Best Saskatchewan Poems

north by northen

they live in villages of 8 to 10 people, 
 dont pay rent and make art out of multi 
colored buttons and old...

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Land of the living skies

Where the Saskatchewan  prairie lies

Skies painted with every hue

Pinks, purples and shades of blue

The sun slowly sinks in the west

The...

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SASKATCHEWAN  SUMMER  EVENING



Porch light spreads weakly out
Into the field and dissipates
In the buzz of grasshoppers.
Starlight and fireflies; crickets chirp.
Hot air shimmers the lights...

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LET HIM GO, SASKATCHEWAN

			Let him go, Saskatchewan,
			Send his spirit home to us
			You have little use for his smile and wit
			For you have endless horizons
			And waves...

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SASKATCHEWAN   SPRING   MORNING



Dawns another early spring day:
Garden is frozen on stillness’ edge,
Door crackles open as ice strips away,
White lawn,  white...

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Those big rolling plains,
                    as if...

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TOTAL   ECLIPSE   OF   THE   SUN    
 

We watched horrified, awe-struck for hours while the...

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I hear that it’s raining in Washington State,
In London there's snow coming down
as I look out across a wide dusty plain,
where everything’s pastel or brown.

I...

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TIME   AND   PLACE


Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland
When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness,...

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Dominik, I want you to 
Understand why your mom
Feels so light and free. 
I believe I have flown
Through life.

I remember flying from
The sheltered wings
Of my...

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The  harvest has been in full swing
Swathers finishing the last of the standing crops
Combines blowing dust out the back
Grain dust fills the prairie landscape
The...

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Louis Riel



My fourth cousin removed his name is Louis Riel
Was a visionary fiery leader but had met up with turmoil
Some of his kin were proud...

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OK,   IT’S   FLAT

To say Saskatchewan is  flat 
Is like saying a woman is fat :
A  superficial judgement 
Which denies...

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TIDES   OF   TIDINESS   

If  I was God,  the geographic world I would bless:
I’d start by tidying ...

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That summer your dad died 
and we brought your mom
to stay a few weeks 
‘til she moved to the nursing home 

we drove east to...

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