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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 →

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Her 1775 poems were not published in the form she wrote them until the 1955 Thomas Johnson/Harvard edition! (All previous publications distorted her capitalization, punctuation, and wording.)

Fascinating biography with many illustrations. Recommended for fans of his poetry.

1832, “Louis-Francois Bertin”, oil on canvas, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. A neoclassical portrait close to photographic quality.

Like my parents, I have been a long-term believer in Nature as a major force and influence in my life/our lives. (There is also much to be said in favour of the role of church in many people’s social lives.) … Continue reading →