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Poet, Canadian, Search and Rescue, Space Stuff, Travel, Histories, CAF, RCAF, Writers Collective of Canada

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My Red Dress My dress was smallโ€ฆ No, waitโ€”my red dress was medium and red, not small and pink,pink like her parents and brother, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.Not large, adult, and crimson like herโ€ฆ

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Red Dress Day.
This is one story.
Her name was Shannon Faith

05.05.2025 14:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the above/ground press postal increase sale, above/ground press (b. 1993) doesnโ€™t usually offer any sales during this time of the year, but with the thirty percent increase recently via...

above/ground press (b. July 1993) : Canadian-made, owned and operated : everything printed in Ottawa, hand-folded + stapled in a basement on Alta Vista,
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05.04.2025 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bone Fragments in the Rough Fescue A lone farmhouse stands leaning into a pervasive wind , sands blasting divets accumulating in time, deer stay skittish, with blended brown covert listening, men with claws come at me, wrecking bar โ€ฆ

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06.04.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Bow Tie Affair in a Sunflower Field What attire is best suited, for the afternoon the sky rained children. Do not visit this place any longer. Only pain takes root here now.

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05.04.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weather Watch I wish I could place you, rolling deafback in the thunder valleys, let yourumble distant, echoing offheaving mountainous collisionsgeological crumple zonesalready in progresslisteningI could strikeโ€ฆ

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Goose Bay I heard there is a Lancaster at the bottom of Lake Melville,relics from the forties, wartime, when men were not found.Under the shadow of Lynx, Vulcan, and Canso,a metallic pyramid pays silent homaโ€ฆ

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08.02.2025 02:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Baikonur Roads and rail, Dromedary trail, literal the end of the line, the Cosmodrome place of fantasy and legend, under my right foot, tribute to brutal efficienciesMen dropped off nowhere, with plans to sโ€ฆ

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#poetsofbluesky

02.02.2025 03:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Together We Write
Date: Tuesdays, beginning 11 February 2025
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual - Register below to receive your Zoom link.

REGISTER HERE: wcc-cec-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

01.02.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Jasper I knew you before flames came,touched your face and name, I walked every street, ate dinner with you, as candlelight grew into an infernoas a nation watched, helpless, suspended in horror, LCD nighโ€ฆ

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#jasper #poetry #poetsofbluesky

01.02.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fort Saskatchewan The Quattro supercharged sound of the rental agency screw-upin my favor may cost me yet.Kickstart My Heart explodes from the sound system, and I am contemplatingthe cost of a police pursuit headingโ€ฆ

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#canadianpoets

31.01.2025 01:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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30.01.2025 03:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Bow Tie Affair in a Sunflower Field What attire is best suited, for the afternoon the sky rained children. Do not visit this place any longer. Only pain takes root here now.

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30.01.2025 01:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Churchill Your name conjures and stokes imaginations;None will do justice to your vastness and magnitude.The first place I thought I could dieโ€”800 testing their luck in the sea fog, slushy surf,Crushing drifโ€ฆ

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A Force for Women: Her Story. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. These virtual workshops welcome Canadian women who have served in the military. They are funded by True Patriot Love - Military Creative Arts Fund and the Captain Nichola Goddard Fund. Each session wi...

Signup link here wcc-cec-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

29.01.2025 15:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you have thought of lending your gift and love of writing, consider becoming a facilitator with the Writers Collective of Canada or join one of the many available workshops online and in person.

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Rejection of Light The Economics of Agreementsforged in places that no longer exist,like trust, are breaking down.Nobody knows how to grow food anymorein these unseasonably short seasons of us,and color is not what yโ€ฆ

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29.01.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alcan Corp โ€œThe rules are quite clearโ€,ย  you see Iย said lying, on the operating room table in the storage room of this delicatessen.โ€I needed to stop feeling is all,ย and sometโ€ฆ

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29.01.2025 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Season of the Haunt
YouTube video by Sandra Ridley The Season of the Haunt

Sandra Ridley's muti-vocal video poem, the Season of the Haunt from Vixen @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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22.01.2025 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was an excellent watch. It was nice to see the complete person, after it all the fame has passed. Great bit of nostalgia, I had just moved to Ottawa in 94, and the first time I had cable, a lot of evenings watching him.

29.01.2025 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Keys Seven Mile Bridge, splitting the mangroves, sea grapes, palms, and unwritten turquoiseโ€”Miami in the rearview, Tequesta in the soil and sands,A mixing pot of Spanish whispers, southeastern exposurebโ€ฆ

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