For the past 68 days, blue skies poetry has featured work by a different Alberta poet each day, as we explored the idea of “Home and Away,” and how that idea has shaped our lives. Dymphny and I hope you have enjoyed these poems, written by some of Alberta’s finest poets, and we hope […]
House of Blue Skies
Publishers launch
Home and Away: Alberta’s Finest Poets Muse on the Meaning of Home
For immediate release
December 21, 2009
Alberta micro publisher launches anthology that celebrates home.
House of Blue Skies is pleased to celebrate the launch of Home and Away: Alberta’s Finest Poets Muse on the Meaning of Home with three evenings […]
“All language is a longing for home,” claimed the 13th century Persian poet Rumi. Although our own writing is influenced by our musings on “home and away,” Angela and I hoped the theme would inspire the gifted poets of Alberta too. If we can gauge it by the deluge of submissions to this anthology project, […]
in the city money sleeps on the street
pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
to find a coin portends more to come
put a penny in your shoe, walk around
like an octopus
its tentacles armed with seductive suction cups
holds fast its grip, foments strangulating self-doubt
a craving for that adrenalin rush
the bright lights never dim
pollute the night, obscure infinity
fleeting, meaningless encounters
block peripheral […]
# 1
bluer than his blind eye
is the letter my Opa
holds in his enormous hands,
my mother’s pen
has tattooed the frail paper
with this month’s
immigration stories,
cheery bravado disguises
her endless dismay
at Canada’s unforgiving climate,
the cabin’s rough boards
forever leaving splinters
in her dancer’s feet.
memory clear as
a new marble, I can see him
slouched on his end of the couch
his good suit immaculate,
the […]
