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Ottawa Tulip Festival

Dow's Lake boasts a scenic park
with tulips by the hundred thousands
they bloom for all in springtime jubilee
that marks the launch of playful seasons



AP: 2nd place 2025

Categories: ottawa, flower, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse

The last letter by James Ottawa


The last letter by James Ottawa



Journal Entry

4005



December 

28th

1986



In this crazy long night

Like all the many others



Before I lost my beloved child's mother

In 75'



Whenever God shines his white light

Through the Moon



To my tiny window in Tupelo, Mississippi



I hear him 

Whispering this to me



Have I told you lately

My poor child

While you're still alive



Soon you'll bring it all

Categories: ottawa, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Rain - Ottawa Valley

lightning and action
 
      rain ripping up the valley

       thunderous      a pause

Categories: ottawa, storm,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pulse - Repost - Love Poem For Ottawa

In the middle
In the midst 
Of this bureaucratic 
Heart
Pumping
Paper
Ideas
The pulse
Of this great nation
In the middle
In the midst
Of me

 Circa 2005


Ottawa born and raised. I was a bicycle courier here for twenty years, developing a very special affinity for my city, my community, and my country.

Categories: ottawa, love, passion, work,
Form: Verse

Spring's Victory

Blue butterflies dancing with me,
Old stars come down to kiss the earth,
The happy birds are flying free,
A time for perfume, endless mirth
New silver bells ring… Victory!
Snowdrops announce the new Spring birth.
Cherry blossom rise in splendor,
As the winter slow surrender!

Categories: ottawa, happy, spring,
Form: Ottava rima

August 6th 2020 In Ottawa

for Hiroshima
    The Peace Tower tolls today

            ears ring eternal




***

Categories: ottawa, remember, war,
Form: Haiku

Legend of Ottawa

Ottawa is derived from the Algonquin word adware,
meaning "to trade" when the indigeous people;
used the rivers in the area to fish, hunt and camp,
they portaged rivers known now as the Ottawa and Rideau; 
but called these waterways "the great river and the grand river".

The city of Ottawa, originally called Bytown because it was,
founded by Colonel

Categories: ottawa, history,
Form: Narrative

My Ottawa Sweetie

My Big "O" Sweetie is always there for me
Don't know that I deserve her, but I'm down on one knee
Thank you, dear Mo
My love has growed
To the point, ye ol' sun don't shine till I see it is thee!

Categories: ottawa, friend,
Form: Limerick

Ottawa Dreams

far far away
where skies are always grey
but hearts glad
hellos are common
warming wintry mornings of purest white.

this fairytale land
where snowflakes litter pretty dreams
and days are short but happy.

I now return to a land of sunshine and more sunshine
casting aside winter's cold
for cotton shirts and flip-flops
where humid nights greet tepid dawns
clutching a pocketful of snow dreams
and songs

Categories: ottawa, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Ottawa Beach

Seagulls soar
on a whispering west wind.
Waves flow
onto shoreline of white warm sand
and sandcastles grace the beach.

The sun looks down on its worshipers
from a billowing sky of blue and white.
A butterfly lands
on a wooden chair
and children laugh.

Noisy jet skis
powered by gas and testosterone
cleave the pristine sea,
while sailboats lazily drift
like swans on a rural pond.

On a midsummer

Categories: ottawa, nostalgia, seasons
Form: Free verse

Ottawa Treaty

Infestation of
Anti-personnel land mines
Rwanda declared free


On 2 December 2009, Rwanda became the first country to be declared free of landmines.




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Categories: ottawa, angst, death, history, hope,
Form: Senryu