I Walk - (re Poplar Hill, northwestern Ontario)
I walkand hear within each stepa thousand sounds,a thousand years of warring drumssilenced in the stillness of this northern night.Wind sleeps in trees,anddarkness fills every angleof the ebon...
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Welcome, Rich! Well chosen words indeed do, paint the images and legends of a culture so in tune with nature. Wonderful that you were able to experience and learn from this village of First Nations...
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Quote:Above me dreams explodein magnetic sheets,combining legendand song --you must listen with your eyes.I listenand hear a tuneless tune,careful not to whistle(for, the natives tell me,a whistle...
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Hi Rich!I am so thrilled to see this beauty here...the lure of the northern lights enhanced by yourflowing thoughts.So many glorious phrases... the "vast void of heaving time"...what an awesome...
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Wanda,Thank you for your encouraging comments. What a lovely site. My compliments. I must thank Laryalee, one of the greatest Canadian poets I know, for bringing me here. Yes, we must learn to listen...
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Great to see you here, Rich. You surprised me. I was so accustomed to seeing your precise metrical rhyming poetry that this free-verse was a suprise. I like it, though. Very beautiful. I have also...
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Peter,Thank you. Yes, I have ventured into free verse now and then - haven't quite found my voice in it yet, but I enjoy the challenge it presents.That a whistle should affect the sky is poetic in...
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Rich:What a pleasure to see you posting here! I've just done so as well. This is a splendid descriptive lyric poem, and the use of paradox and oxymoron is especially memorable ... tuneless tune,...
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Brenda,A real pleasure to see you here as well! Thanks for your keen observations on this poem. If the north doesn't inspire a soul, nothing will. Yes, it seems it was a turning-point in my life - an...
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