Poetry - For All Reasons

By Richard L. Provencher

Richard L. Provencher enjoys writing poetry. His view of the world and its place among the patches of life is a fascinating exercise. He likes to write about everything. Viewing behind the eyes that see and bark that covers the trees is his challenge. His work is a gift from God; as he believes all gifts are.

Richard lives in Truro, Nova Scotia and has done so for over 25 years. He was born and raised in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec where he lived 23 years. After 21 years in Ontario (all over) and marrying Esther in 1975, they moved to beautiful Nova Scotia; and resided first in Pictou.

Richard is happy to share his work and wishes you to enjoy it too. Combining his love for nature and contemporary issues is also a reflection of his style. At a young 70, and in spite of a stroke in 1999, he still enjoys the Muse. His mentor in 1965 was Toronto poet, Raymond Souster.

Richard and his wife, Esther,were married on March 27, 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario. They moved to Truro, NS in 1986. They have four children and five grandchildren.

 

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2 Miles and Lots of Dusty (2nd version)

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Dec 2013

The country road we biked on brought us to our own fishing bridge -- asphalt later taking the fun from skidding wheels on loose rock – not many cars...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

2 Miles of Dusty

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 17 May 2013

taking the fun out of skidding on loose rock
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

A Call for Screams

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 21 Jan 2014

I carry a cave within my heart where I go to sometimes hide I prefer not to hear the sound of my own screams, the think of it – they’re out to get me...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

A Canoe Evening

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 19 Jul 2014

I watch from a hull of listless movement -- how shoreline parades in silhouettes and stillness listens. My canoe pauses within contentment enables...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Circle of Completion

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 26 Dec 2013

Everyday is a revolution of ideas trails and trials -- a roundhouse of activity where shop and spend walk the aisles of my fertile imagination. In...
Autobiography
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A Circle of Movement

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 14 Jan 2014

Can you hear the music in a child’s touch? or clamour of wind across hills, winding through woods that provide a home for fur & fowl, hiss of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Feeder Feed

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 01 Jul 2014

My eye is keen on sparrow pecking grain in aroused frenzy, anxious to sing in unknown places -- “Please stay” I manage to whisper as one erupts...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

A Flag of Notions

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 13 Jan 2014

Try not look at the storm when children cry and wives wear a frown as thoughts fling my kite into the sky -- I wrestle with definition, capture...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

A Forest of Miracles

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 31 Mar 2013

My light at night patrols the smallest corner. And I’ll be watching you.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A Hint of Vapour

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

like a pole-lamp with curlicue twisting that demands a firm grip
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

A Knuckle Fist

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 03 Apr 2013

accepting visitors like a Whiskey jack with summer on the way
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Long Line 2

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Feb 2014

arose from early morning as mist whiffed across the flats, Alberta geese now whirling in swooping numbers through mushy November clouds a Royal...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

A Memory Away

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 11 Jul 2014

Mary arose from the shadows of her room --- a moon upon a slice of sky watcher in the night, brings tears followed by many more -- thinks of her man...
Romance
Poem
Certificate PG

A Merlin Hawk

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 22 Jan 2014

spears morning mist, hovers over sheep & donkeys hurls into a northerly wind. Exhausted wings draw the predator to early chirps. Red polls,...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Natural Frenzy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 24 Apr 2013

Descending splashes roar an approval during high tide’s rush
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A Page of Rage

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 30 Jul 2014

I heard liquor on his breath as he stumbled against the door key scratching the wood doorway painted with curses opening and falling down must be...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes
Cherry

A Plan of Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 13 Jun 2014

I inhabit a land where riches aren’t always right -- and the reward of selling reduces our many farms trading country folk for business suits and...
Rant
Poem
Certificate U

A Poem for Jesus

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 15 Feb 2014

Did Jesus wear socks in evenings of night-time chill blessed feet traveling miles and in need of rest? If I cannot earn wages for my keep I will work...
Humour
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

A Rose in Blossom

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 06 Jan 2014

A whisper above her wheel chair creates its own world. Later on, she’ll remember He was here, an hour, perhaps a week ago, Alzheimer’s digging roots...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

A Ruffed Grouse

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 03 Apr 2013

begins to drum erotic sounds
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Sound of Love

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 18 Jan 2014

During a spell of evening charm clouds chase daylight’s dim and a ruffed-grouse rustles feathers scooping wind for flight, lands heavily onto a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Source of Restive Pleasure

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Dec 2013

The sea was awash with foamy white as troughs of rage dipped among its swollen swells and the wind rode the sky like a tiger in its roar laying my...
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Poem
Certificate U

A Taste of Memory

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 19 Apr 2016

A Taste of Memory Mom gave me the spatula, a present from Christmas yesterday now the remains of chocolate icing clung to the rubber. Dad said its...
Other Non-fiction
Poem
Certificate U

A Taste of Spring

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

knees bent but not enough beneath the wind and its slap of force
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

A Time to Disappear

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Jun 2014

I return to this place where fish bite lovers quiver and your kindness is just right. In the slice of twilight sun evaporates into night stars return...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

A Turn for the Better

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 18 Apr 2013

My fingers shoot lightning bolts of love.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

A Vagabond

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 20 Jun 2014

In the shuffle of midnight rain a man seeks respite in the corner of a garbage bin --- the wooden kind, built to sustain leftovers from someone’s...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

A Visitation

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 27 Apr 2013

I can hear the stream crinkling nearby as it swerves around a bend.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

After The Wedding

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 12 Mar 2013

And I thank our good Lord for the opportunity to know someone like you.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Aha Aha

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 21 Apr 2013

Forsake fear and take the plunge
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Ahead of the Crowd

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 07 Jul 2014

Colour your world within the sight of a blind man -- comprehensive and creative thoughts attuned to life. He’s more than just a victim of...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Alone and Hungry

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 18 Mar 2013

Left him for another man seems ages ago.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Ambushed

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 23 May 2013

amid the ruin of crisis – families desperate for life caught in the swamp of despair
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

An Angel in Disguise

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 13 Jun 2014

With you by my side life creates a new chapter – it began with a vow tied by rainbows at each end of the bow and you the guest of honour. Years later...
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

An Eagle Watches

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 04 Aug 2014

with Rapture eyes above the plunge of sheer cliff perched on a bone-white tree against the green through misty glaze his gaze penetrates where valley...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

An Ode to Tolerance

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 28 Apr 2013

Inside the cloth is another side of character – avarice meanness and skullduggery
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

An Ordinary Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 30 Jun 2014

He’s not too flashy nor stands out in a crowd, no steroid muscles to compare with magazine images, buys clothes at the second hand store -- no fancy...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Another Day

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 10 Jan 2014

You inch up in the morning – grow breakfast shake the kids not time for snoozin’ school’s about stomp downstairs and stare at each other.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Are You

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 07 Feb 2014

Are you -- doing your homework grandson? Yes grandpa, but I’m having trouble finding an idea for a short poem. Well let me see. What about people and...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Arise in Glory

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 05 Apr 2013

and soon the scent of summer will parade its kilt of glory
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

As Wheels Turn

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 18 Feb 2014

the reaping can begin combines at the ready, but not before pastures received a planting as sparrows fed their young, accordion mouths awaiting turns...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

At the Wildlife Park

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 17 Mar 2013

now he’s fed some old cow no one wants – he who was used to the finest from African Plains.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Aunt Bobby

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

Last night the American spy was chasing an assassin –
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Baby Day

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 13 Jun 2014

The grass is soothing on baby’s feet, as mom and daddy hold an arm apiece in their yard one brilliant breeze of a day, and little Cindy giggles...
Romance
Poem
Certificate U

Battle Dress

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Feb 2014

This sop of weather determines to change the tune in my pain from sob to bob -- my name as urges of wind step forward without hesitation not knowing...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Be a Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 04 Apr 2013

I raised you to be tough to stand up to any problem.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Beyond Clarity

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 19 Jul 2014

White caps snooker the edge of my imagination as ocean features its grizzled countenance -- tap-dancing a fetish in the horrors of my mind nature is...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

Beyond Expectations

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 13 Mar 2013

wind chooses or not some erratic patterns in its breezy sweep
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Beyond Innocence

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 04 Mar 2014

We plant faith climbing a maple tree, one carefully placed foot at a time. It’s smudged in autumn colours as we seek a world view from the hilly side...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Beyond Innocence

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

and we saw people a lake with boats houses so high they reached the sky.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Beyond the Clarity

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 12 Jan 2014

White caps snooker the edge of my imagination as ocean features its grizzled countenance -- tappy-dancing is my fetish in the horrors of my mind...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Big Red

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 02 Apr 2013

a gash of life to the mundane
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Big Time Sally

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 07 Aug 2014

Biding her time she pulls at her hair like some inmate itchy with cooties, having spent too long in a 9 x 6 cell light staring in her eyes, remembers...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Blood + Guts = Memory

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 20 May 2013

In Dresden and Hamburg industries falling like dominoes
Biography
Story
Certificate PG

Bygone Days

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 22 Mar 2013

Arms flail ahead of me grasping at wisps prepared to wrestle
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Ceramics

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 23 Jan 2014

I bake you in the oven of my heart a form created in the wonder of your youth I can feel the hiss of your breath the excitement in your throbbing...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Chasing the Season

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 08 Dec 2013

Wrapped inside an avenue of ringing bells and colourful decorations a homeless man crosses his heart in pain heels worn thin each step groaning...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Climb Another, Rung

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 18 Feb 2014

Clings to the ladder, reaches for another rung a child mewling and puking in the words of good Shakespeare, cautious fingers grasping at this new...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Come Along and Fry

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 28 Dec 2013

The day sizzled, sinking its teeth of heat into unprotected flesh, as well as all the other bathers who felt a need to lose their minds upon sand...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Cowboy Singer

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Feb 2014

Cowboy singer – where were you when I was so young and lived the songs you now sing -- the ones about growing up sad like me being picked last for a...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Crow

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 12 Dec 2013

all you want, silhouette of darkness chanting your exploits from the peak of my next door neighbour’s house. If only you could talk, what tales to...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Crow in a Snow Storm

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 17 Mar 2013

Oblivious to the falling he preens himself on a branch protected by an elm
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Dad Come Home

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 08 Jan 2014

Mom woke us up one hurried day in 1954 was your father here last night she dared ask since arriving from her waitress midnight shift guess not we...
Biography
Poem
Certificate 12

Darkness

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 22 Mar 2013

nightly powers creep and they are not always symbols of peace
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Dear Me

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 25 Mar 2013

No tears today.
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Don’t Cry

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 20 May 2013

I tried baby even thought these legs can’t dance no more
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Draw Me a Better Life

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 09 Dec 2013

Show me an outline of a farm where people wish to live perhaps in a nectar of woods comforted by spruce, and a hill crowding an old barn -- a home...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Draw Me a Country Life

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 30 Jul 2014

Sketch me an outline of a farm where people want to live, with playhouse and outbuildings too, nestled in a nectar of woods, a hill crowding an old...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Dying and Passing Away

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Feb 2014

without saying goodbye to rabbit’s family, then simply doing it a fox ending his life badly. The day began with the sun wrestling for attention on...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Easy Fishing Time

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

The wind is a roar sky a hoot people fanning themselves against the horde hands making signals get away, and please don't bite you nasty mosquitoes...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

EveryDay Illusion

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 19 Jan 2014

He places himself on a park bench watches a squirrel scurry by, clouds tumble in the sky picks at his tooth and hears a cry children playing on...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Everyone Should Know

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 20 Jan 2014

you care about families sharing water with animals who abuse their privileges and ladies walking baked land in bare feet, pots overhead from a well...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Feathery Frustrations

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 20 Feb 2014

On my backyard porch I can see a private aviary, with birds of various descriptions small and large ones not really favouring pigeons poking remains...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Fever in the Water 2

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 20 Feb 2014

the lake in a landscape of swirling tradition with currents in rushing mode winds along for a ride -- ducks rapid-fire fluttering after a restful...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Flag of Notions

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 19 Jul 2014

Try not look at the storm where children cry and wives wear a frown thoughts flinging my kite into the sky -- I wrestle with explanations, capture...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

For All Reasons

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 18 Jun 2014

When tears arrive sun still shines, and rainbow comes this way. That’s life, stress within a glow -- and we can survive.
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

For My Dad

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 11 May 2013

-- a family waiting in the quietness of rooms soon crackling with tension. Daddy’s home --
Biography
Story
Certificate PG

For Selwyn

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 13 Dec 2013

Saw him quiet in the corner of his train seat just a cough once in awhile a burp now and then. The next day I looked beyond his shuffle the way he...
Biography
Humour
Poem
Certificate PG

For Want of Friendship

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 07 Apr 2013

He emits hollow coah-cooo-cooo-coo’s which draw us into a world of searching
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Foster Boy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 27 Mar 2013

You did the best with the guts within your thin frame into the fire of Juvenile Court
Autobiography
Certificate PG

From Here to There

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 15 Feb 2014

Inside our world of rings a balance must endure of past and present generational flow where an earthly contrast takes us to the brink. The lives of...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Full of Intentions

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 21 Feb 2014

I hurl a spear of influence-wresting skills from my oppressors; it has a launch capacity of 60 feet with an accuracy penetrating to the bone I can...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

Ghosts of Evermore

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 10 Apr 2013

visions of blood
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Going Crazy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 08 May 2013

then turning around a bear salivating for a piece of flesh---mine
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Grinch

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Jun 2014

I didn’t start out to be like me mean-spirited, ugly like a llama with pinched up face high forehead and rowboat body. My mother hoped I would be...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Groundhog Morning

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 08 Dec 2013

Heavy dew on the grass meant sandals unable to fend off moisture -- each blade a rivulet overcoming bare feet watching with one eye closed a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Have Some Whine

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 01 May 2013

hanging onto sadness from muddy days long gone by.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

He Grew Up in Fire

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 28 Feb 2013

flames breathed smoke trees like candles birds falling from sky
Nature
Certificate U

He Went Down

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 10 Feb 2014

He went down -- like a bowl of screams as mosquitoes slurped on their latest dish sometime soon the horror will diminish feet promise purchase as...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

He's a New Suit

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 23 Jun 2014

kind of guy, an up-and-comer wearing his Sears apparel well, creases just right knows how to match colours -- a great tie, expensive shoes and socks...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Hint of Twilight

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 03 Aug 2014

Salient on evening’s scene twilight does not curl like a snake, it resonates in parallels two directional streams in layers --- colour coming and...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Hold Back the Tears

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 13 May 2013

when you sit on the sideline of life watching the world go by
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

How Good

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 30 Dec 2013

it is to lay in the snow creating angels, each of us trying to have flawless wings which means we should be perfect too and impress momma; she who...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

I Am a Castaway in the Sky

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 25 Jun 2014

Nightfall scans the landscape where brush shimmers from a flashlight in the sky, and rocky shore reflects nature’s gleaming -- forest at night is...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I Am a Music Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 20 Mar 2013

a tickle of breathe that swoops from you to me
Miscellaneous
Certificate PG

I Am the Voice

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 05 Mar 2013

a splotch of grease riding his sweaty shirt headlights now peering off to work
Journal
Certificate U

I Can See You

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 19 Mar 2013

droplets as bubbles of hope --
Love
Certificate U

I Met

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 18 Mar 2013

without wings and other rules to share
Miscellaneous
Certificate U

I Need You

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 14 Jul 2014

I need you by design the joy of your lips, kisses sweet as cherry wine -- can’t believe you’re mine.
Romance
Poem
Certificate PG

I Paint the World

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 23 Feb 2014

I paint the world on a stick -- the good and bad of it how it’s used – to blow away a protestor? Seek friendship through an offering of protection?...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

I See

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Feb 2014

through my apartment window: roiling clouds highlight the flow of a December storm, snow sweeping over leftover leaves. It seems just yesterday...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

I Sing of Sorrow

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 30 Mar 2013

and sooner than later I too will rekindle a joy
Nature
Certificate U
Cherry

I Was Cast Into The Sky

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 18 Dec 2013

Sundown scans the landscape brush shimmering rocky shore a reflection of nature’s gleam the woods at night never call it sleeping. Today’s struggle...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

In One Small Way

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 24 Jun 2014

Music is like a prayer – it ascends descends and lets our hearts know when to cry --- I know I do. When time climbs a mountain it too sings of past...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

In Tears and Sentiment

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 25 Jun 2014

My heart girds the anguish of TV news -- Taliban turmoil in Afghanistan rebels within Sudan, terrorists on Egyptian soil and suicide bombings among...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG

In the Distance of Space

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

An outline of left-behind trees reveal larger timber has been harvested for paper-plates and newspaper sheets, front-end loaders bringing their prize...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Inside the Rage

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 16 Jan 2014

I heard the liquor on his breath him stumbling into the door key scratching the wood cursing painting the doorway opening and falling down must be...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Jimmy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 27 Feb 2013

loot to take home and upgrade the furniture
Biography
Certificate U
Cherry

Just Another Memory

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 05 Jul 2014

I shuttle along the road of life, a little slower in the leg-stretching thinking on busy times when a bicycle was king of the road, tires scraping a...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Layers of Season

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Mar 2014

The snow is falling so lightly -- and people are trapped in it above their boots covering thick socks. After melting -- feet soggy within moisture...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Leftovers

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 16 Jul 2014

I chased a $20 bill from my wallet the other day and went to the movies, Bruce Willis was on, my favourite action hero -- brought along some popcorn...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Like a Park

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 18 Dec 2013

Dexter cows are mooing in our pasture, a herd of them snacking on hay sloshing aside the slough where ducks gobble flotsam and six llamas raise...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Like a Rainbow

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 18 Dec 2013

I come and go like a hit and run feet scampering shirt flying sneakers smacking the asphalt sidewalk – a cheaper quality to protect town’s budget,...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Little Bras d'Or

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 12 Dec 2013

burn, zealous sun edge to edge …horizon’s view misty vapours slip along 1st appeared in White Wall Review Ryerson Literary Society, Toronto, ON
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Living Moments

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 12 Dec 2013

We’ve seen sunshine rise egg-yolk style coming to rest on our breakfast plates as we dreamt of journeys ahead, family and friends helping along the...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate U

Man in the Window

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 22 May 2013

Early morning feast of sun a day on the run -- children off to school
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Many Days

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

eyes squinting through branches adorned with pale colours
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Many Raindrops Ago

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 24 Jun 2014

April rain drops colder than the chill of an icicle in our return -- Collapsed under pastures of time our home was toppled from its strength creating...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Mining the Bin

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 13 Jan 2014

The garbage man is trucking again – lifting other people’s waste and broken toys. Backing to the bin of treats awaiting – perhaps a broken chair...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Misconceptions (revised)

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 25 Apr 2013

My lawn mower needs a little tune-up
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Mix-Match

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 14 Mar 2013

he knows girls find him awkward and not really understanding
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

More Than a Poem

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 05 Aug 2014

In love with a dream sloppy pants, farmer boots wearing socks on a day when mosquito bites do not make me happy. Some victims take a swig of gin but...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

More Than Chocolate

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 12 Jan 2014

Some snack for sustenance, others light up a gong show, or pursue gorgeous babes seeing life through discerning eyes is to harness the environment...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Morning Am

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 22 Mar 2013

Tell me. Is your daddy not the best person in the world?
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Moving On

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 01 May 2013

sister Robin probably sleeping away last night’s tears –
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

MS a Nasty Sort

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 29 Dec 2013

Met her in a cloud, cigarette smoke masking the pain of lost days – ache by ache, MS greedily taking and taking. Her stride weakening leg turned in...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

My Jesus

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 10 Mar 2013

He did such favours by me. My Jesus. The woods are like skin for His gifts
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Nightmare Alley

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 19 Feb 2014

The sky is blackness in fright except when I use a flashlight to chase away the night hearing old screams that used to scare but not this time...
Surreal
Poem
Certificate PG

Of the Night

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 24 Jun 2014

Arias triumph over starry nights as echoes in a boomerang of sound, blending one on one a cacophony of energy -- forest circling the lake. Against...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Old Time Wagon Ruts

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 01 Mar 2014

overcame a hilly climb, deep in the mud of ancient days -- creating history not a thought to occupy minds, left early this misty morning seeking...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Older Folks Do Cry Too

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 03 Mar 2014

From our Seniors' building window I see busy families in the next apartment hauling out their kids. One by one they race to the car, and the smallest...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Once Ambushed

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 18 Feb 2014

by Katrina’s wind and rain the dead departed amid the ruin of crisis---families desperate for life caught in the swamp of despair and through the...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG

One Ruffed Grouse

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 20 Dec 2013

alone -- unafraid begins to strut the right stuff head bobbing in agreement feathers quiver with erotic sounds enjoys staccato of fluttering wings...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

One Snowshoe

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

muscles tuned -- exertion under the sun
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Ontario North Country '68

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

White caps pouncing paddles piercing each tiny rivulet dancing canoes, each bobbing swiftly into the narrows trees outlined, green branches waving...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 09 Dec 2013

Dockside is sprinkled with the smell of herring-bait and lobster boats continue to belch wood-slatted traps at harbour’s edge, stacked with...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Prayer – For a Very Dear Sister - Susan

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 24 Feb 2013

Allow her troubled limbs a recovery which will astound those who do not believe in the power of prayer, and agree with those who do.
Miscellaneous
Other
Certificate U

Presenting Foster Boy

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 14 Dec 2013

You did your best with little interest in your well-being money for your keep the common denominator, as you fear-stepped from one set of...
Biography
Poem
Certificate 12

Product of an Earlier Time

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 13 Dec 2013

We were only kids heading out to fulfill a dream – our first tree snow boot tracks erasing the smooth of fallen snow as we trudged single-file noting...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Rabbit Legs

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 16 Mar 2013

He was very brave this large hare and not above showing off speed on a day the sun shone brightly
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Rabbit Legs

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 20 Dec 2013

chase life in the moonlight and rush against the chill of evening trails leaving smudges in the snow he is very brave this one and not above showing...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Reflections

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

I like the way you dance, the way you look at me.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Return from Somewhere

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 01 Mar 2013

In spite of the turmoil between us---a truce. Talking. Him visiting or staying this time?
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Settlers Passed This Way

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 06 Jan 2014

A tired-looking wagon trail overcame pasture’s ridge wheel ruts dug deeply in the mud of ancient days my footsteps following with adventure on my...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Shadow

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 04 Aug 2014

is asleep beneath one large spruce with drooping branches, while hares measure the density of banked snow -- mice shiver in anticipation. Wind...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Shall We, My Dear?

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 14 Jan 2014

I promised you a new life filled with wine and adventure ride along the Rhine, perhaps climbing Eiffel Tower’s strands, scudding a hand glider over...
Humour
Poem
Certificate U

She Favours Me

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 06 Apr 2013

I am a wimp without her smile
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

She Paints Kisses

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 06 Mar 2013

the land and its folly are subject to divisions of authority
Miscellaneous
Story
Certificate 12

Solstice of My Desires

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 08 Dec 2013

Watching a finch gives me hope beauty of yellow and white shines with patience one beak-peck at a time garners a black seed it senses my observing...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Someone to Talk to

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 06 Jul 2014

Place your age in a basket ‘cause there ain’t no more space to use --- you’ve already gathered up your share. I’ve seen sunshine and rain from early...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Strung Out on Love

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 26 Feb 2013

During those days of whine I did not remember when a baby’s bottom felt the newness of diaper
Love
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

That Old Farm

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

is buried under pastures of time where November winds are colder than icicle-whispers. This home of fallen timbers met the elements, night and day a...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

The Beak

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 24 Jan 2014

I’m not sure why his beak captured that name, perhaps because there is a chip in it. Our flock is full of gossip and I don’t like it -- all this talk...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

The Best of Intentions

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 26 Jul 2014

A long walk to the mine fills him with unease knowing what awaits, checking in among the line of shuffling men tired from the day before still...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

The Changing Guard

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 16 Dec 2013

Sunlight sweeps a blast of bright across grassy lawns before rainbows disappear into the night riding on a cavalcade of iridescent light trembling...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Cloud

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 07 Feb 2014

The Cloud -- is composed of repose with thoughts I lean upon. A place of satire in tough moments. At times behold the glory within inspiration where...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Hartland Bridge

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 10 Dec 2013

is old and cranky, its spider-web design wood dehydrated. An historic memory unvarnished, casting a long shadow over the St John River -- tourist...
Biography
Biography
Certificate U

The Journey

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 13 Mar 2013

The caterpillar is a slug of movement
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Lady in Red

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 08 Feb 2014

The Lady in red -- is back to the library again gives me a wink the kind that can chill a spine with goose bumps of love wore a parade of clothes for...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

The Last Mile

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 12 May 2013

minor surgeries – cataracts removed bunions explored arthritic pain not so pleasant
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Lateness

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 20 Dec 2013

of night does not prevent a letter from reaching its goal -- first insert into a postal box outlet, sound of lifting its cover overrides the squall...
Miscellaneous
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Outside of Living

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 12 Jun 2014

Through the dust of a cottage window I can smell lakeside’s musk, a world of compressed energy within the moisture canoe awaiting -- prow prepared to...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Pigeon Man

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 28 Feb 2013

He can easily be called an unknown man...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The Seagull

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 04 Mar 2013

One lone bird seeking flavour not just tossed tidbits like a corner crust of bread
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Squirrel

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 25 Mar 2013

hustle like a squirrel or float with serenity like a seagull
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Visit of a Thousand Smells

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 09 Dec 2013

brought us to another side of town -- years before ‘baled refuse’ and environment-protecting ‘cells’ became the standard where pal Eddie once lived...
Biography
Biography
Certificate U

The Way of Love 2

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 19 Jun 2014

We can share forever the charm of sun’s arise: its deliberate journey from midnight-lace to am high where squinty eyes scan roiling waves as distant...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Wolf

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 25 Feb 2013

a kaleidoscope of emotion and bravado
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Wonder of it All

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 10 May 2013

not afraid to pay the price lady from the other side of town high end skirt flashing
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

The Woods are Full of Tricks

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 04 Feb 2014

At our tent site prune juice caused me to lose my schnapps and looking around to clean the mess only sticks available in sizes used to beat the...
Humour
Poem
Certificate PG

Themes of Innocence

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 14 Apr 2013

A cat pounces on a mouse its squeal -- an act of surrender
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

They Are All Perfect

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 08 May 2013

and carry messages under sun’s heated smile
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

This and That

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 22 Jan 2014

I want to see you swim and overcome obstacles that threaten – a crying child parent too, separation not a delight wind hesitates knowing the power it...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

This Bridge

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 07 Mar 2013

old and cranky wood dehydrated historic memory unvarnished
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

This is My Land

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 08 Jul 2014

Sound carries aloft into the night distinctive as Aurora Borealis rising in crescendo from stage to stage a stairway to the stars as moments -- loud...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Three Sisters

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 06 Apr 2013

two sisters Bonita and Susan -- concerned loving and awaiting
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Time to Get Out of the Kitchen

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 05 Jan 2014

and into the face of the poor the impoverished -- those who feast on heaps of beans and hamburg and more beans those faces -- vacant without a vision...
Journal
Poem
Certificate PG

Today is Lazy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 20 Mar 2013

and birch looking flushed white with worry. The season is not according to plan --
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Today’s Journey

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 06 Mar 2013

MS has emasculated him—friend to me lover to his wife father to some
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Too Many Times

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 16 Dec 2013

I did not call you Dad when you were alive. After so many years regret still manifests -- all that boozing inherited from WW 11, a noose affecting...
Biography
Poem
Certificate 12

Too Much Too Soon

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 29 Jan 2014

I’ve been living in the backseat of your life where your smile was a beacon to my mind. Too much too soon and I did not appreciate why you loved me...
Love
Poem
Certificate U

Turning the Pages

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 21 Jan 2014

On your back dreaming dreams, life and events from this moment. The sun is warm on his chest after the swim; refreshing water bathed a wounded spirit...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

Two Are Better Than One

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Jun 2014

Scratching came calling at our front porch about the time of early morn as a sun smiled towards noon and I opened the door to view two lobsters...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Two Views and One Lasting

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 15 Jul 2014

Can the sun be bold and bright when Mid-East provides such strife? Bombs colouring scenery with a sky full of clouds that never seem to go away ---...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Up North

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 13 Mar 2013

one great push to Ontario’s frontier
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Water in a Pool

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 17 Jan 2014

avails for dry tongues. From the lightest breathe of moisture in a corner of the meadow a deer bends to drink; rejoice and when clouds herd once more...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Wayward Times

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 14 Dec 2013

During life’s journey we often head into troubled waters, drifting as a canoe wind influencing direction. The craftsmanship of its hull endures...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

We are All of Us

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 20 Jan 2014

We are such characters in the recipe of life some with inhibitions, others outward in frowns of celebration the way we talk the way we dress . From...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

We Are Waiting

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 12 Mar 2013

where tales and sly pussycats await a scratching under furry-chins children expecting tousled heads
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

We’re Waiting

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 08 Mar 2013

caring heart and something else – a promise
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

What Now Momma?

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 13 Jan 2014

Who’s that smoking in the shade? Where the hurt of early morning blows mean another day in pain -- off work today that man and he ain’t going to...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

When Feathers Collide

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 15 Dec 2013

Bundles of feathery-blackbirds throw fantasy into a frenzy stubbornness driving them to feeders in a staccato of determination nibbling the only...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

When I was a Kid

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 01 Aug 2014

At ground level we discovered before days of smooth asphalt riding bicycles on gravel roads was a destination for childhood and trying not to choke...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

When Slumber Prevails

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 27 Dec 2013

Perhaps it was the wind that gently opened my porch door and let me see the elements upon the landscape of my joy -- its hail of sleet across my brow...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

When Wheels Turn

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 16 May 2013

as sparrows feed their young -- accordion mouths awaiting turns for food
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

While Others Sleep

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 07 Jan 2014

fog murmurs a parade of kisses alongside hungry hills like a web without spiders upon mountain slides gathers in clusters as eagles dare encounter...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Wind

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 22 Apr 2013

Let the essence of soul admire His presence
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate U

Winter is Galloping

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 10 Dec 2013

into the West Coast – a clipboard of activity BC bound where grizzlies await winter-snooze. In the meantime they’re filling faces with Coho on the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Worth Living For

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 28 Jul 2014

Do you hear whispers of movement within my heart or the beat of a drum yet alert swaying from many twists, turning into events so long ago? Can you...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Yes I Can

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 06 Apr 2013

a wide smile a twinkle in the eye
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Yes – She Does

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 24 Mar 2013

I rode like a knight from Arthur days
Love
Poem
Certificate U

M-e-m-o-r-i-e-s

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 15 Jun 2020

During radio listening nights long ago Orphan Annie and other family programs such as I Love Lucy meant sharing pop corn giggling and a bowl of ice...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate PG

Momma

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 09 Jul 2020

kissed my bo-bo when I shared tears with her salving my woes a treat only mommas were able to do- as I grew older her wisdom carried me until revised...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

No Regrets

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Nothing must stamp upon the faith I bear. I must have no regrets nor sympathy for those forces which see my chinks to reform in scales of justice:...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Where

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 13 Aug 2020

there is a firestorm remains a life undisturbed a forest in a frenzy a fireman of the woods each with a mission- one to saturate with emotion the...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

I Have a Friend

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 22 Aug 2020

from long time ago called me one hard day Montreal distance – you really bad sick he asked knowing how tough I once was on hiking trails – brain...
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate PG

Agra in Northern India 2

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 23 Sep 2020

Children dash through Yamuna River shallows beside the Taj Mahal, young legs more like spider appendages skipping through splashes in the morning of...
Travel
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes

Cleaner - County Building

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 27 Sep 2020

He comes each afternoon mop in hand and a warm bucket of water nicely lathered uses the old ways to keep our floors spotless – gives them a tired...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

An Australian View

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 14 Oct 2020

A wall of pain roasted hundreds of Koalas huddled inside their last moments. A 2019 fire-storm ravaged and savaged them as they shuffled within...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Do You Remember

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 15 Nov 2020

when I first saw you working at the restaurant and I had come in with another and remember how she was miffed I was looking at you- I remember the...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG

That Lady

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 17 Nov 2020

in the chair is my rocking mom who once was Commander-in-Chief of our family and still driven as a person of great respect: always teaching us proper...
Love
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Momma - Remember?

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 02 Dec 2020

The morning coming home from waitressing and your band of monkeys stirring- you chased us to the bedroom with fly-swatter swings trying to make a...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

That Lady

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 04 Dec 2020

in the rocking chair is mom- used to be the Commander-in-Chief over us as we developed quicker than tadpoles. Going fishing again? she’d ask don’t...
Biography
Poem
Certificate U

Shimmer

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 13 Dec 2020

I don’t want to share my life in shades of grey but show up at the ball park with surging fire as an evening delight shimmering in parallel strips...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Mommy's Boy

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 20 Dec 2020

In a happy moment the little boy did a pirouette on the yard of his recreation past-time in front of mom and her little man brought tears to her eyes...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

Fury on the Crests

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 16 Jan 2021

of Northumberland Strait- the Atlantic ocean rages with pelting wind and frothing against a lobster boat’s hull newly painted sending it into a spin...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I Cannot Explain

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 02 Feb 2021

through words the beauty of this moment how I must stand on both feet as I gaze at two deer- mother and child one needing one giving her fondness as...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Ground

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 11 Feb 2021

is a long-time raining down slopes of valleys and sheer- lasting beyond the advent of Vikings who came then disappeared into historical moments of...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

The Wind

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 14 Mar 2021

is like a rattlesnake alert in the daytime and subdued at night yet within shadows it can arrive without fanfare or it strikes with delight- without...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Not So Long Ago

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 11 Apr 2021

that tree was flavoured with rainbow colours – an enchanting view of a Christmas season now gone by – once a haven for glee from happy children...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Wild in the Night-Light

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 26 Apr 2021

Where beasts come alive in the mettle of their existence shrieking and howling after an evening of spooky delight. They come as creatures hungry to...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Over the Hill

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 23 May 2021

We launched into the edge of Friday’s last evening light at the onset of our tenting plans- after a restful sleep in our canoes upon a small lake...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Sunny Days

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 05 Jul 2021

I want the sun to gobsmack me on the arm not just scoot across each section of skin – not cool if my tan shows up in different shades.
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

An Encounter With Self

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 24 Jul 2021

I chase fireflies as eye-light changes to dim and loons begin to trill with delight- As I lay in my tent the sky is full of dark echoes. Nature earns...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Sleepy Time

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 25 Aug 2021

I spy upon a forest with such delight – especially during its finest showing – at twilight colours coating their attire with pluck and style in a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

The Smell

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 04 Sep 2021

The Smell of animal-like fear from a thunderous clap and I shaking and shouting in ecstasy pointing to the sky- its icicle spear of energy drawing my...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

As I Sit

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 11 Sep 2021

As I Sit and contemplate at my favorite space upon a fallen log older than time scarred beyond recognition in a nearby forest full of shared dreams...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

October

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 08 Oct 2021

October as in a basket of Maple leaves turning red as they sparkle from the sun. In their slow climb up a Maple tree located in a town called Truro...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Son of a Deer

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 21 Oct 2021

A first child full of pride his long legs easy in stride- keeping up to mother not so hard on trails & did not fail. He showed he was not just a...
Children's
Poem
Certificate U

A Storm of Blue Jays

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 24 Nov 2021

A Storm of Blue Jays escaped ahead of the early signs of an oncoming hurricane style rain storm– worst in this century an announcer gasped. Their...
Drama
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Walk With Me

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 14 Feb 2022

Sunshine chased me from a corner of a deserted alley and shadows swept aside for me into the open air where critical thoughts & sad memories turn...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Dominion

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 09 Apr 2022

Celestial body- O the tales you would love to retell about brilliance on maiden shelves of airflow as comets dare atmosphere during a falling flight...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

I Buried My

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 04 Jun 2022

face and cried so much goodness in this world too much sadness beneath the sky I hid my face & I cried.
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate PG

Dear Deer

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 30 Aug 2022

Fury & determination flight and ending: black & grey hairs flowed like thunder as flags of victory- a powerful wolf snaked through the forest...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Just a Kid

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 11 Sep 2022

September will replace conversations on weather – 29C today Phew and so glad for cool off on the horizon of changing times as reality boldly steps...
Spiritual
Poem
Certificate PG
Cherry

Green-Green

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 14 Sep 2022

saturates our forest stalwart trees closeted in great abundance birch is one specimen & carries an air of independence like a white candle or a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

i Wish

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 18 Oct 2022

I could swim in the ocean alongside a great big shark who knows how to prey and in my boldness believe the sea is full of living creatures to protect...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate PG

Tonight I Heard

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 26 Oct 2022

voices from my childhood as flashes in the night a sound of rain running feet – & cries of children playing hide & seek- no way did they need...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG
2 likes

Lonely is a Vagabond

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 18 Nov 2022

The whisper of mist inhales a musical sound that vibrates misery from a mourning dove. It combs back porches for dropped black seed & peanuts...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Hunting Without Apologies

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 25 Nov 2022

I saw the deer – two of them lingering alongside a woodsy tract of land one doe & one dappled child- a cute little thing little did he know this...
Nature
Poem
Certificate PG

Point of View

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 10 Dec 2022

I left the lighthouse & went down below for a close-up view & saw the sea face to face its beauty & romance searching for me.
Unclassified
Poem
Certificate U
Cherry

Windswept Serenade

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 15 Dec 2022

The raucous wind creates a shuffle of movement as it spawns a parade of roiling clouds sun & this new intruder clash for attention on a fresh...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

Everlasting

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 31 Dec 2022

As the sky descends into sluggish clouds causing a commotion at the edge of forest as blue jays are much more than cautious within resting nests- a...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Autonomous

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 16 Jan 2023

A horizon of soothing can be solemn yet stark as lightning bolts disrupting the darkness. I watch with delight for surprises in a life of mystic...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Oh-Oh

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 08 Feb 2023

I want to climb a lightning bolt & feel its sizzle or scare down a rainbow to seek out chests of gold or even ride a dream into the deep forest...
Fantasy
Poem
Certificate U

A Heavenly View

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 08 Mar 2023

Branches are curlicues pointing up from a majestic elm allowing energy to flow forcefully & birds delight in somersaults from limb to limb. Crows...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U

Knowledge in a Sling

By Richard L. Provencher on Sat, 18 Mar 2023

Floppy pants & sloppy-looking shirt wrong colour he sits on the chair as the Convention Master begins- he’s tired / hot & sticky squirms...
Miscellaneous
Poem
Certificate U

Crazy-Legs

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 19 Apr 2023

Crazy-Legs was an earned nick-name as a high school football star at seventeen ran like the wind quarterback carrier student girls loved him skinny...
Biography
Poem
Certificate PG

In the Balance of Time

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 26 Jul 2023

And from this ancient of an ancient woodsman cabin natural sounds revive the energy of ages past- a porcupine munching on a corner of wood nearby...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

A New Horizon

By Richard L. Provencher on Fri, 28 Jul 2023

We met morning’s light with sleepy in our eyes- a movement caught my attention as I leaned from my tent door- 3 AM early past was a deer on a pause...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes
Cherry

Another World

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 05 Sep 2023

It’s getting dark down and a fox sniffs a picture of stillness a bear lurches down the trail both cubs glued to her side her breath like a torch for...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

Summer's Last Weep

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 21 Sep 2023

Another sweep of wind throws all caution aside and flings bushels of fallen leaves in all-over directions. Time to clean house & prepare for new...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
2 likes
Cherry

Where is the Sun

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 24 Sep 2023

Where is the Sun that brought out Summer’s sparkle the same one which chased young swimmers across the dock and into a spectacle of placid water? Don...
Nature
Poem
Certificate U
1 likes

Grizzly Tragedy

By Richard L. Provencher on Mon, 02 Oct 2023

Just a few feet off-trail was all it was- he heard the snap in his ankle – falling across an avalanche of rock brought his hiking partner – spent...
Drama
Poem
Certificate PG
1 likes

Harvest is Golden

By Richard L. Provencher on Thu, 09 Nov 2023

The wheat fields are like a courtyard at play their stalks are ripe enough for the man to harvest. Golden in the wind firm in stature now bulked up...
Nature
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Blue-Jay Buddy

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 27 Dec 2023

His shriek-y voice is raucous – poignant in its delivery this outdoor star not only carries his sleek blue colours proudly emblazoned on his trim...
Nature
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Traffic Ordeal

By Richard L. Provencher on Sun, 07 Jan 2024

The night has driven too quickly snow fallen a concern for lousy drivers Halifax a good performance drive for heavy traffic 50 km in effect get that...
Miscellaneous
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A Field of Hugs

By Richard L. Provencher on Tue, 09 Jan 2024

‘Snow is water vapour frozen in the upper atmosphere and falling to earth in crystal form.’ (c) Collins Gage Canadian Early arrivals sprinkle from a...
Nature
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Cherry

Beginnings

By Richard L. Provencher on Wed, 17 Jan 2024

Joggins Nova Scotia presents layers of history finally uncovered within ancient rocky sheets of civilization as drawers in office settings. See the...
Nature
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