Category Archives: Memories

MISS PICKARD

  MISS PICKARD   Recently, I posted Memory Is on my blog. This week, well, how is this for a memory? Early days with Ann. We have one child, a boy. We are expecting a second child. I decide It … Continue reading

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Once We Were Soldiers

  ONCE WE WERE SOLDIERS   H. W. Bryce Once we were soldiers, now we are not… We were wounded. we died; Now it is trouble is all that we got. Once we fought on the battleground, Now we fight … Continue reading

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One Sunny Afternoon

  One Sunny Afternoon   A mood poem   Circa mid 1950s, Regina   Early afternoon, sun streaks paint Slanted anti-shadows on the Scuffed-up, worn to grooves Beer parlor floor, which was propped open With a rusted old anvil.   … Continue reading

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Everything Old Was Not Bad

  EVERYTHING OLD WAS NOT BAD H. W. Bryce Notes There’s a tendency to abandon the old Not just old people into institutions But important traditions, institutions, Buildings, genres in music, story-telling Formats. Poetry, for examples, has swung From formal … Continue reading

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Maybe Tomorrow

  MAYBE TOMORROW H. W. Bryce Maybe tomorrow, things will be all right, Maybe tomorrow my sun will be bright, Maybe tomorrow will shine upon me And sorrow, sad sorrow, will set     me     free. I will remember the … Continue reading

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The 11th Commandment

  THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT In honour of Vimy Ridge Day, April 09. My poem is below. The good and the evil. First World War Monument to victory over the evil. Second World War “crematorium” ( a sort of mass murder … Continue reading

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  HAPPY NEW YEAR  Then a happy year Oh, we resolve to be better, We resolve not to be bitter, We resolve, and we mean it, Resolve to keep our resolve. But if wishes were horse, beggars could ride. So … Continue reading

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