Carol Brisebois

#TodaysPoem (s)

One day the earth will shudder.
Savour what does not fall.

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On today's CBC's The Next Chapter, host Antonio Michael Downing talks with author and creative writing professor Robert J. Wiersema, who recommends three books to make you a better writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter/clip/16173454-want-better-writer-read-books

The poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press) is perched on a tree branch, with morning light showing through the leaves.

Handwritten transcription of part of the poem "The Forest" from the poetry collection NMLCT by Paul Vermeersch

"The only thing growing taller, growing greener,
than your memory of being a forest is the awareness you will be a forest again."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
from The Forest by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social in NMLCT (2025 @ecwpress.bsky.social) ecwpress.com/products/nmlct

I just learned that a distant ancestor previously unknown to me was the inspiration for the character Ma Kettle in Betty MacDonald's semi-fictional memoir, the Egg and I. Ma and Pa Kettle, the film series, followed. And this gives me a reason to smile.

Along the Coastal Shores of the Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx
2023

#TodaysPoem
#SundaySentence

It must be beautiful to be a temporary thing,
as beautiful as it is to last and never fade.

~Luke Sawczak
contemporaryverse2.ca/poetry/the-m...

Photograph of a 1960s British street in which two small white girls in dresses play, one swings from a lampost on a homemade swing using rope while the other watches

UK photographer Shirley Baker, Hulme, Manchester, 1965 #WomensArt #Monday

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#TodaysPoem

night drapes
stars emit light
around the north star-fire
stars journey
in their wake
stories extend

~Manny Loley

I can't help smiling when I play You are my Sunshine on guitar on an October day that feels like summer and I hear tiny song birds sing through the open screen door.

Poet Heid E. Erdrich Responds to a Portrait by Amedeo Modigliani | National Gallery of Art The educator, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and guest curator at the Mead Art Museum of Amherst College responds to Modigliani's "Roma Woman with Baby"

#TodaysPoem

his own mad beauty  
as it met her smile 
that look that bright  
that eye she gave.

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#FirstBirdOfMyDay

Early morning robin in the rain hangs out beside the grapevines trellised by the chain-link fence and then bobs away out of sight. Winter is coming. Will she stay?

Ten years ago today, the leaves and needles in an old birdbath after a rain. #October The same thing is going on today. Leaves, rain, birdbath. #time

Heartbroken to hear that Jane Goodall has returned her borrowed stardust to the universe. Her moving letter about how reading shaped her life: www.themarginalian.org/2019/01/31/j...

A Lascaux horse, a quilted line
#sashiko #paleolithicart #lascaux #indigo

#TodaysPoem

"the promise of a stillness, which is more like hovering,
the way a hummingbird hovers"

~Seni Seneviratne
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We are Still Here
Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe
2021

The 1931 girls of St. Michaels Residential School in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, in a group photo and named.

Girls of St. Michael’s Residential School in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan in 1931 (as researched by my late auntie Ruth Seesequasis): ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy…

Prayers for Our Lost Children
Loretta Gould ~ Mi'kmaq
2021

Blue book with star cover featuring cartoon gran / Kōkum, child and mother in front of residential school memorial of small shoes and candles

Excited to receive & review @davidarobertson.bsky.social ‘s new book #LittleShoes Another tool to help primary #children understand the #Truth about #ResidentialSchools Thanks to @librarything.com #EarlyReviewers #Indigenous #earlychidhoodeducation #Reconciliation

The Runaways
Jim Logan ~ Métis
n.d.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
#poetry #teaandbannockstories

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
#poetry #teaandbannockstories

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

September Sumac
Luther Pokrant
2020

#TodaysPoem

So gently I offer my hand and ask,

Let me find my talk

So I can teach you about me.

~Rita Joe

poetryinvoice.ca/read/poems/i...

Some of the incredible works in the impressive exhibition ‘Early Days: Indigenous Art’ @mcmichaelgallery mcmichaelgallery until spring, 2026.

Some of the incredible works in the impressive exhibition ‘Early Days: Indigenous Art’ @mcmichaelgallery mcmichaelgallery until spring, 2026.

Some of the incredible works in the impressive exhibition ‘Early Days: Indigenous Art’ @mcmichaelgallery mcmichaelgallery until spring, 2026.

Some of the incredible works in the impressive exhibition ‘Early Days: Indigenous Art’ @mcmichaelgallery mcmichaelgallery until spring, 2026.

Some of the incredible works in the impressive exhibition ‘Early Days: Indigenous Art’ @mcmichaelgallery mcmichaelgallery until spring, 2026. Not to be missed.

My series of oil paintings of Girls-Who-Are-Not-Having-Fun-at-this-“Party” are finally framed and hung together in my study. #MedSky

This makes me smile.

Print featuring a vase of large blossoms in purple and red on a patterned covered surface

UK printmaker Vicky Oldfield, Fragile beauties, 2016 #WomensArt

I re-watched the Tom Hanks movie "Greyhound" (2020) based on the book by C. S. Forester, The Good Shepherd (1955) and was reminded of this timeless adage:

"It's not how we fall, but how we rise that defines us." - C. S. Forester, The Good Shepherd (1955)

#SundaySentence