A reminder that the submission deadline for Home and Away is March 31, 2009. Thank you to everyone who has already sent in their poems!
Angela Kublik
House of Blue Skies – Call for Submissions
Announcing a call for submissions for new anthology Home and Away - a sequel to the bestselling Writing the Land: Alberta Through […]
he sat next to me
intruding in my space
we read our books
as the bus rode along
the intimate touch
of his leg against mine
I never saw his face
but that touch
was on my mind
all day
~ Laura Dennis
Laura Dennis lives in Edmonton with her husband and two cats. Although she has written poetry for most of her life, she has […]
Alone in a crowd
of blue, black
and brown.
Unaware of
the envy
she has invited.
~ Laura Dennis
Laura Dennis lives in Edmonton with her husband and two cats. Although she has written poetry for most of her life, she has only recently begun thinking about pubishing it. She works as a secretary.
Come join me in my esoteric eastern ritualsTogether we will sit silently, reverentlyIn peace and discovery
We shall watch our thoughts drift byAs if clouds in the skyWe’ll clear our minds of everythingAgain and againUntil we’re left with nothingBetween us and reality
Together we shall uprootAll of our negativities […]
(at Gaetz Lakes Sanctuary in Red Deer)
I once saw a pond
covered with damsel flies,
the Boreal Bluet,
thousands of them
packed so closely together
the surface of the water
was a shimmering sapphire
under the reeling sun.
It was quiet in the forest
except for the cascading notes
of a Sora Rail.
The muskrat,
luxurious in fur,
kept quiet in her lodge
near the cattails.
If you had been […]
