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Author: Ivor Steven

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  • lit candle sitting on a windowsill at night
    Poetry

    Tonight, Hold Your Curtain Open

    By Ivor Steven
    May 13, 2024
    Tonight, hold your curtain open I did not know where you are Nor how to reach your distant star Please, leave your light on and drapes ajar  ...
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  • The image depicts where a river mouth joins onto the sea.
    Poetry

    Thirsting For Freedom

    By Ivor Steven
    April 29, 2024
    Thirsting for freedomThe frantic raindropsFell, right in front of me! Slapping the arid groundFilling the gasping cracksZigzagging their wayDown the sandy creek bedBubbling into ...
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  • Rippling currents of water in multiple shades of blue
    Poetry

    Walking On Water

    By Ivor Steven
    April 15, 2024
    I tried walking on water But like the Titanic, I sankSailing under the ancient ocean I felt solemnly sympathetic  I tried flying without wings And like a ...
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  • Black trimmed compass laying on a cream white background
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    An Unused Compass

    By Ivor Steven
    April 1, 2024
    Inside the White House of JusticeI found an unused compassThe dial was both black and whitePointing up, down, left, and rightNot the normal North-south, ...
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  • The moon at midnight
    EnvironmentPoetry

    Moonstruck At Midnight

    By Ivor Steven
    March 18, 2024
    Midnight I ventured outside Among luminescent wavelets of moonbeams   Midmorning I walked through  Fluorescent ringlets of moonlight  Midafternoon I fell into Dreamtime I could not stop the cascade  I could not ...
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  • The dark chasm
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    The Dark Chasm

    By Ivor Steven
    March 4, 2024
      There is a dark chasm in the groundHere, on the wrong side of town Beyond the precarious edgeI cannot see a safe landing ...
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  • Darkness
    CreativityPoetry

    Darkness

    By Ivor Steven
    February 19, 2024
    Beyond the dark Where there is no light The days and nights Are frightfully stark  Where the mind is blind To the buried inner plights And void of any ...
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  • The Twilight Moon
    Rhyming PoemsPoetry

    The Moon’s Hallelujah Sound

    By Ivor Steven
    February 5, 2024
    I stand within the Twilight ZoneBetween pitch black and home Here in no man’s landListening to the Last Post from the bandstand I am ...
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  • Cosmic Sundial
    Poetry

    Destiny And Shame Await

    By Ivor Steven
    January 22, 2024
    The universe is timeless  And the forces of nature Do not hear The Cosmic Sundial  The stars are limitless Nature’s Kingdom Shall remain animated  Our planet is blameless  We are ...
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  • sun at the horizon with vegetation below and sky above.
    EnvironmentCreativityPoetry

    The Unreachable Horizon

    By Ivor Steven
    January 8, 2024
    I walk hypnotically In slow motion Toward the unreachable horizon Lured by a shimmering mirage Lying between the wavering sky And the quivering ground  The datum points  Where sunset plunges ...
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