Featured Artwork Above: by my niece Kerri Costello (Philladelphia)

This week I am celebrating the 5th Anniversary of my WordPress blog/website, and back in 2017, “Artic Winds” was one of earliest poems that I posted on my site, and which I later submitted to ‘Vita Brevis Press’ and was subsequently Published by in 2018



Arctic Winds

I am winter hibernating

Inside an Eskimo’s hut

Feeding only on fish oil

And frozen blue blood

My heart’s cold and dormant

Cowering under a dampened vestment

Pumping only yesteryear’s rust

And icicles of my dust

My eyes are swollen rocks

A midst polarized sockets

Terrorizing all that’s passed

Like forgotten arctic icebergs

My veins are hollow crevasses

Inside a glaciers ice-flow

Sheering and groaning chasms

Like my memories sharpest spasms

Ivor Steven (c) August 2017

G’day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I’m an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I’ve been blogging for over 4 years, and writing poems for 20 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I’ve been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems. View all posts by ivor20