Nature and Invention

NATURE

INVENTION 

Nature and Invention

                         

People and Places

Places and People

Canadians
Here are 
our signatures:
geese, fish, eskimo
faces, girl-guide
cookies, ink-drawings
tree-planting, summer
storms and winter
emanations.

We look 
like a geography but
just scratch us
and we bleed 
history, are full
of modest misery
are sensitive
to double-talk double-take
(and double-cross)
in a country
too wide
to be single in

Are we real or
did someone invent
us, was it Henry
Hudson Etienne Brûlé
or a carnival
of village girls?
Was it 
a flock of nuns
a pity of indians
a gravyboat of
fur-traders, professional
explorers or those
amateur map-makers
our fathers 
of Confederation?

Wherever you are
Charles Tupper Alexander
Galt Darcy McGee George 
Cartier Ambrose Shea
Henry Crout Father
Ragueneau Lord Selkirk
and John A. - however 
far into northness
you have walked -
when we call you 
turn around and 
don't look surprised
by: Miriam Waddington, born in  Winnipeg Manitoba

War and Hope

Dreamers

by: Siegfried Sassoon

Résumé

by: Dorothy Parks

Although the two poems I have chosen both have strong messages that both have value in todays society. "Dreamers" by Siegfried Sassoon for instance tells of the soldiers in the trenches and dreaming of their homes which is very true today and maybe even more prominent today. Although "Resume" by Dorothy Parks tells of one of the most important messages of our time right now. The message is that no matter the hardships of your life you should live and not end your life. Her poem was humorous at the same time as being deep and touching to several audiences and very well put together. In the end I liked them both but the more important message appears in "Resume".

       

Love and Loneliness

LONELINESS

LOVE

Love and Loneliness 

(with borrowed lines) 

Love and loneliness go but hand in hand 
Love takes us to a place so grand 
with beauty in words and singing
*come live with me and be my darling*
 this example shows of a great devotion 
this brings forth inner commotion 

contrarily loneliness is a pain in ones heart
as their precious people part
**Then there was born a silence deeper than any silence**
for depression is their only guidance
for darkness is their path 
for loneliness is love's cold revenge and heartless wrath


*line borrowed from "Love Under The Republicans (or democrats)" by Ogden Nash*

**line borrowed from "The Forsaken" by Duncan Campbell Scott**