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Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom)

Canada, daily poem, Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje, b.1943, Canada. Speaking to youthis hourthese days whenI have lost the feather of poetryand the rainsof separationsurround us tocktock like Go tablets …

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The Cremation of Sam McGee

Canada, daily poem, Robert William Service

Note from web author: One of the best things about retiring my small physical poem board (on the side of our road back in August) …

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Come, Rest Awhile

Canada, daily poem, Lucy Maud Montgomery

by Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874-1942, Prince Edward Island. Come, rest awhile, and let us idly strayIn glimmering valleys, cool and far away. Come from the …

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Rivers of Canada

Bliss Carman, Canada

By Bliss Carman, 1861-1929, New Brunswick. O all the little rivers that run to Hudson’s Bay,They call me and call me to follow them away.Missinaibi, …

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All She Wanted

Atticus, Canada, daily poem

By Atticus, Canadian poet.

For Menlo

Skryos Bruce/Mahara Allbrett

By Skyros Bruce/Mahara Allbrett, b.1950, Sleil Waututh (Burrard Inlet, B.C.) that day i told youthat the scarson my wrist were fromwhen i was a birdthat …

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The Uniform of the Dispossessed

Canada, Emma LaRocque, Metis

By Emma LaRocque, b.1949, Métis/Canada. Sometimes I forgetso I buy soft thingssurround my hard-won worldwith syntheticspastelscushionsand Zamfir. Sometimes I forgetso I go to theatresurround my …

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Portrait of the Poet As Landscape

A.M. Klein, Canada, Ukraine

By A.M. Klein, 1909–1972, Ukraine/Quebec. INot an editorial-writer, bereaved with bartlett,mourns him, the shelved Lycidas.No actress squeezes a glycerine tear for him.The radio broadcast lets …

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Joan Crate reads I am a Prophet from Pale as Real Ladies: Poems for Pauline Johnson

Canada, daily poem, Joan Crate, Metis

By Joan Crate, Metis/Canada, uploaded by Brick Books Feb 19, 2013.

Marita, Please Find Me, I am Almost 30

Canada, Leonard Cohen

By Leonard Cohen MaritaPlease find meI am almost 30 This is my voicebut I am only whisperingThe amazing vulgarityof your styleinvites men to thinkof torturing …

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