A stick in the abyss In the middle of our street A pit within our midst The riddle we must meet Gaping like a wound Festering and dark A haz...

Many years ago, I wrote the following bad poem:  My Eyes Bleed Coke My eyes bleed Coke My bread doth me choke My gums fairly smoke I’m about...

Now is the summer of our discontent Made inglorious winter by this climate change And all the clouds that poured upon our houses Endless rai...

Where do you go To see the grain grow Saskatchewan, naturally For the birth of Medicare I need to go where? Saskatchewan, naturally For dark...

I am the very model of a hulking mad barbarian When I don't see pillaging I really get contrarian When I come for you I wield A bloody a...

Three wee tykes In fields at play They made their pitch for lives ahead Dreams in clover, dare to tread Where are they now? No one can say P...

Ba, ba--bum ba ba Pum pum ba ba bum ba ba Lum de dum ba pum pum pum ba, ba--bum ba ba  

15,000 years ago Hungry Natufians Mashed grain and water to make dough For family and friends Set fire to stone and made it glow Cooked that...

Man and horse A symbiosis  Animal husbandry's Ultimate gnosis Strong back, fleet hooves Domestication Foundations of the horse-drawn nat...

When for beauty do thee search Look no further than the birch; Gaze upon it and you'll see A thin-leaved, deciduous hardwood tree Sure t...

We clap and sing Happy Birthday And implore the birthday love To blow out candles on a cake They do Snuffing out the dancing flames with win...

A giant straddles the Terminator between light and shadow Like Atlas, but actually Hercules A Dutch treat from Austria, caught in a Matrix o...

XYLEM GLYPH MAMMA IGLOO OKAPI FUZZY My starter words Betray me in the same way as Our dreams for tomorrow The fallen scoop of strawberry ice...

They slept unmoving for months and years Paper and chemical memories Slowly and silently buried Under the grey shedding skin Of neglectful c...

They're Bouchers Three Oh me oh my Two of them just swung right by They came to say hello We were sorry to see them go And the strange t...

The call, it came Sans question mark And so I answered On a lark Yet no reply Came back to me I never left They didn't see  

One might toss some jacks; caltrops for kids Bounce ball on boardwalk Grab jack Second ground, grab two And so on Bonus points: ball colour ...

Life isn't always perfectly pretty Sometimes there's mud in the water In poetry as in life Green needs brown Words need structure Bu...

That one prophetic conversation I can't shake it from my mind 1992 or 1993 After the fall of the wall; the end of history "What if ...

Black threads under our collective skin Spreading insidiously through our careless flesh Threads of envy; greed; hate We live in one skin Th...