Long Vancouver Poems

I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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UNCLE ELDON 


Now that I am old,  I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....

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Beneath a misty veil of ‘Euphoria’ by Calvin Klein, she dares to dream of acceptance in a world of wanna-be Literary Giants who are members of an elite writer’s group, as she drives along a...

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MY BUCKET LIST

Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to go...

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Grandma 85

She sits across the table 
from the best hand she has ever been dealt 
Her four Aces,  
The greatest joy of her life
Her most favoured and loved children

She has not always been dealt...

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"But when you showed me what happiness looked like, I shook harder, sobbed, wailed and bawled; tore at your clothes, your perfect, perfect face, and said, "This could never be mine."" - the poet.

It seems...

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When I was ten I went to England 
with my mother and younger sister.  
It was the Queen's Silver Jubilee. For Monarchists, 
you’ll know what a lot of fanfare goes on.  
There were...

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When I was ten I went to England with my mother and younger sister.  It was the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. For 
Monarchists, you’ll know what a lot of fanfare goes on.  There were...

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My new husband was a farm boy
who didn't like to roam.
It always took a lot of nagging
to get him to leave home.
But we were newly married,
I hadn't learned all of his dislikes.
I imagined us as...

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Gerrit Verstraete released his first book of selected poems titled “Mid-Seventies Crisis,” in 
1980 ( Admiral Press, Canada ). “But,” he says, “it’s never too late. It’s not that I stopped 
writing, I just didn’t...

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Flames are now ashes 
Stars earn their passes 
On a second round
Enjoying the mountainous town 
Being at their peak 
Everyone listening to the words they speak 
Forgetting who said ‘I do’ 
Arrived for another gig...

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Stars are at their peak 
Giving each other pecks on the cheek 
Telling friends watching in fantasy land what they speak 
How wonderful it is 
Being in television movie making biz 
Having a Bah calling...

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*Image of Take In North America by Amtrak.
Training Experience: Novice

All onboard, the Pacific Coast-Liner,
it is seventy-seven, my first leave
of a first year's work. A bit sideliner
on board, the conductor took my bag, "We've
an opened dining...

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Stars could see forever 
Thinking never 
An avalanche would pull the lever 
Feeling a mile high 
This movie was going to be a nice try 
Not caring about anyone’s lie 
Then there was the heated...

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Of all the great vacations I've been on-
     the ones abroad and those on land and sea,
the place to which my thoughts are always drawn,
     'North to...

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Here’s your roaming reporter, the Average Joe,
Always reporting, always on the go.
I’m reporting today on the impending battle,
As state troops amass in the city of Seattle.

Much to the surprise of our neighbors up North,
The state...

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One hundred years ago, or so,
The train that hauled logs 
From Baw-Faw Peak to Glenoma, 
Ran right through the center
Of the place we now live.

The rails are long gone now,
Lost to the ravages of time,
Though...

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now just silence found hanging from boughs of my mind,
as a tendril seeks aid? from a thought? from a word?
or a prayer that might help some truth come to light,
dreams that fruit in some way...

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They stand tall like a monument, the wayfarer’s journey guide
Rough stones shaped into human form, the meaning to unhide,
Inuits first carefully piled these stones, the meaning becomes clear,
Traditionally “you are on the right path” or...

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Vancouver's a private reference and it's not really about Canada as a whole, just one
experience regarding the aforementioned. Shh!

Schwein Fleisch vs schweinefleisch. As two distinct words it literally means "pig skin" as
one word it means...

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The Little White Church

The little white church, engulfed by the immensity
Of Douglas fir, Hemlock, and Western Red Cedar
On Nootka Island in Nootka Sound,
Confirms the remoteness of the Yuquot Village:
On the west coast of Vancouver Island.

The...

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To you who hides your face,
Sitting on cardboard
Asking for change, with your cardboard sign
Is it change you want? Or coins?

I am frustrated by your lack of motion-
Sometimes there is the puppy eye,
The sleeping angel,
The cardboard...

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Seeing the flower on the bench 
Mrs. Knight love was tighten using the rose as a wrench 
Her beloved knight who sent Vancouver filmmakers packing 
Shooting scenes of Avalanches attacking 
Safety coming first 
Without making...

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Erect stands the totem poles carved from Western Red Cedar trees
Telling tales of gods and warriors buried by the river as it flows to the seas
Marking the boundaries of these sacred grounds where our native...

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Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who pledges loyalty
to put Bahama land from the time
she was conceived out of the womb


Miss Bahamian Culture
a woman who sheds the blood
of gold, black and aquamarine
straight from her veins
as she wakes...

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