Long Manitoba Poems

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to 
beware the...

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Orphaned footsteps round the old place.
Pitch black soil, packed deep with bartered
coin and Indian heads – wood and otherwise,

coat her worn leather shoes, Hutterite chic. 
The long land screams within its own silence.
Prairie sage burns...

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They were both afraid and madly in love, but neither he nor she would say goodbye. They fought back the tears for the longest time before each of them 

began to cry. They met in...

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MUSIC  TO   DRIVE    BY

Manitoba.  Dashboard music.  The west ahead.
At last the sun is gone  - relax my eyes.
Kinda   half-dozing,  eyelids  of lead.
Now...

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Rock music from Canada is as awesome as rock music from the United States. It's like a music festival just outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It seems that the Canadian rock stars have outdone themselves,...

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The trees, big or small, high or low,
Are the nicest things in the world,
They wouldn’t hurt a fly, a sparrow,
They host all the birds, blue or white
Summer or winter, in the mountains or plains,

They’re the...

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We’ve taken this rode to Manitoba
And seen the beauty and felt the cold.
Seen lakes to the East and West,
And now I am feeling old.

Seen a bear in riding mountain park,
But now it is time for...

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In Canada, the First Indigenous Communities sadly watched as the ground 
penetrating high-tech equipment searched and found the unmarked graves
of residential school children. These children were taken from their homes
by force, beaten, raped, and killed,...

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Eh? woke up
this Thursday morning
with my finances
shaking the walls

some nice hoser lady
had given me a call

and left a message
right on my phone

she talked
also, very nice and slow
it was all so very proper
Don't Cha, know

she called
and,
mixed...

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CANADA




Big land filled with French and Scots  
And then English and Chinese
Empty except for buffalo and  snow
Flat and cold except for August in Manitoba
When it is flat and hot
And the roads go on...

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People ask me all the time; do you miss where you used to live?
In ways I do
I miss my friends, my family, and the music all around downtown Halifax
I miss going to the cute little...

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WINNIPEG   FROM   30 000   FEET


Flight over the Lakes  -  turbulent altogether:
Wingtips  alarmingly  shaken like sticks.
In  the  Manitoba prairie’s settled  weather
Pilot finds his...

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Vast Nebraska sky, 
sienna-hued droplets 
meld together 
forming dusk’s tapestry.
Towering meadow blades -
cool as creamsicles,
stroke my weary head and
tickle my naked frame.

Soothing northwest breezes
leaving Manitoba, 
slither through
a nebula of stars - 
gathering miniscule
buttercup petals. 
I...

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