WHEN RELIGIONS COLLIDE
A bloody travesty way back in timeAre we seeing history repeat again the crimeIn fields of death over contested landsFor that which is deemed holy passing from hand to hand It has ever been so for a thousand years Man’s gigantic events causing mankind to shed tearsNothing ever learned in the hard march of man (1)For […]
PASTORS FROM HELL
Did the devil commission some US pastors to rantTo the people of the US in unholy cantComparing an elected president to Christ on the crossMoaning like banshees telling the world who was boss? Hard to stomach listening to this imbecilic drivelPushing false narratives believing real minds will shrivelWere these pastors molded in hell treating all […]
TOM THOMSON
Tom is gone now but the pines still whisperCanada’s lakes in their beautiful blues still glimmerThrough birches and leaves in the fall that shimmerWaiting for new brushstrokes though winter beckons dimmer To paint the leaves falling on the Canadian ShieldSeen around the world in red, silver and greenNever to be forgotten our forests continue to […]
WAR IN UKRAINE
Cracking, cracking, the bullets are flyingSounds sounds the children are cryingBombing bombing the buildings are crashingStanding standing defiant eyes are flashing Fighting fighting against invading war hordesHolding holding brittle armies at the gatesDefending defending your cities from thousandsStriding striding with resolve to war madness Never never halter rights to just livesOppose oppose tireless in your […]
A FIRST NATIONS BOY
I was only twelve but am now with the ancientsI don’t worry anymore about harsh cold nights Our land is so beautiful full of water and treesWhere wildlife abounded in the rivers that surroundedA land with colour as far as could be seenRoom for us all and no need to be grounded Now I’m no […]
NIGHT RAIN
Its raining on the streets ‘way down belowGreying the city skyline and places where to goWhen a few lights shine bringing warmth to rain’s flowIts time for a walk in the rain to see the city glow As long as one is dry and warmWalking along street by street An urge is there to seek the […]
MEMORIES OF YOUTH, THE CANADIAN ROCKIES
I remember the Rockies when I was a kidwhich surrounded BC in massive gridsUpwards upwards every foot a new sightOn to the peaks lost among clouds of white Rocky and tumbled with hard black granite Trees on slopes growing in dark green palettesOne could stand on the Great Divide impressed Splitting the Canadian roof to the east […]
A NEW GOD HAS BEEN ENGINEERED
Scaling mountainsReaching the deepOut to the universeAllowing mankind to leap Creating wordsAnd grabbing our livesAs it cuts our throatsWith electron knives AI is out to get us Negating humankindNot built with flesh and bloodDrowning us in a rising flood Watch out worldThere is a new engineered godAs AI is programmed by puny mindsTo control our thoughts […]
UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS
Along the Roaring Forties south of Australia Cold winds blow, free around the globe A great navigator is flying the icy fringes of AntarticaThe Albatross’s home on the ocean’s cold robe Gone for months gliding over the wavesBad weather a detail in its free flight so braveAs it lives its life far from shore and nests and […]
THE BLOOD OF CANADA
The blood of Canada runs in great rivers and lakesOnward to the oceans changing colour as it createsLifeblood for all its sons and daughtersIn green for the forests and black for its soilIn blue for its waters from shore to shore to shore Red for the passion a great country invokes As its peoples move wherever, […]