A Sudden Radiance: Saskatchewan Poetry | 
“and he can feel how the whole tree resents him and despises him for not becoming its #glory of leaves” #QuotsySep21 from “Quince” by Anne Szumigalski. One of my all-time favourite poems!
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“and he can feel how the whole tree resents him and despises him for not becoming its #glory of leaves” #QuotsySep21 from “Quince” by Anne Szumigalski. One of my all-time favourite poems!
Driving by John Newlove
“You become the country.
You are by yourself in that channel of snow
and pines and pines,
whether the pines and snow flow backwards smoothly,
whether you drive or you stop or you walk or you sit.
This land waits. It watches. How beautifully desolate
our country is, out of the snug cities,
and how it fits a human.”
This has always been a favourite poem of mine. #Winter #QuotsyDec19 #PoetryMatters
at the local bar the farmers
get drunk on #beer and double whiskies
the crop is heading out
too late to re-seed but for the moment
it is forgotten
as they begin to dream again
maybe the crop will come yet
maybe
from “Next Year Country” by Elizabeth Allen #PoetryMatters
“Sometimes when the yardlight splis the darkness you see them outside the #window, pressed against the frozen pane, wanting in.” Angels of Snow by Lorna Crozier. #PoetryMatters
From “A Matter of Survival” by Elizabeth Allen. #Survivor #QuotsyJune19
@TheSpineView I‘m a couple days early but I thought this was also a good #PoetryMatters choice for #Book
This is one of my favourite mugs & the tagged book is one of my favourite poetry anthologies. The shelf in the background is one of my two living room “overflow” shelves which, as the name suggests, holds things I either can‘t fit or don‘t want in the library. #SpringIntoReading #BooksandBeverage
from Morning Ride by Robert Currie #Dawn #PoetryMatters @LazyDays @TheSpineView
The first cover that came to mind for #Sky was this one, from one of my favourite poetry anthologies. #Saskatchewan #LandofLivingSkies #ShowUsYourCover @kaye
St. George by Nancy Senior
"My dragon always loved walks
He used to go to the wall
where the golden chain hung
and take it in his mouth..."
#QuotsyJan19 #dragon
#poetrymatters #golden @LazyDays
Renewable Glory - Elizabeth Brewster
This poem speaks to me so much more as an adult than it did back when I was a teenager scribbling maudlin poems about jewel-coloured skies and the sacredness of memory. The last lines remind me that sometimes, under all the youthful idealism, lofty ideas, and naïveté, there's a glimmer of truth:
"Nevertheless
there is
unfading
something I hesitate to call
as I did then
glory"
#Wind #Remember #PoetryMatters
I first read Quince by Anne Szumigalski in high school (which was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) and it's stuck with me all these years. It is still of my favourites from this anthology. #Poetry #Writing #PoetryMatters @LazyDays
Editing the Prairie by Don Kerr #Writing #PoetryMatters @LazyDays
Minerva has decided there'll be no poetry tonight. I guess it's bedtime 😴 #LittenKitten #CatsofLitsy
I just realized the #PoetryMatters photo challenge is going on. How on earth did I miss this awesome challenge?!? Seems I've been in a bit of a daze lately due to work stress & sleep deprivation. My favourite poetry anthology is finally in the Litsy database, so I'm taking that as a sign & jumping in. The #Home prompt reminded me of this poem by Elizabeth Brewster: "Will I ever be at home in this country?/Will I ever be home again away from it?"
