Stale Air. A Haiku
Are we the drowned ones
Laying beside our beached whales
Unable to breathe
Ivor Steven (c) May 2020.
Stale Air
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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. View all posts by ivor20
I think we might be
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If we are not doing anything positive, we Cc might as well be.
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Yes,.. that’s the problem… we are not doing enough… to save the whales,… nor are we doing enough… to save ourselves…
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Exactly, Ivor. And woe be on us humans for being so shortsighted and callous.
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Exactly.. 💙🌏
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🙏
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It certainly feels like, though I have spent hours self-healing today.
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If we are not prepared to save the whales…. how are we going save ourselves
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Even standing here breathing it feels like it sometimes.
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Yes…. we are is desperate need of new air/ideas…
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I love this! ❤
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Thank you Ruthie. I like to do Haiku’s, 💙🌏
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More than likely, yes.
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Most likely, we are and too dumb to realise it for the most part
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Yes,.. despite the obvious, we bury our heads in the sand….. with our own hands…
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Great poem, Ivor–and the beach looks like Paradise.
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The beach is Byron Bay,, north coast of New South Wales.. yes a bit like paradise… 🌏
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🙂
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I havent seen a whale yet..😐😐😐i hope we they something to save them❤
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If we having trouble saving the whales….. how are we going to save us from ourselves….
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I agree😊
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A very moving haiku! Thank you for sharing this beautiful song by Lisa Hannigan. I love her voice.
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Yes Constance, Lisa is a fabulous singer, and song seemed to suit my poem ok…
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Aw. 😦
Yes, some people don’t care about the whales…maybe that’s why they don’t seem to care about the safety and health of other people. 😦
We should care and be helping all of nature AND our fellow-travelers on the earth.
(((HUGS)))
Such a timely, powerful haiku, Ivor!
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That’s the point I was trying to make in my Haiku… If we are not good enough to look after our whales/nature….. how are we going to look after each other…. xxx
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Wonderful
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Thank you 😊🤗
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It’s a pleasure
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