Category Archives: Poesy-Prosey-Artsy

scribbles that look like poems but don’t scan or rhyme; or else they look like regular writing in whih case they are prose; or they are pictures which look like neither

Excited (Red)

Excited red cheeked children yell with glee at the jerking antics of a crazy yellow kite. Sunday-keen Father struggles with his jiggling hat while looking at his watch, and, no doubt, wistfully thinking of lunch and a beer.

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Excited (Green)

I’m excited at the thought of leaving all this familiar pasture. I’m told that the grass is greener on the other side of the hill. I hope not. I know green. I want to know blue and yellow too. Toronto, … Continue reading

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Flying

I gazed awhile at a candystriped biplane shredding clouds nearbabove helterskeltering and whirling through gutknotting loops and pirouettes. Surely the pilot was whooping and yelling?

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One Day I’ll Learn

One day I’ll learn, maybe not in words of one syllable why I am compelled to flee the room full of raucous riot and elbowing society, like I did just now

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Poem, Seeping

A poem is seeping through my thoughts, not one with rhymes and lines and meters but a message of hues and sparkles and tinkling sounds, unrelated to cadences I have read and tried before….

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Coming to Warsaw (On a Train)

Horses (still) with ploughs, dust, red seats and old ladies planting small neat yellow potatoes.

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What THEY Didn’t Teach Me in Engineering School

I left the University of British Columbia in 1978, so long enough ago that I have only a hazy recollection of the courses, exams, assignments and other hurdles I had to leap over to earn a degree in Geological Engineering. … Continue reading

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