Tag: Poetry

• MY FILMS ON YOUTUBE!

  A feature-length film I wrote, produced, directed, andedited in 2005:ABRIDGE A short film I produced, directed and edited in 2018:This Island © 2023 by DC Lessoway

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  February 24, 2018

  Life, Philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

  poem, Poetry, snow, Vancouver, winter

• Dauntless

  so often we seek light where better, grander ideas lay where a bold Sol grants clarity still, too, solicit shadowed corners there, secluded riches await, affixed mine trauma, release truths, cleanse light or shadow, when confronted will whither to your rooted power bringing luminosity in night, shade in day photo and poem © 2018 by DC […]

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  February 3, 2018

  grief, Life, Philosophy, poem, poetry, Psychology, writing

  depression, Life, poem, Poetry, recovery, truty, writing

• Yeah, it Hurts, I’ll get Over it, Again

  low ebb comes, again my sword, shield against dragging hurt, out of reach comes cyclical thoughts not good enough, not good enough not good enough, not good enough not good enough, not good enough till comes a realization, late, so always late like a dish accidentally pushed to the floor you think, “why didn’t I […]

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  November 14, 2017

  depression, Gratitude, Life, Philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

  depression, poem, Poetry, writing

• Lest we forget (War, what is it good for?)

  governments quarrel, bicker to war, to war, comes a cry not of you, or I, but of those protected by cannon fodder for pride of country! sacrificing women, men for the safety of our citizens on the other side of the world! as a blood spattered child, alone weeps for his parents © by DC […]

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  November 10, 2017

  Canada, Government, grief, Life, Philosophy, poem, poetry, politics, writing

  conflict, November 11, poem, Poetry, Remembrance Day, War

• Young Once

  faintly in memory I’ve retained this moment of a child yet found

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  July 27, 2017

  Life, Philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

  memories, poem, Poetry, poetsofwordpress, the past, youth

• Shade

  hidden, midst subdivision’s sprawl, mingling stones scoured by yammering brook a peaceful place photo and poem © DC Lessoway

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  July 26, 2017

  poem, poetry, writing

  photography, poem, Poetry

• Dance Hall

  salt stained boards long ago trod, in joy, fused with music laughter leading to love’s caper in summer’s night dream photo and poem © DC Lessoway

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  July 25, 2017

  poem, poetry, writing

  poem, Poetry, poetsofwordpress, writing

• Canada at 150

  to speak of her, in this time salts my eyes, with pride sea to mountain, her nature, her strength her diverse peoples too yet we must face vile truths darkness of humanity those who first walked this magnificent land First People’s tormented by: John A Macdonald’s “extinguishing” stripping their sacred land their languages outlawed sent […]

  {DC Lessoway}

  July 1, 2017

  Aboriginal, Canada, First Nation

  Aboriginal Experience, Canada 150, Canada Day, poem, Poetry, truthandreconciliation

• Heaven’s Dance

  of ice clinging to winging dust, fleeting in duration, immense in breadth gaze gravitates upward in repose each eye deduces its own horse, spider, swimmer according to each state of being mine own mind alights upon memories of ancient cave paintings of people’s long ago perhaps, they too saw in the sky their own joy […]

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  June 25, 2017

  daydreaming, Philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

  imagination, poem, Poetry

• Heaven/Hell

  it’s been, always, there an aspiration to fly, above Earth’s curve till azure, turns inky, till am able to palm the spheroid, till this ache, fear, isolation are but remote notions of those down there down there hell we’ve fashioned after clawing at one another’s eyes being better at being better than the other, the […]

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  June 14, 2017

  daydreaming, Philosophy, poem, poetry, writing

  heaven, hell, Life, poem, Poetry