winding roads …..
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We do but they are not โartificialโ as the definition for chicane says. The roads around me wind as Iโm pretty sure they used to be cow paths. ๐
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Cow paths and Chicanes…. I think chicane sounds betterer ๐ค๐
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Yes, probably smell better too…๐
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This is so beautiful, and so inspiring, Ivor! An encouragement to all of us to flutter our wings and…soar! ๐
Oh, I love book shops! (that quote on the chalkboard is wonderful!)
HUGS!!! ๐
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Yes it’s a quaint little book shop, and yes I bought that poetry book…… As for my poem, it seemed to be a nice summary for me… ๐๐๐ค
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