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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My poem over simplifies our existence and love, .. but I’m trying say that we should grasp how wondrous life is…. and that we are here… and that we exist…
I always click on the song/vid and let it play while I look at your photo and read your poem.
This combo brought some tears. Such a beautiful combo of Sia’s song and your poem, Ivor.
This past year with all of the sadness, I’ve had times I’ve had to remind myself to breath.
I’m so grateful to still be on the earth! I have so much to thankful for! I so appreciate nature! I so so SO appreciate my family, my friends, my neighbors!
Ivor, I wish you and all of your friends and readers much love!
❤️ 🧡 💛 🖤 🤎 🤍 💚 💙 💜 ❤️
(((HUGS)))
Thank you Carolyn .. and lots of love and best wishes to your family…. My poem is me pondering about life, and how wonderous our existence is… our existence of being here…. that we have air and love to breathe…. our existence is a wondrous miracle Carolyn…. Life is as simple as that…. air and love are our invisible miracles… 💜💙💚💛🧡❤🌏🌎
Ivor, this is lovely. 💛
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Thank you Kelley…. I’ve been pondering ‘our’ existence lately… 💙🌏…
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The truth of nature all around us is constant and unchanging!
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Yes Dwight… and hopefully we may start understanding and appreciate our position along side nature and her environment…. we have so much to learn…
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beauty all around us to appreciate –
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Yes … breathe the air, appreciate our wondrous existence….
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Beautiful!
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Thank you Sadje… we are but the air we breathe
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Indeed.
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Mind blowing 👌
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Thank you Rajani… Oh.. just take a deep breathe… keep your mind in one piece,.. 😀🙄
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My pleasure
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Oh, I agree! There is certainly enough love even if we don’t always see it or know how to access it! It is universal 🌌
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My poem over simplifies our existence and love, .. but I’m trying say that we should grasp how wondrous life is…. and that we are here… and that we exist…
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You don’t need to say more!
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I always click on the song/vid and let it play while I look at your photo and read your poem.
This combo brought some tears. Such a beautiful combo of Sia’s song and your poem, Ivor.
This past year with all of the sadness, I’ve had times I’ve had to remind myself to breath.
I’m so grateful to still be on the earth! I have so much to thankful for! I so appreciate nature! I so so SO appreciate my family, my friends, my neighbors!
Ivor, I wish you and all of your friends and readers much love!
❤️ 🧡 💛 🖤 🤎 🤍 💚 💙 💜 ❤️
(((HUGS)))
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Thank you Carolyn .. and lots of love and best wishes to your family…. My poem is me pondering about life, and how wonderous our existence is… our existence of being here…. that we have air and love to breathe…. our existence is a wondrous miracle Carolyn…. Life is as simple as that…. air and love are our invisible miracles… 💜💙💚💛🧡❤🌏🌎
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🙂
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Uplifting thoughts
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Thank you Derrick… probably I oversimplified the concept… but it’s the thought that counts…
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Beautiful. Truth is in the air.
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Thank you Bella, yes the truth lives in the air, and love lives in the air, enough for all to share
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So true and love lives in the air.
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Beautiful and inspiring, Ivor!🧡 💛 💚 💙
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Thank you Eugenia, how beautiful it is that we even exist. 💙🌏
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Yes, indeed, Ivor! 🌞
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Very Beautiful!!
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Thank you… and no matter the colour we are all mother nature’s pearls… 😀
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You are very welcome, yes 🙂
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Right? The truth is there whether we acknowledge it or not.
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As is human nature, we seem to take our wondrous existence for granted…
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That is so true Ivor. There are times though, I think more as we age, that we become acutely aware of…the brevity of it.
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It is a pity we have age before we slow enough to soak it all up..
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It really is Ivor.
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Truth is in the air … and love lives there. You do have a way, my friend. You do have a way.
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I hope I am heading the right way… Thank you Claudia.
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You do every day
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