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Anonymous (any author that has published anonymously)
Bethany is the pen name for a local writer. She loves living near the ocean, and reading romance novels. She is trying to write some. Meanwhile she reviews them and otherwise explores the genre at http://bethanyroseartin.com/.
- Scatterbrained
- Advice from a Warrior Queen
- Physics of Falling in Love
- Latitude and Longitude
- Shifting
- Astronomical
- Delirium
- Salt-Blooded
- Deep Waters
- Navigation
- Objection
- Regarding Bananas
- Paradise
- Valiant
- Letter of Eviction
- Blues
- Tomorrow
- Horizon
- Wild
- Whispers
- As Many Words
- Epic
- Choices
- pride’s cloak
- Hot Summer Days
- magnolia blossoms
- the inspiration
- Two Gals
- Two Gals – 1
- traveling
- winter nights
- the night
- girl in white and blue dress
- deep city day-dreaming
- The Roar of War
- Icicles
- Girl With Dog
- The Great Debate
- The Organist’s Cat
- Last Garden Crops
- Dazzling Halifax 100 Years Ago
- The Trials of Leto
- To The Further Reaches (Pt 3)
- To the Further Reaches (Pt 2)
- To the Further Reaches
- Asterisk
- Oh! To Be Irish
- Uncertain March
- ‘Tis the Rain
- ‘Tis the Wind
- As I Take My Leave Of You (to my soul mate on passing)
- Roe Deer
- Grief
- Fore-Fathers
- Rapscallion
- Port of Shadows
- Treasure
- Margins of Sand
- Book
- Hard Drive
- Mother’s Against Procreation
- October; Mardi Gras
- Summer’s End
- Plethora
Dorothyanne lives on the Dark Side, where her soul feels at home. She writes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and will tell all if you buy her more than one beer. You can read her musings at http://dorothyanneb.com or her whines about living with MS at dabble58.blogspot.com
- An unwelcome package
- Gloomily Ruminating On the Day Ahead, or waking to an email saying I have been rejected
- Learning again
- Post-modern living in sin
- Put together
Janet was born in Halifax, and spent most of her life here. After a career in accounting, a choice necessitated by the need to eat, she is now free to pursue her love of poetry, and for the last three years, to study English Literature at Dalhousie.
- December 6th 1917
- Last Gift
- Earthworm
- Rituals
- Age of Bronze
- Dream Redux
- Not Welcome
- Prejudice
- Sunset
- Bosom Buddies
- Homecoming
- Haikus For Spring
- You Can’t See Me
- The Dance
- Love
- Philomela
- Saved By Books
- Haiku For October
- The Hat
- The Cruelest Month
- Just Looking?
- Bad Habit
- Another Dream
- For Spring – # 1
- For Spring (#2)
- Memories of Liana
- Downtown
- Granite
- Family Reunion
- Who Am I?
- Rain in the City
Laurie Burns is an English as additional language teacher to immigrants, literacy volunteer and voracious writer and reader living in Halifax.
- The Belly of the Monster
- Machismo
- Crater
- The Sound and the Fury
- Elegy for Trump’s Father
- Harm Reduction
- Belong To Any Church
- Little Accomplishments
- Consigned to Oblivion
- Fly
- Airport
- I know it
- Storm & Shelter
- Magnets
- The Day the Dead Walk
- Nothing
- On the Field
- The one place
- Alone in the rain
Jasmine Chater is a teacher living in Bedford, Nova Scotia. She completed both her English and education degree at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has published poems in local and online journals. She enjoys the poets of the modernist movement such as Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens. Jasmine believes it is vital to make creative expression a central part of the classroom.
- How Would You Like Your Falafel?
- Shawarma
- Cedrus Libani
- Twelve Inch TV
- Amy
- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- 49
- Purely
- A Storm of Moth White Wings
- Starlit Mystique
- My Father’s Eyes
- Indefinite Wake
- Bond
- Saoirse
- Alone in Antigonish
- A dull place
- Ephemeris
- Plexus
- White Balloon
Catherine Contento
Jayne Cook (also published under Jayne Reilly)
Tim is a technical writer, author of fiction and non-fiction, and freelance editor. He studies film classification systems, has a weakness for limericks, and is a firm believer in the Oxford comma. More at www.covell.ca.
- Ferrying
- Cleaning the Mall
- The Shutter Opens
- Damp Days
- Sometimes at Night
- Thoughts on the Opening of Yet Another Gourmet Burger Emporium
- Gentle
- Spring Garden Road Walks
- Winter Walk
- Public Gardens At Night
- Night Shift
Matthew de Lacey Davidson is the author of two poetry collections and a play in verse. In addition, he is a composer and pianist and has released 12 compact discs. His poetry and short stories have been published by Grammateion, and the online literary journal, Danse Macabre; music analyses by SCI; cartoons and reviews by TOM Magazine; and cartoons by Canadian Science News. He has written the music, libretto, and lyrics for a chamber opera, The Singing Lesson, based on three short stories by New Zealand author, Katherine Mansfield. He lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, with his wife, Shayna, and a plethora of Siamese and Tonkinese cats.
You can learn more about Matthew at his website: https://matthewdelaceydavidson.wordpress.com/about/
Carrie Deleskie (also published under Carrie MacDonald)
- Gage Park
- Aslant
- Barn Swallow
- Deflection
- Cycle Path
- Between The Lines
- Dreadnought
- Smidgen Of This
- Dance of the Giraffe
- scissorbill
- Alluvial
- Dangling
- Blizzard Meditation
- Fanfare for Fall
- Vexed by Words
- Wild Blackberries
- Haiku As Tapas
- Samba to Salsa
- Crone’s Job Hunt
- Bread Sacrifice
- Remains of the Sabbath
- Hot Night Jazz
Writing poems is my hobby. Before I came to Canada, I wrote Chinese and Japanese poetry. When I arrived in Halifax, I started writing English poems, and I have written over 100. Perhaps you wonder why I like writing English poems. A story that happened in Halifax caused me think about writing English poems.
One day when I finished my shift, on way home, I saw a lot of people gathering at a bus stop. I heard noise come from there, so I forced my way into the crowd. I saw two birds: one is dead, and the other one is crying and pecking at its partner. When I saw this scenario there was one word in my mind—Life! As well, as I thought of a poem that I read it before, The Vantage Point, by Robert Frost. I remembered the last sentence of Frost’s: “I look into the crater of the ant.”
How it is similar to the life between human and animal!
At that time I decided to write English poems. I felt I needed to use some way to express compassion in Canada. I wrote my poem: ”Life.” Now I am very happy that I can write some English poetry to express the life and enjoy my life in Canada.
I have published a book of poetry: Journey: Life is a Journey from A to Z
- Life Needs More Poetry
- A Song to Snow
- Snow Rain
- An Uninvited Guest
- Woke Up
- Memory
- A Special Love
- Life
- Journey
- Sun in Winter
- Shower
- The Door
- Independent Living
- Mercy
- Moonflowers, Baltimore
- Force 4
- FOOLS for a BABE
- Trawling
- Lifelight
- Dry Fall
- Listening at Writers’ Group
- All My Waxwings
- Rock Pool
Felicity, Colleen, Sam & Steve
Halifax born and raised poet, writer and artist. A woman with a free spirit and a heart of gold.
- Small Square Plastic Lettered Keys!
- How Often Has It Been Said?
- 2018
- Fame, More Fame, And Obscurity
- Conceit
- Acceptance Is All Right
- Maybe We Should Call Them Page Rivers!
- Nova Scotia Tartan
- Food Bank
- Identified Flying Subjects!
- Chalk Sandwich Board!
- Haiku
- Déjà Vu All Over Again!
- Lines On Being Out Of Focus
- An Origami Paper Plane
- Necessary Conditions
- Good Transactions
- Shakespearean Haiku
- The Same Story
- have a good time!
- Voice Lessons
- 4 Haiku
- Singing Chameleons
- Fun With Inertia
- Transformations
- Music And Lyrics And Videos
- Convergence
- Cinematic Snack Unseen
- Action And Hourglass
- Celebrity Compliment
- Fulfillment
- Breakfast Perspectives
- Lucky
- Security-Guard Brain
- Recalcitrance Of Thorny Lions
- O Trespass Sweetly Urged!
- Intersection Of Me & Them
- Good Food
I was born in a small town in Ontario. I grew up on a farm, and moved to Kitchener at 18 to attend Bible college. Two years later I married, raised three children. Five years ago I moved to Nova Scotia with family. I am 83 years old. I love my new province and its people.
- Growing Old
- For Sale
- Song
- Iona Cape Breton 1949
- Approaching Season
- Bountiful Table
- Seasons
- Untethered
- The Seed
Jennifer Graham is a Gadfly. She grew up writing letters to her Grandmother, and continues to pen and post one every day to anyone who gives her their mailing address! Her favourite author is Stephen King.”
- Peninsula
- Spring
- The Commons
- Sad Story
- Not On TV
- Calliope
- Haiku Foo
- Lizards
- In the Swordfish Pulpit
- Bats
- Bloomsday Muse
- Take a Number
- Fire and Ice
- The Boxer
- Vacant Eyes
- Life Lament
- Broken Promises
- The Faery Tree
- Dichotomy
- Serpentine
- Whimsy
- Barstool Ballerina
- Sea Song
- Crusader
- The Harvester
- Willow’s Wind
- Gin Fizz
- The Mill
- Diamond Tooth Trouble
- A Wishing Yarn
- Corporate Sports Cookies
- Lillian
- Abstinence
- Enigma
- Fall Walk
- Preacher
- Cinderella
- Spring Wind
- Fading Tulips
- Winter Morning
- Perseverance
- My Vine
- Storm
- Lilac’s Lust
- The Quondam States of Being
- Under the Grey Flow
- A Full Life’s Death
- The Road
- His True Love’s Dress
- Mount Helicon
- My Sisu
- Walking
- Oh Elenore
- To Bee a Flower
- The Stuff
- Same Rain
- On Wellington Street, Ottawa
- “My Round, Mr. Shelley”
- Hell
- Whatcha Gonna Do?
- On a Wednesday’s Night
- Perdition or Redemption?
- For Johann
- To The Writer
- There and Hear
- We
- Do I Must
- Those
- To The Ones
- AH HA
- Growing Old
- Almost a haiku
- When?
- Waking
- We’re Here Because…
- Tastes – Memory
- I see your morning face
- All is Vanity
- On seeing Chabas’ “September Morn”
- Reminiscences – Part 2
- Red Maples
- Reminiscences
- LOST
- Running
- Types
- Dusk
- (I)’m not there yet
- Rainbow on Loch Coruisk
- A Funny Walk
- Storm Stayed on Skye
- Elemental Sounds
- Following the Fallen
- (17S ÷ 3L) = 1H (X 3 = ?)
- Third Eye Wine
- Imagine the Truth
- Baby
- The Longest Shortest
- Squirrel
- Necessity’s Leash
- Still
- Time/Meaning
- soaring as true
- later, when we first met
- Firefly
- Beware
- 4 AM
- Trines on our side
- Where To
- Rainy Summer Night
- Explore
- Butterfly
- Starry Park
- Opening The Window
- In Camp Hill Cemetery
- A Star At Night
- poem may be monitored
- Despite Politics, Democracy
- Snowstorm Coming
- Real as the stakes
- Cost-cutter outsourcing
- Avian Samaritan
- Advocate’s counsel
- Ghost of the Valleys
- a kind of moss
- Woods in Twilight
- A winter scene
- You come in the night.
- Magic Jars of Chickpeas
- The Saw Bug’s Toil
- Endless winter
- Midwinter
- Beautiful Horses
- Under a Blood Moon
I live facing Halifax Harbour, with a 180 degree view of sea, sky and sheer beauty in all seasons. Since I can barely take my eyes from the seven-foot windows I write Haiku.
- The Shark
- Flying Fish?
- The Squid
- Winter, To a Middle Aged Man
- Broccoli and Brussels Sprouts
- Starfish, why?
- The Octopi
- It is OK
- A Good Intention
- Embracing the Child
- Joyful Regret…
- It’s the least I can do…
- You Bet
- Words of faith…
- one down and not OK
Erica has lived in Halifax since the age of 10. Her poetry has appeared in Polar Expressions’ yearly anthologies since 2010. In 2014 and 2015, her poems received Honourable Mention.
- Passion
- What It Was Like
- What You Have Done
- This I Dream
- Antidote
- Breathing Below Surface
- Twilight
- Music
- The Bringer
- Message Received
- Insanity
- Winter by Vivaldi
- Safe
- This Tree
- Storm
- Meagher’s Grant
- One Definition of Irony
- Kings and Queens
- Steadfast Is Hope
- Running Out
- Futility
- Apparition
- The Last Time
- Dreamer
- Tending
- Sacred
- Other Poets
- Helvetia
- The Vision
- Time
- Earth
- Longing
- Insatiable Appetite
- Row Houses in the North End
- Pebble
- In Vein
- Revisiting Davis Inlet
- A Day In London
- Arctic Interlude
- Sweet Salt High Summer
I am a resident of Waverley, Nova Scotia. I have lived, studied (Acadia University), and worked in Nova Scotia all my life (except for that year in Australia as a Rotary Exchange Student). I have had the good fortune to travel and love that food so quickly brings us together in so many ways. I am an amateur poet, cook, and photographer and have learned so much from my three sons, now young men.
Some experiences I’ve had: A Canadian Olympic Torch runner in 1988 (with a friend) & 2010 who has run the tracks at Ancient Delphi, Ancient Olympia and the Modern Olympic track in Athens, Greece; climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt; sailed in a hot air balloon over the Serengeti in Kenya; and jumped from a perfectly good airplane in Coldbrook, Nova Scotia.
- wii r
- The Number of Truth
- Manifest Destiny
- Pained
- Vexed
- goose (ed)
- a parade of late May
- blue accrue(ing)
- an oddity for me
- Lelantos’ kin
- evanescent bearing
- in Pluto’s realm
- in April at the library
- May 28
- the locusts
- In the time of rhododendron
- The Shore, Cape D’or
- February
- CPAP
- a singular lunch
- Conflagration
- Abenaki Myth
- Passion Pending
- Susurrant Soliloquy
- Red-winged Blackbird
- awb
- for the Irish in me
- this Amherst March
- Kiwi
Originally from London, Ontario, Annick MacAskill currently lives and writes in Halifax. Her poems have appeared in Prism, Versal, Room, The Fiddlehead, Arc, and other journals. Her writing has been longlisted for the CBC’s Canada Writes Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has a début collection forthcoming in the spring of 2018 (Gaspereau Press).
I am a writer who has spent about 15 years helping many people deal with depression. I use the library for theory and the city as a classroom. Philosophy and psychology are my interests. Still one to speak with concern and encouragement to others. Hoping my writing can bring inspiration to anyone who reads it.
- All By Occurrence
- Live It Up
- Spread Your Wings
- Time Will Tell
- Sight to See
- Here to There
- Tune the Heart
- Led By Love
- By Nature’s Request
- Self Incarceration
- Christmas
- Faith at the Helm
- Something To Be
- The Little Voice
- All May Not Agree
- When You Reach a Certain Age
- 100 Years
- A Cobbler of Words
- A Father’s Memories
- The Word Came Down
- It’s Really Quite Easy To See
- Oh What a Tangled Web
- DNA
- Avro Arrow
- Rambling, Rough-shod Rhyme
- Mr. Prime Minister
- Ode to My Granddaughter
- Greed
- The Working Class Rant
- An Old-Time Farmer
- Farming Is A Business
- Food
Alexander J. MacIsaac (also published as Henry Stevens)
Catherine A. MacKenzie escapes from her mundane world by writing poems and short fiction. Although she writes all genres, she often veers toward the dark and death, composing fiction most women can relate to. Though, at first reading, her stories may appear bizarre, they are so ominously real that one wonders what lives hidden within her mind. Cathy has been published in various print and online publications. She has also self-published several poetry and short story collections, available as e-books and in print on Amazon and Smashwords.
Cathy also paints, pastels being her favourite medium and her grandchildren her favourite subjects. She lives with her husband in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The couple winters in Ajijic, Mexico, where her works have appeared in local publications.
Visit Cathy’s website at www.writingwicket.wordpress.com to discover more about this author and her books.
- Trickledown
- see through
- Betrayed
- a better way
- Alice Has Come Home
- mirrors
- Life’s Progress
- Clarity
- Youth and Old Men
- in concert
- posting
- cuddy in the storm
- softly
- it’s not easy
- I Hear a Voice
- Teardrops
- sharing words
- quartets
- voting Canadian style
- litterbug.s m. i. a.
- sensorPINK@rock.3
- I.C.U. i.e. luv hrtz
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circlecircus of c0nspiracies - minke
- Why is the sky blue?
- birdbrains
- uber.girl
- o r i g a m ! 6 5 0
- when Mommy leaves the kitchen
- metaphysical
- outta space
- sweep clean sweep
- Clank That Cosmos
Lorie Ann Morris (also published as Lorie Morris)
- New Year
- The Dreamers
- Believe
- Leader
- Breath of Fresh Air
- Kind Eyes
- Smile
- Stay
- Country
- Dream
- Gone
- When
- LOVE
- Once
- Fear
- Running
- Truth
- Sorry
- Follow
- Cats
- Real
- Fight
- Open Heart
- Illness
- Living with MS
- War
- Malcolm X
Ben Mosher is an artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mosher is Informed by interests in digital and mechanical modes of communication, with an appreciation for written and visual forms of everyday poetic language. These concerns have directed works in micro-communication systems coupled with intuitive and meditative processes of creation.
- A Fleeting Moment…
- The Fundamental Orient
- The Human Heart
- Lest
- The Paranoid Immigrant
- Anybody & Bumbling Bees
- Remembrance!
- Sorely Scored
- Graveyard Within.
Writer, humanist, professional daydreamer and music lover. Everything else just pays the bills. Visit: http://thepaperteapot.blogspot.ca for further musings.
- Haunted Basement
- She
- back/flash
- Commute
- De Profundus
- Caught In The Act
- All We Had
- All the Poets in Heaven
- SoCal Rescue
- Let Yourself Be
- The Smell of Books in Love
- Rock Ranger
- Mid-Sentence
- From You I Return New
- Aubade
- The Better Love
- Mash Up
- Feet Of Clay
- Lights, Camera
- His Eyes Rhyme
- Nothing Lasts
- Sobriquet (for JW)
- Fear of Heights
- Keep on Dreaming
- My Silent Night
- Crumbling
- To Choose or Not to Choose
- Sail
- Let’s Last
- To Be a Child
- Nature’s Cry
- Self-Audit
- Unaware
- Within Me
- Cruise Ship
- World Peace
- Daydreaming
- Eye for an Eye
- Lord Have Mercy
- Maven Mission
- Heaven and Paradise
- Living by the gun
- Wine Magic
- Democracy
- The War of Good and Evil
- Love and Hate
- Halifax Waterfront
- The World Crisis
- The Earth Says
- Fruitless Tree
- Miracle
- Seascape Dream
- Mish Mash
- Echoes of Sad
- Origami Breezes
- Last Summer’s Rose
- Trout Pond
- The Funeral Boat
- Ravenous Tears
- Farm Memories
- Home Grown Sadness
- You make a better window
- Ocean My Mother
- Plunge Into the Well of Night
- Everything Becoming Inside
- Day & Night in Kandahar
- Love of Place
- Messages from Tufts Cove
- Near-Constant Rain
- Varieties of Missing You
- Things You Were Right About
- Just Call Me Nostradamus (Pt 1)
- Paradise(dox)
- Opposition
- Subtle Observation
- Observation
- Anticipation
- El Dorado
Jayne Reilly (also published under Jayne Cook)
Visit Judi’s blog: https://weareallawakening.wordpress.com/about-judi/
Nathaniel S. Rounds writes from Halifax, Nova Scotia. His collection of poetry was recently published by Feline and Nothingness Press, and can be read here: http://bit.ly/2ce3gG8
- Last Letter Found
- Ruth
- The Ache / Shechita
- Horse Wisdom
- Courtly Love
- Pocket Cruiser (Weeping)
- Travels by Land and Air
- So Much Glass.
Ron Stansfield is a transplanted prairie person now living “upshore” in Port Hilford. He takes his inspiration from the open ocean which he swears looks just like the waving wheat fields back home. He writes in all genres and is currently working on a book of short stories.
Henry Stevens (also published as Alexander MacIsaac)
- A Knight Stung by the Bee
- If Walls Could Talk
- Trapped Within a Tear
- The Flowers in the Garden
- As Time Passes
- Indignation
Mary Ellen Sullivan grew up on a farm outside Guelph, Ontario, and now lives in Halifax. She is a regular contributor to Open Heart Forgery and is included in Open Heart Forgery: Year One Anthology. She has compiled five annual issues of Open Heart Farming, a free collection of farm and food-centric poems by Nova Scotia poets. Mary Ellen writes the Open Heart Farming blog http://maryellensullivanblog.tumblr.com/
- Touch
- Finding Grace in Aisle Five
- An Anxious Beauty
- Grey Day
- 14 Things that Nourish Nova Scotia
- Home Invasion
- The Cycling of Seeds
- Seasonal Bites
- Mantle of Spruce
- A Quiet Democracy
- City Suitor
- Stupid Moves
- Wild Flowers for Jack
- A Good Drunk
- Bottled Up
- Giving
- Groundhog Hole
- A Saint for the Farmers
- Alfalfa Meditation
- Life is a Bowl of Cherries
- Begin Again
- Paging Cohen
- No Lesson in Botany
- Touching Sky
- Hisa at Hundred
- A Thousand Lilacs
- Sonsy
- Brag Talk
- Sisterhood
- Tree of Life
- Scrabble Song
- Velocity of Change
- Metamorphosis
- The Parade
- Winged Words
- Kotodama
- Reading
- My Friend
- Plover’s Prayer
- Reply
- Managing Transgressive
- Arriving
- Trail
- Wall of Hope
- The Spirit of Life
- The Undisclosed Fear
- She’s got the fire
- Party rocks
- Sticks and Stones
- 6am sickness
- The Tide Recedes
- Losing Passions
- Old Ships
- Nervous first dates
- Mustard passed across the dinner table
- Morning Peace
- Patio Floor in the Evening
- Empty houses of lost friends
- Aspirations
- Towns of Pity
- Westside of Queens
- Warehouse
- what’s this feeling called
- 2504880046
- Escaping Inevitability
- Mad Dog
- Tarps
- Hall of the Chosen Dead
- Tapping the Void
- Ripple Effect
- V
- Grief
- Oozing
- Change
- So?
- Happy Hour Haiku
- Renting
- The Loss
- I Can Tell
- Red Sky
- Next to You
- Mulling
- Humanmas
- Dragon
- Carol
- La Repentir
- A Sacrifice Time
- It‘s loud across the forest
- Pass it on
- How Hot is August
- The Kissing Disease
- Aqualene
- Within the confines
- A Song Is Born
- I Am She
- common goal
- Untitled
- The River
- The Affair
- Corruptible Me
I’m originally from Toronto and moved here in 2003. I’ve been writing since I was 14 years old (for 61 years). I had a stroke about 7 years ago and writing helps my brain function. By forcing myself to commit to writing I feel I can improve that part of the brain that needs help. I live in Dartmouth with my son and his family. At this point in time I use a walker but I do like to get around.”
- The Low String (Three Brothers- part 1)
- The High String (Three Brothers- part 2)
- The Middle String (Three Brothers – part 3)
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