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  • Dessert Before Dinner

  • Sitting With Discomfort

  • Neptune’s Fortune: Part 2

  • Pastel Pink Nightmare

  • Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 18

  • One Last Time

  • The Birds’ New Song

  • Goblin’s Unexpected Visitor

  • An Ode to the Seasons

  • A Gentle Pause

  • Shooting Stars

  • Spring Has Sprung

  • Boredom is Necessary

  • Dissection

  • The Three Rabbits of Oestravale

  • Spring Nights

  • Lover of the Queen: Wish

  • Arise With My Light

  • The World We Leave Them

  • Jealousy

Author: Ivor Steven

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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
    TankaPoetry

    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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  • The image a of magpie on a post about to take flight
    Rhyming PoemsPoetry

    Beyond My Outpost

    By Ivor Steven
    February 16, 2026
    Perched on a foreign outpost,Above the world’s unplanned commands,I’m anxiously looking acrossFor somewhere safe to land. Whether it be the East’s desert sand,Or the ...
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  • The image is of an old bookcase which sits in the corner of my favorite cafe
    Poetry

    The Cafe’s Rustic Bookcase

    By Ivor Steven
    February 2, 2026
    I’ve been staring at the café’s bookcase,Searching for the momentsMy words have failed to find. Maybe they are hidden in the ice chest,Under the ...
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  • The image is of a weird 'clock' bike on a bridge over river.
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Time, My Muse

    By Ivor Steven
    January 19, 2026
    Time rolls past all beingsLike the wind – we know it’s been,But it cannot be seen.Time does not hide behind a screen,Nor make a ...
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  • The image is of a daylight moon adrift in the wispy clouds.
    Rhyming PoemsPoetry

    Always Deck the Hallways

    By Ivor Steven
    December 15, 2025
    Beyond December lights,remember the nights. Breathe the longer days;bathe under the moon’s bright berets. Praise the sun’s eternal gaze –life’s celestial causeway. Editor: Erynn ...
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  • The image is of a crow as it arcs below the sun, through the late afternoon sky— (a visual silhouette of hunger)
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Climbing the Stairs

    By Ivor Steven
    December 1, 2025
    Has the sun become our unattainable star? Is our darkness extending too far? Is our ozone layer beyond all repair? It seems our governments ...
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  • the image is of a dark stormy sky, and I imagine the clouds to look a Trojan Horse
    Poetry

    Trojan Cloud

    By Ivor Steven
    November 17, 2025
    The long-suffering,foreboding Trojan cloud,that was openly waitingunder the Sun’s shining sling,stormily forewarnedthe unsuspecting crowd: “Hard rain shall destroy your ground,after the warlord’s unofficial kinghas ...
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    Dessert Before Dinner

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    April 20, 2026
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    Sitting With Discomfort

    By Jaclyn Weber-Hill
    April 20, 2026
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    Neptune’s Fortune: Part 2

    By Amanda L. Shirk
    April 20, 2026
  • Pink flowers and trees with pink blossoms under a dark overcast sky.

    Pastel Pink Nightmare

    By Rockebah C. Stewart
    April 20, 2026
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    Of Lockets and Pomegranates: Chapter 18

    By Phayth Less
    April 20, 2026
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    Going For A Stroll

    By Ivor Steven
    July 26, 2021
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    In This Limbo

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

    Strong Undertows

    By Ivor Steven
    December 27, 2021
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    A New Melody

    By Andrew Wilson
    July 21, 2025
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    Why, God? Why?

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