SENSE AND NONSENSE

  • A Poem About A Poem

    A POEM ABOUT A POEM A poem encapsulates the moment. An idea niggles its way from your subconscious growing bigger more insistent as it slithers past everyday bits and pieces of paranoia. The poem doesn’t care that the neighbor’s dog woke you up last night or that the phone rang once again urging you to…

  • BROCCOLI SALAD

    Virginia’s writing prompt for a poem: Find a favorite recipe. Now write a poem inspired or in the style of that recipe about a family secret—yours or someone else’s. Broccoli Salad Broccoli is good for you Cut in tiny curly cues Celery sliced so very thin Green onions add and then begin: Toast your slivered…

  • A Fabulous Day

    What a fabulous day! I’m so happy and gay This morn broke my heart Cause my car wouldn’t start But a battery was bought And the ignition caught The wheels went around With barely a sound What a fabulous day! I was happy and gay But then later on My key-rings were gone Two sets…

  • APRIL POEMS FROM THE CARIBOO

    April poems from the Cariboo Chimney smoke clots the nostrils I can feel the beginnings of a sneeze, a snort A wheeze. Air is heavily laden with moisture Black smoke sifting down To the ground An Old Log House Old log house built In 1927 Still habitable My brother’s friend Lives there along with his dogs…

  • THE BATTLE OF VERDUN- 1916

    THE BATTLE OF VERDUN- 1916

    The Battle of Verdun- 1916 In August 1914, Charles Holland Haynes Left Vancouver on a troop train For military practices In Valcartier, Quebec “Brittania Rules the Waves” Was the catch-phrase Of the times Those upstart Germans And their allies Daring to compete against The British Empire and France Taking over lucrative World trading markets with…

  • When “Still Standing” Came to Town

    The school gym packed to capacity. An entire town guffawing, snorting, giggling helplessly, with barely enough time to breathe before convulsing into another throat muscle spasm. Hilarious performances pertaining to people we know and places to go in our “Still Standing” community.

  • JUST AN ORDINARY MAN

    April 6 Poem: JUST AN ORDINARY MAN An Ordinary Man That’s what he was Just an ordinary man Never got no medals For doing what he can… He excelled at many things I admired him for that He also had some issues That were wrong and that’s a fact. But an ordinary man Can be…

  • Curlings on TV

    Men’s World Curling Curling’s a sport that’s becoming well known And even some Chinese rocks have been thrown Canada’s skip who’s from Newfoundland Is playing the team from The Netherlands The Dutch are new at playing on ice Water don’t freeze when it leaks from a dike. Their team is gradually learning the game And…

  • The Art Show

    THE ART SHOW I went to the Art Show looked around and it was like music to my eyes food for my soul Such a mosaic of colours shapes, sizes, textures It filled my inner sanction with gobs of sweetness, spiciness and even saltiness Tiny pieces of fabric sewn together to compose a colourful landscape…

  • THERE’S A LONG ROUGH ROAD ‘TWEEN HOPE AND CHANGE

    I wrote the following poem in August 2015. I wanted to commemorate the minor miracle of how a group of “artsy” folk in the Village of Fraser Lake was able to pull off the first successful Fraser Lake Festival of the Arts- in the pouring rain yet! There’s a long rough road ‘tween hope and…