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Tag Archives: poetry
ful-fill
calling, calling I have heard the whispers too long deaf to their demands they shift their form to rustling of the grass through my fingertips crunching of broken leaves under my steps and I remember I’ve missed listening truths they … Continue reading
Ode: Collective Heritage
I’ve always grown up thinking of my home city as this little town in the middle of the prairies. Our population of one million people seemed so small compared to the busy cities all over the world. I remember looking … Continue reading
release
she Worked through it all stabbed her Anger wept her Fears Reasoned with her options and at the end of a long cool night Brave enough to peel back the layers of Regret and Shame she finally gets to the … Continue reading
listening
it is not because they tower above the horizon reaching their boughs to the sky bristling in the breeze seeing what the falcon sees it is not because they plunge into the earth funnelling through rich debris of life tasting … Continue reading
shades
color coding emails alphabetizing spices filing bills feeds illusions that I can outline carve out my flaws but what if the worst of me held a trace of my most sacred grace and the best of me carried a tint … Continue reading
untitled
One thin sliver of green fluttering in the wind barely whispering But when all the leaves chorus together A joyous storm results
pause
forever waxing and waning does the moon dream of a night where she can pause like the moment between exhale and inhale neither preparing nor recovering better than neutral to be a constant
Honor Thy Neighbour
They had no mercy it was just a policy — they said of their government this systematic destruction of your homes, your language your humanity push you to the borders stateless without a hope Canada will take you in land … Continue reading
freedom
he shuffles through the halls english books clutched to his chest head down, slightest of smiles afraid to be asked should he not understand and even if so afraid his accent would render the answer useless but today would be … Continue reading
Planting Season
meetings multi-tasking and deadlines a knock on the door _____ every twenty minutes each task generating _____ six more urgent phone calls crisis and decisions trying to be human in it all efficient, effective compassion . . . take a … Continue reading