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Author: Ivor Steven

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  • The image shows a bird flying between bare branches
    Poetry

    And the Birds Warbled

    By Ivor Steven
    June 10, 2024
    I stepped into the fringe of winterwhere ancient deciduous treeslooked prosaic and timewornwithout their tessellated leaves however, between the bare boughsthe birds continued to ...
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  • The image shows dark grey clouds above the distant trees
    Poetry

    Confused

    By Ivor Steven
    May 27, 2024
    Confused after a restless night I could not see daylight The iron sky was a blanket of dark, wavy clouds Dawn was anchored,  impatient and submergedout of sight  ...
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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
    PoetryCreativity

    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
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    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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