Last summer when Angela and I had to suspend some of our dreams and ambitions for House of Blue Skies, our publishing venture, and blueskiespoetry.ca it broke my heart just a little, I must confess. Not having mastered the ability to clone ourselves, it was the necessary choice in lives choked with other priorities… but […]
Hello.
I’m Bob Stallworthy. Congratulations to Angela Kublik for the great work she and her team are managing for the the new library in Fort Saskatchewan. May her steady hand that helped to guide House of Blue Skies and this blog, blueskiespoetry.ca, also help to see her new project through to successful completion.
I’m pleased […]
Dusk colours the uneven stairs.
I stand on the wooden steps and look around,
the distant sea hidden
behind ancient, towering trees.
I imagine waves
moving fishermen’s boats,
the smell of salmon and tuna
wrapped in seaweed.
Sushi restaurants abound
on the winding streets
of this port town,
tiny gems behind indigo curtains.
Now I climb
the steps two at a time.
At last, I reach the Shiogama Shrine
structures […]
An indigo sky pours moonbeams
over my naked body.
I soak in midnight baths,
avoid curious stares at my full breasts,
my desert dune hips, my olive skin.
The Mediterranean Sea in my bones
ripples as an unexpected body
sinks in the hot spring.
I glance at the folded skin.
Gomen nasai, a woman’s voice cracks.
She gets out quickly but I insist,
It’s okay. […]
Our life in this world
A boat rowing out to sea
leaves no trace behind.
~ Andrée Levie-Warrilow
“Poetry has been a way for me to make sense of events in my life. Published poems include 2 Honourable Mentions for poems submitted to the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards Contest (chosen from entries across South Western Ontario), and a poem […]
