Poetry, Subjects & Themes, Places
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Pricking Balloons
by James C. MacDonald
These poems transport the reader to an imaginative world resonating with mythological, spiritual, and existential significance. Here, with wit and irony, the poet challenges us to resist common assumptions with measured skepticism, and posits that ...
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Lines by Leon
Poems, Prose, and Pictures by Leon Stevens
Lines by Leon is a selection of poems, prose, and short stories that address the subjects of loss, struggle, and reflection. Inside these thoughtful contemplations are original observations about ego, behaviour, human relations, places, and the ...
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Ten Cities
The Past Is Present by Wayne Johnston
Each of us has memories that are born of particular places. When we return to those places we enter a realm where the past engages in dialogue with the present. Our ghosts from the past persist even when the places have changed, our memories have ...
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Seaside Summer
by Brian Rockvam
Seaside Summer is a sweet burst of poetry that celebrates summertime fun spent with friends and family on or near the ocean. Its words and illustrations embody many childhood summer pleasures including warm water for swimming; vast sandy beaches for ...
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Murmurings
by Howard Giskin
Living was not lost on us for the island’s millennia spoke, its nooks and crags murmuring… There are stories being whispered around us, if we but listen. Murmurings is a collection of poetry that draws upon the experiences of a lifetime spent ...
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Arcade of Memory
by Howard Giskin
“The passing of years seems a ruse of the gods, for only yesterday I was playing in the sand.” Memory is a strange thing. A fragile patchwork of recollection. A dream that fades after waking. Arcade of Memory is a beautiful collection of essays, ...
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Riverlines
Poems of time and place along the North Saskatchewan River by Douglas Elves
Douglas Elves writes of the North Saskatchewan River. Ranging from midstream to far watershed, the Saskatchewan Glacier to Cumberland House and beyond, his poems are of those who have lived and worked on or near this river: the coal-miner fishing ...
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Stone by Stone
by Linda Whittenberg
Late in his life, Carl Jung began to build a castle on the shores of Lake Zurich. Into the stones of the castle’s walls he carved symbols, images, and words significant to his own inner journey. When the first tower was complete, he spent long ...
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On the Road to Delight
Poems and Short Stories by Peter Shred
Life has had it's ups and downs. The last twenty years or more have been in control of an eighteen wheel transport truck. This is my poetic interpretation of the the happenings at work and home. Being alone most of the time, lets the mind wander. ...
