These poems each have a set of guided questions, related videos that allow for deeper investigation, and suggested writing activities. We'll be adding more poems here soon! The Dead This sonnet considers the fragmented, elusive way the dead resurface in our lives. people arrived Tracing and traveling with Kaie Kellough’s verse, the people in this poem plead to have their pulses read out loud. Money A museum coin collection prompts a reflection on the captivating nature of currency. The Problem With Being a Box Too Small for Its Contents Misch expounds the unbearable work needed after a breakup: to separate from your lost love and “rejoin yourselves…even when you don’t want to.” Regardless This vibrant list poem celebrates the right to just Be. The Bull Moose A moose's final, tortured moments unfold in a series of brutal images. But I’m No One But I’m No one is a reflection on our tendency to fear death and the manifestation of this fear through uncanny beliefs. Marshlands Quietly pause to take in the colours and sounds of a marsh. Chemo Side Effects: Memory The stop-start, grasping form of this poem mirrors the speaker's struggle to reconcile herself with one of the side effects of cancer treatment. The Fatigue Fatigue is often the first sign something is wrong with one's body. Fatigue looms larger than life in this poem which grapples with meds, family, and coping. The Potato Harvest This lonely poem is about so much more than a bare field. the knowing Connie Fife cryptically combines land and body in this poem exploring connection to place and past. Qawanguq with Fox Abigail Chabitnoy’s dreamscape of a poem depicts a coy little fox. Mantra of No Return It is possible to travel home when one has never been there. This poem does. Pale Blue Cover In this nostalgic poem, the speaker reminisces about the author Matt Cohen. Homage to the Mineral of the Onion (I) Could a vegetable be the antidote to war? This poem thinks so. My Poem Without Me in It Imagining herself removed from her own poem, a poet realizes how poetry gives her the space to create herself. Famous In Famous, Naomi Nye speaks to the relationship between objects and the ideas they represent. She is as famous to the poem as the poem is famous its words. The New Experience Join the speaker on a whirlwind journey towards a surprising realization. An Innocent Little Girl • Favzieh Rahgozar Barlas captures a snapshot of child marriage, its cultural and economic context, and its physical and emotional aftermath. Beat! Beat! Drums! With rich bombastic language and Whitman's trademark sprawling lines, this poem rallies troops for war. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong In this tender poem of healing, care and remembrance, Ocean Vuong reaches out to his younger self. The Blue Guitar In this glosa poem, P.K. Page strums out questions about being an artist and telling the truth. Dear Updike Evelyn Lau powerfully describes the world around her in order to grieve the loss of a beloved writer. My sister cries the sea In this poem of environmental apocalypse, Mordecai pictures a divided planet as her sister, listening to the voices of plants and fish as they mourn habitat destruction in creole I’ll Teach You Cree By sharing with us the untranslatable aspects of Cree culture, Scofield immerses the reader with the sensorial experiences that deepen the bonds of community. Low Tide on Grand Pré The setting sun gives rise to a treasured memory of Grand Pré in this somber, rhythmic poem. Blank Sonnet Set in Halifax of the 1930s, this sensual, inebriated love poem plays with the sonnet form. The Lonely Land In this free verse poem, snapshots of a wild landscape show that beauty and conflict are not mutually exclusive — and that one may be derived from the other. fluorine Rita Wong uncovers the poisons in everyday life to teach us about our relationship to the natural world. Reluctance Even after you’ve jumped all the fences, climbed all the hills, and looked at the world, it can be hard to accept how you feel… Two Words: A Wedding bpNichol presents life as a river of ever-changing words and asks us to step in. susiya Music binds and refreshes community Common Magic Do you ever wonder how anything gets done when we’re all swirling in our own galaxies of thought and experience? This poem does too. Application Form Identity is elusive. Maybe it doesn’t exist at all. I saw a perfect tree today Lillian Allen praises the rampant diversity of trees in Northern Ontario and asks us to see perfection in difference. The Swimmer’s Moment Will you choose to observe from the rim of the whirlpool, or its centre? An English Speaking Doctor Translates the Concerns of his Patient with Google/Un Docteur Anglophone Traduit Les Inquiétudes De Son Patient Avec Google This bilingual poem expresses the limitations of understanding across languages when experiences become lost in translation. I Lost My Talk How can you speak your deepest truth in a language that doesn’t understand you? Five Postcards from Jericho Postcards to regret, to time, to anyone at all Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next › Next page Last » Last page Language English