Lost in the library This poem was written and recorded live for the CBC Radio event Chapter & Verse, at the National Library of Canada in 2004. The theme we were given to write on was “Lost in the library”. Here’s what I came up with…. I was beginning to wonder why you were never [...]
Looks like I’ve lost another hero to love, guess I should have known. And some days it’s all too easy to judge, out here on my own. Love has come, done it’s work: took the edges of you: the edge I held on to chorus: oooo, oooo, oooo….oh, oh, oh, love sounds sweet, love sounds [...]
SHE RIDES spin me like I have already spoken like a spoke holds its tension like it’s together that the spokes are the invention of a wheel that a wheel is only as round as it’s tension that a wheel is a round invention She gets on her bicycle, She gets on her bicycle, She [...]
Strange as this paradox may seem You will do this best by not trying to do it at all You must quickly make up your mind Or as quickly, be cast in yonder mud puddle Two things must occupy your thinking powers To the exclusion of every other thing: First the goal Second, the momentum [...]
Friends, we are divided by many things: Geography; Theology; what songs we like to sing. But there is a simple question that I think unites us in the end: a question we’ve all be asked, by someone who’s not a Friend: “A Quaker? Really? Wow, huh. I’ve never met a Quaker before. You seem [...]