Long Saskatchewan 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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I love my mom 
with unabashed cliche,
                    when we hug, when we 
   ...

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do you remember this place by the ocean?
these coastal mornings with their Arena air
the wind from the crab dock almost strong enough 
to be swept away,
running from growling raccoons
randomly reading names on boats-

The way I...

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TIDES   OF   TIDINESS   

If  I was God,  the geographic world I would bless:
I’d start by tidying  up my world map for it’s a mess.
First let’s examine...

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TOTAL   ECLIPSE   OF   THE   SUN    
 

We watched horrified, awe-struck for hours while the sun died
Slowly, shorn of long golden locks, suffocated by the...

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Up here in Canada we have our own words
Everywhere does, some think ours are absurd
Between toques, hosers and rhyming currency
Like loonies and toonies, we do speak uniquely
But narrow it down to one province specific
Our Saskatchewan...

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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 family as I flew
To Saskatoon Saskatchewan 
Thinking I would be...

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Streams are running quickly and the snow’s still on the ground
When lightning strikes the mountains and there’s thunder all around.
It’s raining in the foothills and the water’s coming down.
It’s headed for the city, to the...

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From the Black Hills to the prairies,
he sighed as his eyes turned hard & dark
That was the path of the Buffalo,
His finger traced a wide & sweeping arc
You could tell he longed to be out...

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INDIAN    HEAD,    SASKATCHEWAN

Used to live in Indian Head   -  never heard of  it  ?
An island of trees on the treeless prairie railway;
Unchanging oasis in...

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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,  and
The air is bracing and always new-washed-glass clean ...

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SEASONAL    PLACES


Spring is found in the Lowland valleys with gowan-filled braes of Scotland
When the early-reaching flowers bloom in cool freshness,  and
The air is bracing and always new-washed-glass clean  -
With 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 heard reports of below freezing point
at Regina in Saskatchewan,
I look...

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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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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 land settles down to rest

Our prairie full of havest gold

Truly...

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INCIDENT   ON   HIGHWAY  12,  SASKATCHEWAN   1977


Black ice early morning
I heard no radio warning
Truck coming east at sixty 
Me heading west at seventy.

Closing at two hundred feet
Every second...

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This is the song Ann Murray sings called "A Little Good News".  I just changed the words to insult her.  No disrespect Ann.  Trevor

Somebody from Saskatchewan
said the News is on today
Somebody who...

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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 of grass and wheat.
			Your silent silos stand tall and straight
			And...

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A Lily is one of nature’s most special gifts
I’d pick them in ones, twos, thirds, fourths, and fifths
The exotic scent, arousing my nerves
Such a figure with the most desired curves

A Lily is mysterious
The colors drive...

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If you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes
Why live in the prairies? We have our reasons
At -50 you might say we hit our limits
Few places in one day, do you see all 4 seasons

Why...

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Dancing Waters
They drop like leaves
They cut themselves like Branches
They transfer their heart to their back
They paint themselves in red

The guns and boots are resurrected
They tattoo the ground with their footprints
They create a black cloud in...

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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 Saskatchewan
the huddles of family 
I’d never met 
softly recounting your...

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To Saskatchewan prairies,
now doomed to snow cover,
the freshly cut harvest
settling with dew, 
and frost,
the remnants of sacrifice,
and I too partake, in the breaking
of bread-
all at due cost, 
for here my life is at stake, and...

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Off to Toronto our team did go
Prepared for the game of a lifetime,a real show
Our province went absolutely wild
Our fever ran high and that is putting it mild

The game was more than great
Winning the game...

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