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  • Don’t Worry, Home is Anywhere

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  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 29

  • The Aging of Timber

  • A Love Note

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  • How Soon We Forget: Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 28

  • Tending my Garden

  • Pierrot

  • Whenever I Miss You, You Always Come Running

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Author: Ivor Steven

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  • The image is of an old pigeon flying in a cloudy sky
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Don’t Worry, Home is Anywhere

    By Ivor Steven
    September 28, 2026
    I’m a plain-grey old pigeon,just one of our worldwide flock,and under nature’s supervisionwe’re allowed to fly anywhereacross this land’s hostile block.You’ll see us circling ...
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  • The image shows a grey twilight sky with golden sunbeams shining down from holes in the clouds
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Odd Extremes

    By Ivor Steven
    September 14, 2026
    I see evening sunbeamsstealing through the sky’s seams —I wonder what it means. Are they the streamsof forgotten cosmic dreamsbreaking freefrom the atmosphere’sholy levees? ...
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  • The image is of new spring flowers reaching for sun under a cloudy sky
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Spring Will Never Vanish

    By Ivor Steven
    August 31, 2026
    Spring is not vanishing nor dying,Fresh grass reappears in the mossy ravine;There will always be birds in the sky. Clouds do not stop rolling ...
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  • The image is of bird in the entrance of a tunnel, and the birds feathers are sparkling from light outside of the tunnel.
    Poetry

    The Tunnel of Light

    By Ivor Steven
    August 17, 2026
    On the shadowed edgeof the causeway’s secluded tunnel,I see blurry streaksof bespeckled light. Nothing is certain here –not a breath of wind in sight –only ...
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  • The image is of a pigeon with full wingspan flying toward the afternoon sun
    Rhyming PoemsPoetry

    A Global Suntan

    By Ivor Steven
    August 3, 2026
    Flying with wings at full span,I am the world’s missionary man —delivering hand to hand,without needing to land. I’m carrying the world’s master plan:man-to-man ...
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  • The image is of a bird flying among streaky cirrus clouds
    Rhyming PoemsPoetry

    Uluru, Kakadu, Kathmandu, and Xanadu

    By Ivor Steven
    July 20, 2026
    Above the trees’ shadowy view,the midday sky is royal blue,and streaky cirrus clouds from Ulurulook like a court jester’s hairdo. I see the wise ...
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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 an old pigeon flying in a cloudy sky

    Don’t Worry, Home is Anywhere

    By Ivor Steven
    September 28, 2026
  • a black and white painting of an open sardine tin on a blue starry background

    Fish Heads

    By Erynn Crittenden
    September 21, 2026
  • A brown and white dog laying on a gray dog bed chewing on a bone.

    Grief, Hope, and Parker

    By Jaclyn Weber-Hill
    September 21, 2026
  • Image of Wildcat Falls in Merrimack, NH; the shot focusses on large, gray stones creating eddies in a wide stream in the middle of a pine tree forest

    For Mom

    By Lexi
    September 21, 2026
  • wooden puppet on string

    Real Girl

    By Scarlett Faye
    September 21, 2026
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    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
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    Why, God? Why?

    By Rene' Thompson
    April 29, 2019

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