Whatever you need you scrounge
No ready cash on this Alaskan island
Barter or snoop around.
Share and share
Trade and trade.
Discover old motors
Scrap metal
Jars of screws, nails
Eye bolts and chain.
Heavy rope.
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Rienzi Crusz. An appreciation. Save Me...
- April 26, 2024
I would meet Rienzi at the mall or the grocery store or the neighborhood St. Agnes church with the lovely bells. He always had time. Blinked and smiled. Received some of my poems in... – by dougb.72572 | 11 Views added 5 hours ago
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Creepy passageway.
Worst part of trip.
October sombre mood
Moon peeking from cloud.
Leaves rustle complaint.
Reminds me of Ichabod.
Schoolmaster on loan.
After jolly banqueting.
Sleepy Hollow.
Chased by maniacal
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I’ll tell ye boys
Storm up dere is a howling.
Your next shift on deck
Forty five minutes.
Terrified huh?
Well listen will ye
To that Jonah account.
God’s prophet.
Go to villainous Ninevah.
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There are markings
Of a ferret chasing
A lunch or a torrid lover
To consummation.
Blue Jay draws
Snow angels
Wrestling with smaller
Ornithology.
For a choice nut.
Whining through pines
Just like queer musical score.
But the fragrance
... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 10 hours ago
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73rd birthday this month.
Grandpa times two.
Sexy magenta walking cane.
Don't hardly need that.
But commands respect
Maybe some fear.
Could swing it.
Bruise a leg
Or haunch.
Generally I find respect
And doors opened
And generous... – by dougb.72572 | 6 Views added 11 hours ago
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Vicious little creeper
Ever on the move
Somewhat white for
Winter of remote Kamchatka.
Staying clear of
Lynx wolverine eagle
Piercing winds crystalline
Gigantic tigers
Brutal men
Who trade pelts.
Skinny an burrowing.
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Your eyes are elsewhere.
Sighing.
Watch checking.
And I have not seen
You for months, dear Friend.
Wish it to end?
Your list to-do
Shows out of your purse.
Your rudeness is worse.
EXCUSE ME FOR LIVING
IN YOUR FACE!
Having no such... – by dougb.72572 | 5 Views added 14 hours ago
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They took all savings
Mother came out of hiding
Daughter left seamstress grind
Had a charming candy shop in mind.
En passing I twigged
To a new sign
Decorated window
Glimpses of savoureuses
Mouth watering.
Over the weeks I
Was their... – by dougb.72572 | 5 Views added 14 hours ago
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Long stretches horizontal
Hospital prone and peaceful.
Nurses all sweet
And quick to the buzzer.
Seeming tireless
For 12 hour stretch.
Came 911, messed
Up in the head
Zero core strength.
Stinging blasted
Left foot all swollen
Shiny... – by dougb.72572 | 7 Views added 14 hours ago
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Nam vet he was
Death faced often.
Jungles of the
Strange East.
Done for his country
Seeds of new democracy.
Load of crap that was.
Back small Milltown
Dad's factory
Paid some bills.
But loans were ruination
For Rodney.
Horses.
... – by dougb.72572 | 12 Views added 1 day ago
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Gramps left the town
The folks of years
The job
The routine.
Made himself the Cabin.
After tenting for
Two spring months.
Befriended the seasons’ rush
The morning sounds
The little projects.
His son, my Papa
... – by dougb.72572 | 9 Views added 1 day ago
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He is huge!
My unit on tripod
Long hike
To get here from the van.
No fixed plan.
See what today brings.
Wildflowers
Hawks above.
Beautiful things.
But that bison
On the ridge
Takes the cake.
Documentary make.
... – by dougb.72572 | 3 Views added 1 day ago
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Could you give
Just a moment
Something here to
Share with you.
Been troubling me
This past week
And I scarce know
What to do.
Oh I know you
Are quite busy
Checking time
And Sighing.
But I thought friends
Had a moment
To relieve... – by dougb.72572 | 0 Views added 2 days ago
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This a grand bright partnership
As the waving clover grows
And my little friends all busy
Gathering swiftly, Heaven knows.
And I slowly pace the hives
Measured help all dressed in mesh
Knowing Beulah Land's rich treasure
Gleams within those... – by dougb.72572 | 3 Views added 2 days ago
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She coos
With that vacant look
Infants sport.
Oblivious except for
The sense of welfare
In parents' Aroma
And chuckles.
As if remembering
Another world of
Nine months
Of juices, lullabies
Heartbeat.
The... – by dougb.72572 | 5 Views added 3 days ago
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I left the island
Not knowing whither
In my flimsy outrigger.
Stored behind some palms.
Little bare children
Snickered at my efforts
To drag and launch.
Elders shook their heads
Calling me fool.
No one left our island
And came back.
Curse... – by dougb.72572 | 3 Views added 3 days ago
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Call came in
Waterloo north dispatch
Pickup flipped over
In some fashion.
We'll have to see.
Freeway underpass
South of Conestogo Mall.
Arrived to see
Young woman
Peeking in driver window
Trying to provide
Assurances
To one only
Half... – by dougb.72572 | 1 View added 3 days ago
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After the festive autumn dance
And sumptuous banquet.
Just make it by horse.
Through the leaf strewn
Path to the Bridge.
Then risk passes.
The whip poor will
And nighthawk
Again sound benign
If not beautiful.
But what do we hear
Out... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 4 days ago
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Boat brought two men
Previous shift
Had tuckered out.
And too many nightmares
Evoked by howling Ocean.
Old guy with pipe
Much experience.
Young Buck, the muscle
For endless aching
Joe Jobs
Up and down the Lighthouse.
It's moaning... – by dougb.72572 | 1 View added 4 days ago
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Barely audible
As township winds
Circuit the colour in the trees.
We thank thee
All our God
With heart and hands
And voices.
Who wondrous things
Hath wrought
In whom this world
Rejoices.
Who from our... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 4 days ago
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Always mumbling
Always the Limey
Roughness.
Kicking.
Head butting.
Wrist breaking.
Smashing faces
Into window pane
Or oven burner.
Ouch.
Yeah ouch again.
He transports.
Snatches.
Tends some bees.
Companions Stallone
In missions... – by dougb.72572 | 0 Views added 4 days ago
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Is it enough that
I showed up for
This dumb event.
Unrelated to any calendar season.
Just a reunion of classmates
Not seen for over
Twenty years.
We struggle to remember
The fun we had
Being rascals in between
Tests and essays.
There is... – by dougb.72572 | 0 Views added 4 days ago
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The building of a church may become an idol, replacing the imperative to worship and adore Jesus. Thus the healthy focus shifts away from the Via Dolorosa, the Blood And the exultant Empty Tomb. The process is so subtle and urged on by glassy eyed... – by dougb.72572 | 0 Views added 4 days ago
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Women rule the day
Midst all that strange laughter.
lead female enjoys
2 young girls, and
Younger will have
Paramountcy.
Entire packs knows of it.
Gives special observing.
Obeying.
Honoring in
So many little ways.
The Valley
Protects
... – by dougb.72572 | 5 Views added 4 days ago
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as my sand runs out
I'm living to the full
I gather all the good times up
I strive and push and pull.
I like the pace, oh yes I do
And many call me blessed
It's like a nose and grindstone thing
I seldom get to rest.
... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 4 days ago
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Lotsa sleep happening
Being restored
After serious diabetes issues.
Books to read
Netflix to watch.
Best one definitely
Port Protection
On Disney
Small subsistence
Island village
Rugged Alaska.
And Bedside radio
FM 100.1 the Ranch
... – by dougb.72572 | 4 Views added 4 days ago
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Seventh day.
At my daughter's place
Serious foot infection
Diabetes related.
In hospital told
Could have lost Part
Of the limb.
Sheesh.
Also callous issues.
Had to be scraped.
Now rested on
This sunny Monday
In Listowel.
Spring... – by dougd.72572 | 2 Views added 4 days ago
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It was a real shocker
Thought you should know
Marjorie messed up bad.
Let her wits go.
Dressed like a harlot
Thought it was vamp.
So much unlike her.
Now just a tramp.
See here's a snapshot.
Ass way too tight
Cleavage a scandal
Changes a... – by dougb.72572 | 2 Views added 5 days ago
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Gestating for CGA.
He would be attending
The Big Night.
Got a couple of invitations.
The Group had once been
So productive, attractive.
Second and third years
University Maths and Sciences.
Queens University, Kingston.
He was single. Age... – by Douglas Blair | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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At the latter part of workday.
Sun lowering.
A mosquito finds his way
Into the office of a Foot Doctor:
Hi Doctor, how’s things?
Mind if I stretch out
On your sofa. Oh, watch the wings.
Aahhh that’s better.
Doc I think I am in a terrible... – by Douglas Blair | 18 Views added 1 year ago
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The place spins round
And sun looks down
And moon will calm the weary.
Some battles rage
And work’s slim wage
And grief assaults the teary.
But all is mine
And comes the time
When Grace brings rest to waiting.
They know for sure
Christ... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Every Wednesday morning
She is bundled up
Leaning on her walker
Waiting for the transport bus
To the Seniors’ Centre.
I will stop to chat
With this queen of neighbours.
Widowed. Eighty perhaps.
Braving the elements
To shop for a few items.... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Billy Collins, US
Poet Laureate when the
Twin Towers came down
As if by design.
And others burned.
Flight Fell out of the sky.
Pentagon prevaricated.
Did that match up?
Visions of poor souls
Leaping into oblivion
Without options.
... – by Douglas Blair | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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Pride of the fleet.
Rule Britannia.
Lion in the North Atlantic.
North Sea.
Happily manned
Young sailors.
Protecting mercantile
Convoys.
Watching out for
Subs of the Hun.
Soaking wet, slippery
Hyenas of aggression.
The Bismark
Ever hear... – by Douglas Blair | 17 Views added 1 year ago
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This would be the full
Day’s excursion.
Tuesday, July, beautiful sun.
Peeking shyly through
The fragrant cedars
To our hiking group.
Packed with supper foods
For campfire meal
Mid-afternoon.
Discordant banter en route.
Up the... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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It would be about
Second week in June.
Her windows open for
As much breeze as
Could be gathered.
I always managed to
Open Grandad’s living
Room window opposite.
He didn’t want her to notice.
Cream curtains drawn
Three-quarters.
He was... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Dad was away on a sales trip
Dominion Rubber and tires.
Mom was filling in for both roles.
Often she did this.
And very well.
Something had led to a small
Argument.
Ten year old boy thought
He had some leverage.
To get a wee treat.
A... – by Douglas Blair | 21 Views added 1 year ago
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Forgetfulness
BY BILLY COLLINS
The name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of,
as... – by Douglas Blair | 23 Views added 1 year ago
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Unifying the Sheep (a blog)
http://pastursgreen3.blogspot.com/
Toward Unity in the Flock of Christ
Monday Morning Surprise (at factory)
- February 04, 2023
I wonder at sun-up
Will this be the day?
A new friend met.
A... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Can I let it go?
The easy exchanges
Your adoring eyes
The jokes that
Didn’t seem
Funny to others.
Picnics.
Beach walks.
Rainy retreats
On the porch.
Music nights at Home.
Concerts and connections.
Introducing you
To some who could not
... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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“How God anointed
Jesus of Nazareth…”
And then followed that
Wonderful opportunity
Expressed by Peter
In the house of Cornelius.
A capability showered upon
Son of God.
To bless, heal, explain, comfort, deliver.
To stomp out the
Works of... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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There is no such concept
As moving over to make room
In the Trinity.
Things are wide open
And welcoming
And warm with the harmony
Of Heaven.
That time flask of sand
Running out…
That’s a fear without occasion
In presence of Father, Son and... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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There was never any price tag
To our walks.
Problems laid out in candour
Lots of listening.
You would see to that.
Look me straight in the eyes.
Straight.
And a half grin
Suggesting that when you did
Speak, it would not be genius.
But be... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ll tell ye boys
Storm up dere is a howling.
Your next shift on deck
Forty five minutes.
Terrified huh?
Well listen will ye
To that Jonah account.
God’s prophet.
Go to villainous Ninevah.
Preach repentance.
You gotta be kidding Boss.
... – by Douglas Blair | 26 Views added 1 year ago
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Imagine that.
Your welcome and invitation
To shoot the breeze.
You, busy Webmaster
Your willingness to please.
Extended to
A forum’s newbie.
Me.
Lovers of poesie.
Still much not
In the bud.
Sounds with a thud
Or twenty dollar absurd... – by Douglas Blair | 10 Views added 1 year ago
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Last night’s roaring wind
Expended.
And I awake
Late at eight.
Covers kicked off
But not chilled.
Rather thrilled by a
Dream fleeing.
As if almost never there.
My orange-hued Room.
Holds me like a womb.
Dream of a tropical place.
Sand,... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Wore a backwards collar.
Steeped in Greek
Some Hebrew.
Posited big questions.
The Fall in Garden he knew.
The squeeze of Olive Garden.
Sweet Olivet’s repose.
And then arrested
Was Jesus bested?
He knew of frauds’
Sheep’s clothes.
Gerard... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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It is thirty minutes
After Camp’s Supper.
Down to waterfront.
Launching canoe alone.
All day noisy kids.
But not now.
Boating luxurious minutes
Before Campfire.
Slight waving on Bay Waters.
Round the point
To inlet of reveries.
Distant... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Used to run off, Sunday mornings
Study room, alone.
Students sleeping off
Last night’s bender.
Uncomplicated.
Unstructured.
Unbothered.
With pocket Testament
And frequently
Book of poems.
Did not inhabit the churches.
Rather alone and in... – by Douglas Blair | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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I see them
Coming through the grief
And the fear
And the reproach.
Students of a once-promising
Teller of hopeful tales
Host with miracle bread
Mender of broken hearts
But somehow too soft
For this place of push
Leverage and convenient... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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She holds her Concert.
Large crowd quiet
For such a number of seats.
Orchestra will be major help.
The Blonde walks out
To loving applause.
Black blouse and slacks.
Tattoo at the inside wrist.
First song, almost
Sweetly whispered.
You are... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Tangerine tea steaming.
Enjoying one here
Two AM writing on
The Ipad.
First enjoyed this brand.
At a delightful breakfast outing.
Korner Kitchen.
They made it through COVID
FOOLERY.
CRAZY reductions in seating max.
Damned blue masks all... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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I at the one end
He at the other
Trees all around us
Rude noises smothered.
Windbreak for certain
And neither one moving
Feeling a kinship rare
Family here proving
Yes family
In freshness
Hiatus from duty
He regal in... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Jim and I
Were on our trip.
He, well traveled.
I, not so much.
Sea breezes for Jim
Not a biggy.
I dreamt of seeing, smelling
Touching the Big Water.
Well how about the North Sea?
Heading toward Edinburgh.
Map showed a quaint
Little spot.
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Never thought in
Any number of years
That we would face exile.
Babylonians painful pushed.
The big Kingdom was
Heart stopping.
Huge walls.
Terrifying military forces.
And all sumptuous in
The Royal Court.
Soon in eunuchs’
Special... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Go ahead
Lash me to that mast
Hair away from my eyes
Double-check the rope
Canvas all let loose
I want to feel it
Full force
This huge storm
You head below-decks
The whipping
The shrapnel that cuts
The tearing wind
The voices of lust
... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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She talked some about Denmark.
Beautiful islanded Land.
Music, baked goods and
Blue cheese.
Wonderful open-faced sandwiches
Herring or rolled spiced pork.
Personalities like
Hans Christian A. and Jenny Lind
King Christian (50 years... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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They were mostly Mohawk
And Walpole island was
A point of connection.
Close to Sarnia, Wallaceburg.
People in the latter location
Had real problems in attitude
With First Nations.
You know what “those people are like.”
“No I don’t. So tell... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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February and
Ice storms most likely
Persistent wind
Moaning against my bedroom glass.
Well that’s Canada.
Wind off the Atlantic
Piling up massive waves.
Against ancient Rock, Peggy’s Cove.
Wind over the Prairies
Tearing at the Ukrainian
... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Prayers different now
Less of petition upon petition
Thanks upon thanks
Wonder after wonder
Pleas for others’ needs.
Praise adding to praise.
These were all good.
But perhaps too much
Jaw flapping and
Me, me, me.
Obstructing the us, us,... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Mother has gone
Ninety six years.
Bit of COVID scare
And most everything else
Tuckered out.
She had been effervescent.
Helping Dad in
The retail business.
Raising two boys.
Leading women often in
Special events.
Golf and curling club.
... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Legacy
For Anne
"This is all there is and this is everything" - JOYCE CAROL OATES
Take my poems--
I have nothing else of value to give you.
fruits
of lonely nights, faithful candles
that flamed and sputtered until
my metaphors were... – by Douglas Blair | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Bottomless blue in
My True Love’s eyes
June has arrived with
Cocoon’s surprise.
Waves roll in
And my prints are lost.
Grace all sufficient
At Calvary’s cost.
Stars break me down
So un-countable.
Some old-school grief
And lotsa trouble.
... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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We took their Son for an afternoon.
No socials skills had he
But Lego kit, the breadth of it.
A stunning show for free.
The reds his special choice
Offset by gold and blue
Supports for rooftop
Blew our minds, what
Three year olds might do.
... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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You need the final word
A lust of modern sort.
You hardly catch my drift.
The substance of report.
You rush to blurt again
You love your trashy voice.
And once I thought
You were my friend
A stupid, stupid choice.
A joke takes too much... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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There can be revelation
So new they want to shout
It seems to liven Sundays
And blow the cobwebs out.
And someone said Lord speaketh
In new ways to this age.
As if the old lacked vigour
And had to yield the stage.
But Jude holds up a... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Walking to Library on Campus.
Will wander into accounts
Of Scottish Covenantors
Or missionary to India or Kalahari.
Or exposition on one
Of Paul’s Letters (Philippians).
Autumn winds proving
An invigoration.
Then to be heard a trilling.
A... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Have you thought of how
Your presence has aroma.
And you needn’t say
A word or quote a verse.
It’s the Spirit found
Inside who kicks reaction.
For the better or for repulse
In the worst.
Some are searching
For bright changes in their... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Just take one norm
In the science fix
And give it a twist.
In this case
Vision.
Coordinating function
Business, transport
Clean-up, education
Medical helps
Law and order.
Telecommunication.
Instantly and without notice
Blind in traffic,... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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They came from the bowels
Underground
Subway link closed and sourced
In ancient deep watercourse.
Incubating mighty long
And developing into
Monstrous scaled
Proportion.
Breathing fire.
Incinerating everywhere.
Humans or defense
As we... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Isaiah took a chance
For sure.
Looking for beauty.
When all the way
To the horizon
Multiplied messes
Problems and attack.
Yes, this beauty
For ashes.
Ashes…useless for food
For construction
Or warmth.
Grey, listless
Insubstantial.
And... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Prophet went out on a limb.
Promise extraordinary
In the midst of messes.
Yeah, messes Buster.
Beauty for ashes, he said.
Burnt refuse.
No food value.
No building value.
Grey, listless.
Only ground nourishment
And that takes ages.
Oil of... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Parents don’t know gender
Want the marvel intact.
Ruling out the blue
Ruling out the pink.
Clothes last only moments
Anyways.
White furniture of sorts
On the list for sure.
Price a ghastly sum.
That Grandpa can endure.
Toys seem a propos.
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I know this is awkward
Big Walmart lot, busy.
No one will notice.
You with groceries
Half into the trunk.
Tell your Girl to stop crying.
It’s weak and pathetic.
(Seven inch knife gleaming.
Fake lunging movement.)
I know this is costly
... – by Douglas Blair | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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You're going to work now
in the Chair
seven months since the
pile-up on the 400
in heavy snows.
Disability stuff was
your life saver.
Now, it's the office.
you are pretty handy with
those controls.
even in tight places.
as I recall your... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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You look at me
And those nights embraced
Raise their little heads.
Calm, enticing times we had.
So naturally entwined.
So casual in topics enjoyed.
So rich in common thought
Waves.
I start a sentence.
You finish.
You jab me in the rib
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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I have been stewing this morning.
Lost password for Poetry.com entries.
Try again.
Try again to login, har, har.
Sonsabitches.
But finally, and now
I can study entries in January contest.
And perhaps add a
Couple more pieces to my page.
... – by Douglas Blair | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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She has an answer for everything.
Seemingly.
Much accomplished.
Two kids doing well.
Bucket loads of friends.
Paints in oils in her Back Room.
Husband hauling in big CASH.
And here am I praying
For her demolition.
Her belittling and... – by Douglas Blair | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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How many times we rushed to respond
To wicked attacks with lessons from hacks
And touted wive's tales that usually fail
When all the while Jesus is waiting.
Waiting with power and pains He once bore
Risen from graves clothes to suffer... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Is it possible
You might have time
To hear me out
Considering mine?
I know your day
Is plenty wired.
Numbers ask
For you inquire.
Physician bright
With hands so trained
And hours surgery
Your body drained.
We once were friends.
I’ve... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Fishing On The Susquehanna In July
by Billy Collins
Billy Collins
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna
or on any river for that matter
to be perfectly honest.
Not in July or any month
have I had the pleasure -- if it is a pleasure... – by Douglas Blair | 34 Views added 1 year ago
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I have a friend
Who frequents Jesus poems.
All the points addressed
The bloody Roman Road. (cc. 5-10)
And words we groupies use to
Get a wrap on joy, on appreciation.
On remission.
BUT, but…
There will be missing
The boundless imaginings
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Reading Wordsworth’s Rainbow
I see the child limner.
Never to be forgotten.
The wonderment walking wild.
The Lake District
With brother poets.
Windermere we tasted.
And steaming shepherds pie.
Much like our lakes of Muskoka.
The wild... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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It’s Thursday and
The cab shows up on time.
Coat, scarf, gloves
For trip sublime.
A burger shop it is.
Forget insipid fare.
It’s people and contentment
Settled there.
One waitress knows his choice
And speaks with kindly voice.
Hey Harry,... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Just read one by Mary
Respectful, airy
And blessed with a pace
We now don’t see.
In Nature she exults
The quiet calm results
In purposeful visits
Filled with glee.
Around the corner might
A whistling mallard bright
Or fawn tucked in the... – by Douglas Blair | 21 Views added 1 year ago
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Junior knows that
Dad will soon be home
Business trip to
Yankee City fame.
He’ll get to catch one game
A glove and cap from same.
And bring back home
Inscribed with Junior’s name.
Return is booked for Monday, Tuesday
Sure.
And Junior... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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We keep them on the Rooftop
Cages crudely crafted
Sheet metal windbreak and above.
We come from hovels under
Our birds’ mystique to wonder
And food and drink them
Full with love.
They take us on their wings
Band message writ that sings
To a... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Father, I love You
Seems an impoverished plea
Whereas You offer
The huge, homeward, happy, holy.
And words not always coming
From this bashful Child.
Me. Bashful?
Business guy, Family Man.
Toolbox of solutions.
Petitions neglected now.
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IN FOR THE RIDE
In this world of
Race for the line
So easy feeling
Less than exceptional.
Less than gripping
To a guy down the street.
Or even to one’s blood.
And Bible pounders speak
Of worth of a Soul.
Of Christ... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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In dream, I experienced
Terrific images.
Whale breaching
Close to my fishing craft.
I could have been Santiago
In Hemingway’s short novel.
First an expectation
From the Deep.
A casting away of the waters
As He lifted.
Held a long period
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Not a prayer
But a quietude.
Sourced in I love
You Heavenly Father.
You know my needs
I will not blurt
Them out for the moment.
I come close, waiting.
Wondering at you.
As Holy Spirit urges.
Just like that retriever
Dog of mine
Flopped... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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I watch him playing
Setting Lego pieces
In order by size, colour
Purpose.
No scrambling around.
Methodical.
Should this be a
Five year old’s way?
At play?
Bespeaking the engineer
Or teacher or researcher.
But all the while he
Sings one... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Our lauded writer
Has short tales
Speaking hugely.
The likes of “PASSION”.
Summer job up Hwy 7.
Lakes, cottages
And one in particular.
Grace takes a shine
To middle aged couple.
Their Son takes a big shine
To Grace, sans the fireworks.
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Harry, come on over
Sit down with your tea.
You’n me, how long’s it been
And winter gets us down.
Remember the months
You and I and Sam
Found the time to
Meet Sundays early for a gab.
Topics all over the place.
Face to face.
Mano a mano.
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Take an out of shape man in his retirement. Having difficulties with his wife and ill-directed Son.
Give him news about the chronic cancer condition of his former female workmate in the Brewery Office.
How might he contact her? Comfort her?... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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“My Lord God, is that you,This strange thing must I do;In taking my dear son unto Moriah,To have him harshly boundAnd flung upon the ground,A sacrifice consumed with holy fire?”
“Yes friend, that was my voice.I’m giving you the choiceTo render... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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I can waste a body
I can shatter dreams
I can raise my threat
Through a thousand schemes.
I can rob a home
I can stunt a life
I can tear the bond
Of a man and wife.
I can pull the blind
Down on hope or joy
And the neighbours’talk
I will... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Skipping lightly, gloriously
On a G harp.
Through all that Plantation
Suffering, stamina and joy
That history cannot destroy,
re-write or lessen.
That other races cannot
Even begin to copy.
So help me God.
LAWDY UH-HUH.
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Wife is breathing soundly in the
Other room.
i’ve been awhile.
Some dishes and clean laundry
Put away.
Noisy January wind
Trying to intimidate.
Up here on eleventh floor.
Today is Harmonica Club
At Rockway Seniors’ Centre.
Ninety minutes... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Fixed on the trail and following
Through swamp and plain and ridge
The pretty young Evangeline
Engaged for marriage.
Her stalwart, loving Beloved
Evicted by the Brits
From Fundy’s shore
To rich folklore
Acadians in fits
Of vengeance, long... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Fixed on the trail and following
Through swamp and plain and ridge
The pretty young Evangeline
Engaged for marriage.
Her stalwart, loving Beloved
Evicted by the Brits
From Fundy’s shore
To rich folklore
Acadians in fits
Of vengeance, long... – by Douglas Blair | 1 View added 1 year ago
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A menu and a rodent
A Paris kitchen thing
And one young simple sous-chef
Made tantamount to King.
The smells and sights amazing
The Lordly Critic smiled
The whispering Rat
Was under the hat.
And haut cuisine beguiled!
The others rats... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Blessed so unimagined
A child of God that’s me.
And dirt piled up, a bitter cup.
Made right at His sore Tree.
The Lord, foreseeing everything
And loving to the most.
Transfigured me and washed up
By means of Holy Ghost.
A wretch, much... – by Douglas Blair | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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I write this one
To settled jangled
Nerves, (from Athens.)
Strange reports
Enter your ears.
Have you missed Him, the Lord?
You the ones full of good works
Resulting in Peace
And victory.
Two things must first
Show on the Horizon.
A... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Long narrative poem.
Arresting.
Cites a sailor’s life and testing.
Took to bigger ships
To catch the bigger pay.
Wife and children, left behind.
But no, never lost from mind.
Even after shipwreck
One cruel day.
Three prevailed and washed... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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https://www.bartleby.com/42/647.html
Cut and pace this link for the haunting poem.
I have bested all of them
Lawyers, judges, hangmen high.
And I grabbed my dear Son’s
Waning corpse, I did, and hid.
For a lesser theft they
Sought him,... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Once read an account
Of exchanges with Kipling.
How he loved that Sub-continent.
Smelled, listened, winced.
Hungry always for the right facts
The right atmosphere.
Snakes, tigers, jungle boys.
Low ranked fighting men
Dying, striving,... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I have been in cloistered places
Where the atmosphere is grave
Once a murder in Cathedral
That the King could not stop, save.
But acoustics, Man they’re special
And the loneliness not bad.
Bringing worship from one’s deepest... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I think we aim too high
With the words we use so much
They’re high falootin, haughty
And they miss the simple touch.
The touch that hears some children laugh
That sees the ice-capped lake.
That walks the dog with sleepy eyes
Or pin-points... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Have you ever brought
The boat out?
Coolness of the morning
Flying fish cavorting
And glad that you appeared.
Remembering swim-less past years
When landlubber missed
The whole thrill.
Troubled by the briny spot
And full of... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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This is the moment
Not hours from now
I sing with my comrades
The Spirit shows how.
I know what is pending
The Traitor's embrace.
But here we will sing
And here touch God's face.
The lessons have peaked, yes
Of Joy and of... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Nazarites.
Remember those guys?
Never cut the hair.
Never into strong drink.
Living proof of
Unswaying followers of promise.
Parents and forebears
Witnessing
With smiles.
But you Jerusalem.
Backsliding vipers.
You stifle prophets’
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Something happened on that floor.
Auditorium .
Beat and expectation.
Unavoidable smiles.
Yearning to sing.
Oh, but I’m not a Singer.
Yeah, so what, Girl?
Let it out.
In this place we get it.
Agree with it.
Give copious... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Emogees I hate
Simply lacking the weight
To inject any help
In the thing.
Just a sentence or two
Would have much
More to do.
And the care taken
Must make me sing.
(People who say that they are part of a community of friends. But can... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Sometimes he jumps on board
And dirties all the things of worth.
He fusses and he cusses
And he denigrates the earth.
He calls on disappointments
You have tried so hard to drop.
He uses unforgiveness.
Weights of rage you could not stop.
He... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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She is such a little darling.
Came to me from a burned out home.
Loves the hikes we take
In raw, brisk outdoors.
She gets wide eyed
Even at the thought of it.
Have shared thirteen months now.
Absorbs my joy in the winds or hunt.... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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132 Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
2 How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes,... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Another poet here
Says that there are muses
To thank for verse.
Sweet little imps, or something
Who jump out with an image
Or a snappy choice of words or cadence.
This is wrong.
This is occult thinking.
Ever see the film 300 (Gerard Butler)
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He doesn’t get the hang of it
So busy, not much time
To ponder that sweet Gospel gold
And Jesus’ love sublime.
I read my Bible secretly.
I meet with girls of Faith.
And Sunday morning he plays golf.
While I a pew will take.
He ‘s... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Her eyes say she must not emote
Dining with parents, stiff, proper.
Probably twelve and posh school.
But she catches my eye
Trying not to show
Desperation
In a controlled day
A controlled meal.
A controlled life.
I hear the name Eleanor
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Do you fear Him
And seek His heart at
Every turning point.
First to call for counsel
His Spirit will anoint.
The upright are the ones
Transformed, yes changed
To gladder men.
Prosperity and peace of mind
The heritage, you ken?
So keep... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The hills allow his roaming
The heather beautifies
And clouds rehearse the changing
Of skies, and then more skies.
And crofters see his wandering
More Kingly than the sheep.
But he might bring wall trophy
And little more to keep.
So let His... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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He drew me out of Custom
One noon hour’s teaching spree
A head all full of numbers
A shyster, that was me.
So used to ripping people off
And gaining by the week.
I fancied Roman bullying
And used the bench to seek
Advantage and the friends... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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He had needed this
A walk late night
No one observing, or hearing
Except God.
He wanted it that way.
Wanted to bellow out
His problems.
Mental illness in the household.
Strange imaginings.
Accusations.
Worries without... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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There’s a silly sense
Of racing in these days
Lists too long
Rest too sparse.
This they call
Multi-tasking.
The pushy bastards.
Trying to reproduce ennui.
To the detriment
Of our Race.
Breeding their bad acts
Right up in one’s face.
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Rienzi
Local senior with flair
Moved from Sri Lanka
His heritage there.
Tales of the Crow
Or Elephant ways.
Mother’s rich kitchen
And what Father says.
Came to our Northland.
The snow and the WASP.
Brought up a family
At no meagre cost.
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Happens again.
Both wake up.
Not with a jolt
Or troubling dream.
But relaxedly
And in tandem.
Comes with over forty-eight
Years married.
Might not result
In lots of talking.
Just being close.
As a comfort
Outside each bed.
Night... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Give him some Lightfoot
Or Bob Dylan choice.
Pete has the guitar
And he has the voice.
Recognized way back
Near Walmart front door.
Lightening shoppers.
Else, all would be bore.
Putting some thoughts
In parents dear heads.
What if young... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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He sees me from a mid branch
His colouring keeps him safe
And I can hear his bright song
All over the place.
His young have left their nesting.
I saw them in lower bush
And finally Mommy Dearest
Gave them a push.
So now the... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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You’re proud you’re so creative
And friends will pat the back
Your next piece brings their worship
That’s a fact.
You strut just like the rooster
And cup your chin while musing
They hang upon your next word
Such an act.
But things began to... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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I find it hard
To father Him
In goodness.
God called.
We answered.
Someone had to get the chore.
The pressing delightful
Assignment.
But here he is at twelve years.
So imaginative
Agreeable and faultless.
Must he... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Not that I am prone to drink
I had my times with that
If caught, a blowing over date
Excuses got down pat.
But others still embrace the glass.
They sing and dance with glee.
Just like Andre Rieu and friends.
They concert happily.
Italian is... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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“Your calling.”
How they use the words
To cloud your lust for power.
As if you still remain
Yielded, broke to
Answer God this hour.
His Sovereign Will cares
Not you know
If you place high or low.
He only wants obedience.
When you obey, you... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Rainy day Morning
Mechanized chair
Doggy alongside
True friends they were there.
Spry constitutional
Only one leg
Man or his Best Friend.
Each had the same.
Skipping the three legged
Urging the Man.
All was exceptional
Exercise plan.
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Short hop from Town
And farms and silos begin
Mennonite gardens and clotheslines
All in.
Yards show badminton
Baseball and such.
Gardens all orderly
Mother’s sweet touch.
Buggies of one or two
Beautiful steeds
Horsepower is real
For many... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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January sixteenth
My harmonica group
Meets today.
Fran on piano
To beat out our tempo.
Robert and Matthew
Show with button accordians.
The other seven of us
Harmonicas C and G.
Varying levels of skill
Perhaps Phil or Richard
Most... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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It starts out empty spaces
But I’m awake, alert.
Expecting inspiration
To bring on hope or hurt.
To show a hero coming through
Or social norm gone bad.
To try to recreate the
Greatest thrill I’ve ever had.
To show a people unlike ours
Or... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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“My Lord God, is that you,
This strange thing must I do;In taking my dear son unto Moriah,
To have him harshly boundAnd flung upon the ground,
A sacrifice consumed with holy fire?”
“Yes friend, that was my voice.I’m giving you the choiceTo... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Were there not ten
With my blessing
Leprous one moment, and then,
Sent for the priest’s
Absolution,
Clean and recovered again?
Was there but one
Back to thank me?
He, a Samaritan too.
Shameless he bows.
Adoration.
Here at the feet of a... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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He came on many afternoons
In mid September heat.
The reddish breast
The antics rare.
The kind one likes to meet.
I set out seeds
For his strong beak.
He cracked all in his stride.
And never looked to me for thanks.
It went against his... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Just hanging like a spectacle
And lonely beyond words
And seeing false religion strut
With all their venom heard
And He a Teacher full of hope
With gentle hands to heal
Not judging every trip and fall
But offering comfort real.
He prayed as... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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PART ONE
He sits amputated
Mechanized chair
In brisk open air.
His courage not under-rated.
The sign is brilliant green.
Homeless, please give
I’m trying to live
On my own.
Circumstances mean.
His affect seems blunted
So... – by Douglas Blair | 49 Views added 1 year ago
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This Jesus You Mentioned
oh I gave the Book a whirl
night-times read it to my girl
stories telling how that rabbi
taught so well and healed.
quite a chap, no doubt of that.
his example got down pat
but his Lordship?
that's the part that... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Web friend for decades
She lives in Australia.
I in Ontario, hemispheres
Apart.
Poets of faith stuff
Who see the affinity.
Back and forth postings.
Some happy, some rough.
We see the Web
As a mighty Connector.
Interests in common
Not... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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She sat there with caramels
Given by Marta.
Marta and Pieter
Their fish stall for years.
Childless the couple
From Hungary arriving
Civil war, division
Betrayal and tears.
Market their business
Pieter the Buyer, gone
Toronto some days.
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Big wind beats night window
Eleventh storey vantage
Winter’s Song is warning
Stay in, stay warm
My Man.
But to be so coddled
Next day without
Brisk walking
Strips the system’ s powers
And robs the thrilling plan.
Out to see adventure
Well... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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The waves wash
To the shore
As with ages gone before.
And westerly wind
Gives posture
To the pine.
And the gulls laugh
As they float
With a heckling
Sort of note.
Oh dear Voyageur.
Might you have
Days like mine.
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Is it much to ask?
Your listening.
Your giving me the floor.
Few have time
Or decent interest.
Rather see it quite a bore.
But in times past
We might sit still
And delight in
Friends’ exchange.
And somehow we
Meet this hour Cam
As if all... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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He had a good meal
Mid afternoon
Sunday.
Eight of family present.
Excepting Stewart away
At Vancouver
Master’s studies.
Pop had read to all
Psalm 121.
Mostly from memory.
Voice strained.
Hardly audible.
Gram gone these
Past five years.
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Watching a series
On hardship.
Greenhorns just took
The long trail.
Hardly knew which
Ways to fail.
Wild cattle rustled
In passing. Some killed.
Beef for the bunch of them
Filled.
Rustlers a worry
In darkness.
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Bless Him
Bless Him always
For His Mercy
Our loving Lord.
He has set aside
Children’s iniquities.
Guiltless. Healed. Restored.
He has saved all of wrath
For the careless
For the faithless
Too busy to come.
But we know
We have place
In... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Did they do it at random?
A coin toss?
Did they point to
A district or sex.
Were they after
The rhyming
Or free verse.
Showing life as
Some songs
Or some wrecks.
We can all write
As poets, our pleasure.
Form be damned
If we wish.
We’re... – by Douglas Blair | 14 Views added 1 year ago
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Reached one hundred
Sort of a target
I guess.
Poetry a passion
For decades.
Whether a victory or mess.
Says in a brief space
Arresting.
Says with a choice word
Or phrase.
What had been stewing
Beforehand.
Often inspired.
Give Him... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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The quivering age rings of doubt;
The fuzzy aura of social norm;
Of grandmother’s fables
On how good comes;
Of past hurts and yearnings
Wrenching head and heart
Periodically upward.
Now collect and condense into
A single point of certainty
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I see what you do
On your Facebook
It all looks
So glorious.
The kids, up and down
The talk of the Town.
But could it be
Your life’s a bitch?
I hope that the converse
Prevails though
You’re one of my friends
I should care.
I try to... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I drove by this little unassuming building.
Nothing really suggested that it was a church,
but it had an orderly, colourful spring garden
in the front, a rude cross in the middle of it
and a sign over the door which read as follows:
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That white suit
And Medieval hair
Puckish musician and host.
Very large auditorium
With dazzling lights
On cue.
Starts out bold keyboard.
Agile bending harmonica.
Rooster clucking organ
And keyboard man smiling delights.
Lead guitar... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Still standing.
Beside the main street.
Feeling the pulse
Of spring rains,
The crown of summer,
The testing pull
Of autumn storms.
Children explore
My limbs and shelter.
Adventurers pass,
Out to new possibilities.
Some, retracing... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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It is good that I am here
More than just a house of stone
Place of rest in Israel’s God
God of all the earth alone.
They had come from Persian lords
Pleased to worship as they might
Weeping as the chains were lost
Seventy years in exile’s... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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LET IT RAIN
The burning of the fire
The choking of the flood
The times when cruel Adversity
Turned goodness into mud.
I knew your Fatherly passion
But whither has it gone.
You seem now to be elsewhere
Oh Father God please... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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I have safe haven
Sheltering Wing
Always tending
Everything.
Plague or poison
Tooth or claw
Schemed oppression
All He saw.
Abiding only
Praying too
My Protector
Sees me through.
(Now read Psalm... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Mom has me for the weekend.
Dad away on sales
Until Tuesday early.
She splashes her makeup
Tosses her hair
Warms up the car.
Going downtown.
Heintzman’s Music Shop.
Mom’s sort of special place.
Listening Tony Bennett
Mantovani Orchestra
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They come here
With vestiges of the old.
A red dot or yellow.
Tremendous meaning
In old country.
Access
Employment
Legal standing
Admixture, or not.
Rules binding generations.
Binding Mom and Dad.
Do they breathe... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Why am I in their corner?
Homeless people, hoboes
Tent City folk.
City must recover the land.
Many see shiftlessness
And danger.
Police passing by.
Barber Collins on hire
And report.
Water, warmth, waste?
But I have met... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Did Creator goof with this one?
Scatter-brain
Sanding over eggs
Large eggs
Then leaving them.
To heat and hunters.
No maternal attachment.
Same thing again when
Bruno winks at her
And gives chase next year.
God chose illustration here.
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Corregidor.
Browning used the term.
The husband Browning.
Indicating a sort of
Military appointment, vesture.
Giving reports
To the higher-ups.
Wandering and watching
Town or countryside.
Same to be said about poets.
About a singular
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I love him much
And it seems
He visits muchly.
Branch above my window
Early morning gusto.
Crimson his best asset.
Different tunes I will get.
It’ll come, it’ll come
Springtime.
Be yourself, be yourself
Pal of mine.
Sweet, sweet, that’s... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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He sits amputated
Mechanized chair
In brisk open air.
His courage not under-rated.
The sign is brilliant green.
Homeless, please give
I’m trying to live
On my own.
Circumstances mean.
His affect seems blunted
So sad.
But just get him... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Ask of me OK?
And largely.
Fathers love to give.
To lighten the load.
And you remember
My largesse
My rescues.
You are thankful
In all honesty.
Not like many I see
Who live right down
Your street.
Unappreciative. ... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Decisions have come
All fussing begone
For you Lord, are driving this car.
Past efforts of self
Pulled down from the shelf
Had not got the journey too far.
Like Hansel of lore
With Gretl implored
Let's lay down some... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Harvest Time
Emily Pauline Johnson
Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,
Wearied of pleasuring weeks away,
Summer is lying asleep to-day,—
Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers
And... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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There’s a fear that does no harming
It will register Above.
It looks reverently t’ward Jesus
It is searching for His Love.
It would never disappoint Him
Memories of His rescues grand.
And a debt imposed so softly.
Ever guiding heart and hand.... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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She was on the sidewalk tapping
In the noon hour press for lunch
And I almost missed her passage
My own problems hurt a bunch.
Really just some crude self pity.
As she smiled and carried on
And her age not reaching thirty
... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Elizabeth.
What if I could see you
Ten years hence.
But now I mean.
Time travel, I mean.
My sand diminishes.
Pop’s does.
I would see your growth.
Beauty.
Blooming womanhood.
Interests to pursue.
Arts or Science
Or Humanities.
Tussles... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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What does it take to
Imagine a newcomer
Off the boat
And encountering NYC.
Its crazy noise
And crowding.
Its juxtaposition
Of purposes, thrills and panic.
George somehow captured
It all on keyboard.
Where was he... – by Douglas Blair | 16 Views added 1 year ago
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The birds oft will gather
No panic or rush.
They congregate simply
Without strain or push.
And help one another
Through winter’s harsh days
While leaning on God’s help
Compassionate ways.
The same pace with Jesus
As He walked this Earth.
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I have a son of Love
My successor
If I have my way.
Perhaps Mother spoiled him.
Not sure.
But he looks me
Straight in the face.
As few advisors do.
May he host a
Kingdom of Equity
Compassion
Sharing of bounty
Justice for poor ones
... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Don’t know all
Dass gonna come out
But I will make
You folks feel.
Mebbe some spastic sounds.
Un-practised.
And wander wid me
And my boys
Down streets of hurting.
Loneliness
Abandonment
Tight cash
Quandary
Lost... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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On the bus Tuesday
After holidays complete
Standing room only
Shuffling of feet.
Yawning in the sameness.
Faces known for years.
Did they get refreshment
With some laughs or tears?
Hopes resolved at New Years
Peace and love large measure.
... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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The term much maligned
As men have wined and dined
And smirked at that uncommon thing.
To honour brokenness and loss
To see repentance pure joy bring.
And that is what the first Jews said
Who followed Christ
Though traitors seeming.
Tis now... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Up against it, are we?
And don’t know where to turn.
The wanderings, the hungerings
The dire straits that burn.
The crops have failed.
The guiltless jailed.
The wicked in control.
And seas will churn
Tornados turn
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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How It Strikes a Contemporary
Robert Browning
I ONLY knew one poet in my life:
And this, or something like it, was his way.
You saw go up and down Valladolid,
A man of mark, to know next time you saw.
His very serviceable suit of black... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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She was in the Chair
These past four years.
Movement and speech
Become mechanical.
Nifty stylus operated
By mouth and
Showing needs, hurts, triumphs.
Triumphs?
Yes definitely when
Reverse became manageable
On the joystick.
When spring... – by Douglas Blair | 9 Views added 1 year ago
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Aye and ’tis a bonnie glen
And for us the Laird’s enclave
Dinna fush the soldiers’ menace
‘Tis this moment that He gave.
And we gaither ‘neath the stars
And we tak the wine and bread
And we cleave with benediction
To each Word arr Saviour... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Do you see it all
With a glow my Son.
This war that’s just begun.
Do you want to go
Do you need it so?
The shovel, boots and gun.
Gone quite glory-mad.
Don’t be troubled Dad.
With the rest I run.
The ship.
The happy... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Ever notice my quick move
To forgiveness with my child.
Jacob named a cheat
And cheat he was
A swindler and wild.
He stole a birthright
Stole a flock and
Postured for a wife.
Seemed as if the Evil One.
Had mastered his... – by Douglas Blair | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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In the sixty third
I hit the roads of shame
Absalom muddies my name
And I will not see our
City of faith in pathetic
Bloody controversy.
So I hike and camp.
And hide, yes hide.
Once past the taunts
Of that rude Shimei.
He will get his,... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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They come having heard
Songs of the Maple Leaf
And Hockey Game Tonight.
Visions of the Musical Ride
Of Mounted Police
Or peace-keepers in
Ravaged Yugoslavia.
Scenes of Atlantic or
Prairies or Rockies.
Such a vasr expanse
Of opportunity.
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Be careful
You’ll miss it
The hints of the spring.
The blooms from the muskeg
The geese on the wing.
The vast glacial sculptures
That trickle and flee.
The lichen in colour
But nary a tree.
The wolf pups now yipping
The open Bay rolls.
... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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I languish in aftermath
Of tinsel mixed with pine
Aromas of the kitchen
And friends so surely mine.
It’s hard to see it pass
The miracle again
The telling of the story
Bringing peace, goodwill
To men.
A Baby left the... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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My parents, both musical
I know that within
And how I got started
Is hard to explain.
Mistakes and confusion
Now I'm on the street
For money and lodging
And good things to eat.
The music comes easy.
Folks clap in the Park.
And someday my... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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In a soldiers’ camp
With a storm at sea
Round a campfire glow
Come and play with me.
As a Mongol’s trade
For some aged goat cheese
On the quiet back porch
‘Gainst a summer breeze.
I have tunes you know
Others haunt a bit
Gentled hearts... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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I wonder what price
For this journey
From textbook
To strange tongue
Tall pine
From abbey
And penance
To portage
And comrades
All hardy in line.
The trek to
The New World
So dazzling
The ocean skies
Beckoning on
And red faces
Stare... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Rays of Healing
Those rays were promised
Healing ones
Like calves from the stall
Malachi had said.
And then that terrible gap
Over four hundred years
Jewry seemingly abandoned.
Greeks moved in
Besmirching the sacred.
... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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He took the child’s
Hand in his huge mitt.
A year now since
Parents had crashed.
And Uncle Ray smiled
At the nine year old
Her dress quite
Uneven and smashed.
Her hair combed in
Curious manner.
Her nails needing... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Yes I am in chains
It bothers me not
My imprisonment brought on
Attentions whether
In jest or true following.
I could die I suppose.
To leave and be with Christ?
Immediately.
Or the servant’s otherwise.
Up to the Father.
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Apprentice Angel
You go join them boy
We're seeming short by one.
No time to roust that baritone
If we're to greet God's Son.
I know you missed most practices
But heart means more than that.
And you observed the Feast of... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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They opened up a subdivision
Family names the theme.
And all the dough
The kudos so
Much fuss, just like a dream.
But brass ring pull
And pockets full
Left little room for God.
And He supreme
Worth all their dreams
Got... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Home as storm approaches
Wrapped and warm and safe
List of chores accomplished
Panic will not chafe.
Many brought on ennui
Loved ones on the list.
Hope good cheer resulting.
Nobody missed.
But a scene now beckons.
Baby in the straw
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Just like a billboard
At sea…white chalk
And much loved.
Vera Lynn’s Song.
Site of Elizabeth’s charge
To steaming horses
And men
Awaiting the Spaniards.
Awaiting loss of their Island
Or not.
Fade to WW2…
Nightly those bombers
... – by Douglas Blair | 41 Views added 1 year ago
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I cannot break through.
Not yet.
Delusions and the voices
She will get.
Fears, insinuation
Crimes of mind.
No defense as sense
Left behind.
How to love
When charges
Come like rain.
How to heal
Affront and pain?
God we wed so
Many... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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Inspired by a painting from Scott Kish of Toronto.
https://hil4dab.blogspot.com/2022/12/winter-on-farm.html
This night the snows
Will cover the crop.
Gentle like Bethlehem
Worries all dropped
Comes in the silence
Yes.
... – by Douglas Blair | 21 Views added 1 year ago
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One face looks out from all his canvases,
One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans:
We found her hidden just behind those screens,
That mirror gave back all her loveliness.
A queen in opal or in ruby dress,
A nameless girl in... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Have you harboured
A thought and
Couldn’t shake it?
An issue or scene
Or heartfelt child’s dream
A nature’s pause
Seeming you so fit?
That’s poesie due
To the Race
You’ve been through.
So dance with some words
Like lyrical birds
Never... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Cold has set in
And desire to keep inside
Much as possible.
Books, programs
Special meals perhaps.
But first down to the Mall
Black Friday rush
Things not really needed
But hey, the stuff is so cheap.
Christmas feelings
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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We had it again this fall
The crops of colour
And celebration.
The peaceful thankful Nation.
And friends at hearthside too.
Who rested, naught to do
But gather, peel, roast and feel.
The legwork was all through.
The beasts... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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I’m listening
Yes really
My ears are all your yours.
I’ve stopped all distraction
And all of my chores.
Your face bespeaks troubles.
I won’t condescend.
So just tell the story.
Right through to the end.
A friend has this function.
While... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Something soothing in
The coo and the ploof.
His song of lamenting
Right up on your roof.
He seems to know trials
But flies up above.
His nearness a comfort.
His empathy we... – by Douglas Blair | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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Psalm 37 Hits C. S. Lewis (Tolkien Helping…)
Once stern in his studies
And godless to boot
The brain his odd temple
And straining the route
To peace or discovery
To friendship of Faith.
But broken one season
When God... – by Douglas Blair | 19 Views added 1 year ago
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Cold walk this Sunday
Bundled for chills
Jack Frost at will
And sparrows below
And at rest.
Theirs not the fretting, ennui
And “What if”.
Theirs God has crafted
And ruffled design.
Small berries handy
And everything fine.
They will just... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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AT THE CEDARS
Duncan Campbell Scott
You had two girls -- Baptiste --
One is Virginie --
Hold hard -- Baptiste!
Listen to me.
The whole drive was jammed
In that bend at the Cedars,
The rapids were dammed
With the logs tight rammed
And... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Distant Rain
Your exotic pot
of White Rose hibiscus
has never known the Island sun
or monsoon rain.
So memory for you, my son,
is without green history.
As glass and stone
have framed your dark eyes
and all you know
is that land that... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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All seems darkened
November's closet.
Screaming, dying
Leaves most down.
Muffled clothes put on.
And night begins the Job
And ends it.
But inside a peculiar
Intimacy and comfort.
Home. Irreplaceable.
Sheltering.
And... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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MARRIED MAN'S SONG
Al Purdy
When he makes love to the young girl
what does the middle-aged long-married
man say to himself and the girl?
— that lovers live and desk clerks perish?
When neons flash the girl into light and shadow
the room... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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She hangs her laundry
From wrought iron balcony.
Bullet strafings mark
The white-washed brick.
Alongside.
Neighbour down the hall.
Almost curtains yesterday.
As he hiked empty streets.
To the bakery.
Open Wednesdays and... – by Douglas Blair | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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The Prophet was dreaming
Or maybe right on.
He saw a New Zion
Where hostiles were gone.
Where sieging and starving
Were things of the past.
Where justice and kindness
Were things that would last.
And this time the Shepherd
Was Almighty God.... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Dream-like
That day of talking
Of exchange most rare.
Waiting for a cab
In the foyer.
I struck up
An episode with
A man I did not know.
His eyes unwavering.
His voice suggested authority.
His use of Jesus’ Name
... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Write about me?
How vain, how pointless.
Who really cares.
Just footprint in the tide.
Swept by those waters.
Pulse of life
Overbearing.
BUT there are verses
Sparking Life inside.
How did I get them?
Cannot claim the genius
Inspiration... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Hark, we hear it
Through the ages
Comes the phrase
Of matchless worth.
Angels sang it
One sweet evening
Comes a Babe
For peace on Earth.
Mild He lays
His Glory by
Prince of Heaven
Rends the Sky
Humbly so
That... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Favour such as Joshua saw
Never thought for me
But adopted as I am
All of good foresee.
Marching, shouting at God’s call
Wicked walls fall down.
Land is taken, humbly so.
Mine, the keys and Crown.
Learning that a promise kept... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The Wee Shop
by Robert William Service
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking
The pinched economies of thirty years;
And there the little shop was, meek and shrinking,
The sum of all her dreams and hopes and fears.
Ere it was... – by Douglas Blair | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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Picture yourself in this cold walk, but only briefly.
The night compels me
The scarf is warm
The trail is virgin
The drifts have come.
The stars resplendent
The Moon a friend.
The wind a Love Song.
The bluish trend.
... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Roar like a train
Exerting last power
Sun going down
The King has this hour.
Day's chase behind
The women did well
Zebra and springbok
Some bellies to fill.
Cubs long supine
As birds sing to sleep.
Resting these lions
And no lesser,... – by Douglas Blair | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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Born on an island
Well, almost.
Prince Edward County.
Marshes, tight farms, birding
Wartime airstrip
Bass fishing in Quinte.
(Try it the Indian way,
But don’t get caught.)
He couldn’t stay settled.
Hit the rails to
Far West.
Box-car... – by Douglas Blair | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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Endless minutes
Waiting in August heat
Appointed corner
But no bench.
Leaning slightly
Against lamp post.
Dorothy could wait
Would wait for Bev.
Her friend would
Tote the walker
Down Main Street.
Relishing all the... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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Walking so briskly
The old golf course
Grounds.
Carpet glistening white.
Better sometimes
The night.
Stars innumerable.
I need the space
Slower pace.
To line up
Thoughts now scrambled.
Job
Relationship
Health
Unforgiveness
Faith... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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I am here for
Saying things
About the Lord.
Most approachable.
Most adored.
And in so doing
I have clung
To Holy Writ.
No Pope's tradition.
Not a bit.
No feigned reticence
Fear to show.
I, determined Him
To... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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She would order the biggest
Combo breakfast
Hot coffee.
A good 20 minutes off
From gattling gun pace.
Judy would Master
The front counter, anyways.
Always did, with flair.
Specially for the Seniors.
So many new workers.
... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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We have found Him
And know that He is truth
Distilled and pure.
A Certain Spring,
'Though damp and slush
Delay the budding.
A Prince with yarns
Of fields and flowers
And feathered trust.
Unspoiled by gold
Or other trappings
Of... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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We see the caped Crusader
We speed the Batmobile
And Cat Woman second storey
It all seems quite so real.
Iron Man with jet power
And Venom frothing rage.
The superheroes catch our eye
They take up centre stage.
But truth, we know, all... – by Douglas Blair | 10 Views added 1 year ago
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Came in 87 here
Father’s memories led.
Kitchener
Of factory fame
Mennonite
Meats and bread.
Solace too
For refugees.
Each a story sad
Hungary.
Yugoslavia.
Raped Sudan.
Ontario, not half-bad.
Music arts and colleges.
Open-minded stuff.
... – by Douglas Blair | 13 Views added 1 year ago
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Robert Louis…
You were ill most
Of your strained life.
Ended somewhere
Tropical.
Bolstered by your wife.
Could not shake
Those scenes so rich
Scottish Highlands
Treasure Isle
Doctor Jekyl, Mr. Hyde
And his ghoulish smile.
Felt the heart... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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Youth of Sherwood Forest
One of forest’s little ones
Vigorous and free
Running from the Baron’s blade
Scampering, tree to tree.
Having touch with critters all.
Never meaning harm.
Sparrow in the gentle hand
Falcon on the... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Of all classmates
Most forgotten
She supreme was
Reason for the trip.
Whiteboards riddled
With old snapshots.
Dance the twist and
Nearly wrench a hip.
She came late as others
Sought to cage me.
She was regal
Floating over all.
Caught my... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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https://histocall.blogspot.com/search?q=Rienzi+Crusz
Rienzi told me that I was the Boss. Not publishers or agents or critics or readership. It was cathartic, this poesie, and totally in my discretion as to form, rhyme, topic, intensity, odd... – by Douglas Blair | 8 Views added 1 year ago
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He had found heat
In the alcove of the store.
Early sunset
Hardly visible
Through all the clouds.
Made for a COLDER START.
But he was tough
Survival was his vocation.
Sometimes the cart pushed.
Sometimes the backpack
Two sets of clothes.
... – by Douglas Blair | 11 Views added 1 year ago
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I suffered the pangs
Of self-loathing
The converse revealed
In the King
Who shone through
Luke’s Gospel delightful.
Who fixed just
About everything.
He spoke of that
Kingdom amazing
While I doubted future
As good.
I knew in the core
Of... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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You look me straight on
And I like it
Not drifting to others afar.
History we have
Incidental
And laughter and tears
Such we are.
Trusting, a word
That comes quickly
Helping
Wherever one can
Can’t wait for coming
Encounters.
Man to... – by Douglas Blair | 6 Views added 1 year ago
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Shepherds see the little Hand
Cousin holds their sheep
Quiet down to Bethlehem
Others all asleep.
Angels spoke of Manger Joy
Pretty Mother heard
Cooing of the rafter doves
Welcomes from the birds.
Welcomes from the livestock too
They no... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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What have you done to me
After all the structures, the Temple
Innumerable adornments
All gold, dear king.
Horses and serving warriors.
Tribute and huge acclaim.
Queen of Sheba heard
Of your name/wisdom.
AND YET you cleave
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Is it that I have forgiven
Incidents long since been past
Hurts from a friend
Insults to end
Peace that I thought
Long would last.
Had I mistaken his meaning
Had I been troubled elsewhere
Did I foul up
Choose the Wrath’s cup
Misted these... – by Douglas Blair | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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On the water with her busy friends…
I rowed that
My Love had some leisure.
The River at dusk
Our rich fare.
And birds gathered
For her sweet pleasure.
Birds come from everywhere.
They sensed her affinity
Airborne.
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Red shirt and suspenders
One eye most gone
Harp playing everywhere
Bluesy the song.
Pain in the memories
Some fun times too.
Seeing the transport
Music can do.
Sheet music missing
Family tunes held
Different each... – by Douglas Blair | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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End of year ruminations
Gift list still pressing
The grandkids
Lois and Kirk.
Hope his job search pans out
Fancy degree almost useless.
Next door neighbour
Remembering his wife’s
Malignancy.
Tough times around
Wrapped in red and green.
... – by Douglas Blair | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Cold has set in
And desire to keep inside
Much as possible.
Books, programs
Special meals perhaps.
But first down to the Mall
Black Friday rush
Things not really needed
But hey, the stuff is so cheap.
Christmas feelings
... – by Douglas Blair | 31 Views added 1 year ago
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Here is this guy and he lives close by
And he offers me all of his tools
And he listens so well
To the stories I tell
And the times when
Despondency rules.
Yes this friend really cares
And he proves he’ll be there
... – by Douglas Blair | 7 Views added 1 year ago
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Could it be
That He saw through
Screaming nails
Screaming jaws.
And religionists
In murder partaking.
That He saw Me
In all weakness
In play-acting
And pride.
But he hoped for
Better things
To birth inside.
No, I wasn't at the scene.
... – by Douglas Blair | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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The Clydes are there
Out Hopewell Road
Their feathered hooves
Haul heavy loads.
Their thickening coats
To challenge cold.
And time congealed with them.
We love the drive
The view so pure
And meekness strong
In them... – by Douglas Blair | 12 Views added 1 year ago
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The heat lets go
And Sun apologizes just a bit.
Running, such running
Did not materialize a kill
In earlier hours.
Impala.
Too blasted quick
On those turns.
And warthogs had
Unprecedented pluck
And ugly tusks.
... – by Douglas Blair | 10 Views added 1 year ago
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I was passing the Trail of Adventure
And old snowshoes dancing delight.
Abandoning most of good pleasure
Marveling at boreal nights.
Dogs were well up for the running.
Sled carried foodstuffs out back
Coal oil and whiskey and sugar... – by Douglas Blair | 66 Views added 1 year ago
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