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  • What Is Music?

  • Is My Horizon Unreachable?

  • A Modern Proposal

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 23

  • Beyond Heaven’s Gates

  • Searching for Answers

  • From Survivor to Thriver

  • Still in Transit

  • Living My Truth

  • Living in the Shade

  • Anxiety versus Intuition

  • I Stopped to Listen

  • Someday in Paradise

  • Summer Dreams

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 22

  • Light in the Forest

  • Neptune’s Fortune Part 6

  • Tomorrow Calls

  • A Circle in the Sand

  • A Monster’s Song

Author: Ivor Steven

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  • The image is of a bird flying below the wires, hanging between the pylons and posts.
    Poetry

    Is My Horizon Unreachable?

    By Ivor Steven
    July 6, 2026
    I’m following an interrupted flight pathof thick, black, wiry lineswhich crisscross inside my mind,like aerial railroad tracksthat travel for miles and miles —endlessly from ...
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  • My image which prompted my poem is of the sky shrouded in Cirrus clouds with a distant daytime half moon in a pocket between the clouds and a Lark flying low in the clouds
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Living in the Shade

    By Ivor Steven
    June 22, 2026
    Above the Earth’s war-torn meadows,beyond this world’s dark shadowsand ghostly echoes,I wonder about life in the ghettosand the refugee’s grim grottos. Rarely will the ...
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  • The image is Photomontage, of a dim muted horizon, and crow flying above the horizon, (which is the glued on piece
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Climbing Time

    By Ivor Steven
    June 8, 2026
    From below the horizon’s muted edge,where the earth softens its ledge,I begin my daily climb one broken rung at a time. It’s not that ...
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  • The image is of a bird flying in the clouds
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    I’m Quietly Flying Around

    By Ivor Steven
    May 25, 2026
    Up here,with my head in the clouds,talking to myself is allowed,without hearing the maddening crowd,and I’m free to be clever and proud Then, while ...
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  • The image is of a fawn twilight sky sitting over the setting sun and a grey cloud band, which could be interpreted as a 'Timeline.'
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    An Interview With Time

    By Ivor Steven
    May 11, 2026
    Time is impossible to tie down,and has me totally spellbound.Time wears an invisible crown,and interviewing Time — of such mystical renown —did send my ...
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  • The image is a photomontage of my computer desk, a Pandora Box, and my imaginary space craft, 'ITMIMS' (Ivor's Time Machine In Micro Space)
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Email Overload

    By Ivor Steven
    April 27, 2026
    There is privacy pirating and phishing.I’d rather go for a day of fishing.There’s a file especially made for spamThat stains everything like loganberry jam. ...
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  • The image is of black bird flying toward the sun.
    Poetry

    Arise With My Light

    By Ivor Steven
    April 13, 2026
    Arisewith my light.I am calling youfrom beyond the black sea.Open your eyesand fly to me. Ascendfrom the holy landand the burning sand.Release your soul,and ...
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  • The image is of the sun setting behind a ribbon of clouds
    Poetry

    A Fistful of Sand

    By Ivor Steven
    March 30, 2026
    There, above the edge,I see a frayed ribbon of cloudhiding your fading twilight eye. Fortunately, it’s not dark yet,and I can still feelyour deflated ...
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  • The image is of silver teaspoon with the initials "MS" (Multiple Sclerosis) embossed on the handle button.
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Between, Inside, and Beyond

    By Ivor Steven
    March 16, 2026
    I can hear the knocking,and the place is rocking,but my cell needs unlocking.  Between the sun and moonis there a spare roomfor me and ...
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  • The image shows the color of the dawn sky above the western horizon
    PoetryTanka

    Dawn’s Symphony of Light

    By Ivor Steven
    March 2, 2026
    Dawn’s curtain opens.I hear a cascade of lightGently greet my eyes –A symphony of all thingsThat belong beyond the dark. Editor: Erynn Crittenden
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  • There is a piano shown in the image along with a music sheet that lies slightly atop the piano, faint shadows shown underneath the paper as well.

    What Is Music?

    By Rowan Moskowitz
    July 6, 2026
  • The image is of a bird flying below the wires, hanging between the pylons and posts.

    Is My Horizon Unreachable?

    By Ivor Steven
    July 6, 2026
  • Across a rainbow background, a bathroom sign shows the silhouette of a man, woman, ghost, fairy, alien, and the bat signal. Underneath, it reads "Whatever, just wash your hands!"

    A Modern Proposal

    By Shannon Richards
    June 29, 2026
  • A dark, shadowed bundle of pomegranates with the text Of Lockets and Pomeganates.

    Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 23

    By Phayth Less
    June 29, 2026
  • An orange butterfly with white and black patterns on top of purple flowers

    Beyond Heaven’s Gates

    By Scarlett Faye
    June 29, 2026
  • photos

    Going For A Stroll

    By Ivor Steven
    July 26, 2021
  • Somewhere in Limbo

    In This Limbo

    By Ivor Steven
    August 23, 2021
  • The strong undertows at Barwon Heads

    Strong Undertows

    By Ivor Steven
    December 27, 2021
  • Rain on glass with a gradient of light behind.

    A New Melody

    By Andrew Wilson
    July 21, 2025
  • Moon

    Why, God? Why?

    By Rene' Thompson
    April 29, 2019

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