Best Calgary Poems

Dear First World, Salute to you
Accept humble bow, from the Third World.
Thank you for the great lectures for fu***ing idiots.
Heads hung low, wide-eyed,
we clapped.

You sold us your notion of humanity,
we lived in a barbaric world.
You bombed to end the atrocities.
The boisterous sound of your missiles...

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The end of September and they got snow in Calgary
Hang on, thought Calgary was Utopia starting with a “C”
All you easterners
Or should I say, nerds
Those who thought it was utopia were rudely mistaken, SEE!...

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If I could choose a moment,
To be my eternity,
It would be that one,
Sitting above the Bow River,
On that high Banff perch,
Above the Rocky Mountains.

And your head on my shoulder,
A gentle weight, a whisper of trust,
Underneath the vast, open sky,
Where time slowed to a tranquil crawl,
And...

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On the edge of Bow Valley River,
Where waterfall pours on stones,
I stand, a witness to nature’s symphony,
As the world unfolds before me.

On the other side of the river,
Where solitude finds its home,
The meadowlark sings its first song,
Bursting forth from the rocky mountains.

The mountain stands, still...

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