Monthly Archives: April 2022

All 37 plays.

Growing flowers in the house.Here, dianthus and snapdragons.

Winner of ARTA’s News & Views poem contest. winter 2015 issue. The magazine picture is evocative though the mountain views from the first hills west out of Calgary on #1 would have been more accurate and exhilarating. This poem ‘wrote … Continue reading →

(Time to get out there, outside again…) It’s not accidental that screensavers are often of tranquil scenes of nature. Or that the Shaw’s Frame channel is so popular as a screen background in many poems. Likewise, when people escape cities … Continue reading →

  Death is very much a part of our daily lives. If we aren’t looking at photos in our homes and in newspapers of those we’ve known who’ve passed, we experience death moments of other kinds, especially in Nature. Sometimes … Continue reading →

Solitude, Nature, and sanity vs. pig-piling, materialism, and madness. Uh, why leave home when you’re at peace? And the knowledge, especially of late, that good weather is at best ephemeral and more so these days, what with the proof of … Continue reading →

Situational irony. At the time, I experienced this poem, I was struck by the peace of the cemetery juxtaposed by the noise of the highway some 100 yards away. Many times, it appears that folks are going nowhere fast, only … Continue reading →