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Epitaph
| daily poem, Merrit Malloy, U.S.
By Merritt Malloy. When I dieGive what’s left of me awayTo childrenAnd old men that wait to die. And if you need to cry,Cry for …
Read Poem 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 …
Read Poem 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) …
Read Poem 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 …
Read Poem 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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