I wrote this interesting poem back in November 2018, and my words from four years ago seem to be still very pertinent to the war situation in the Ukraine at the moment …
“I’ve been listening to The Waterboys songs lately, their lyrics are meaningful and their music is always dramatic. In this following piece of mine I’ve used 18 of their song Titles as the foundation for my poem. To other Waterboys fans who read this post, I hope my words have done “The Waterboys” the justice they deserve, by all their glorious songs.”

The Dark Streets
The combined Trumpets of the world are sounding
Being carried on today’s Lonesome Old Wind
Resonating loudly for The Stolen Child
And Choirs are singing The Faery’s Last Song
Where did their promise go, and there’s no Sweet Thing in sight
Will the children get to view The Whole Of The Moon again
When will they ever cry out, “This Is The Sea”
Searching for their parents, crying “Where Are You Now When I Need You”
Children crawling Down Through The Dark Streets
Cowering under black clouds and Purple Rain
In A Pagan Place, created by governments
Shamefully they have Let It Happen
Our leaders need a wake-up call And A Bang On The Ear
When will they tell us “The Healing Has Begun”
We Will Not Be Lovers anymore, until
They declare to the last refugee girl, “She Is So Beautiful”
Let us hope the children suffer no Red Army Blues
And need not worry about being Too Close To Heaven
Ivor Steven (c) August 2018
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
The war in Ukraine, child trafficking, school massacres-this poem covers all of the tragedies we are facing. I really enjoyed this. I don’t know who the band is, but I would say you served them well.
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Thank you Val … we are sadly very slow learners, or we have badly lost our sense of decency ..
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Your poem of yesterday is still one of today as well. Seems the world never learns!
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Yes .. we are definitely slow learners Dwight ☮️🌏
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Nicely done – sadly
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Thank you Derrick
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Well done, Ivor! Will we ever learn!?
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It’s seem we will ever learn
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How timely this poignant poem still is today, Ivor! ❤ Sad that humanity seems always to repeat our mistakes.
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Thank you Cheryl .. hopefully we’ll witness times soon , during the rest of our stay here 🌏🤗
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