Category: Poetry

Rogue Row As I was recently looking back on the winter of my 68th (Sigh!) year I was feeling a tad down when my old buddy Jack O’Lantern came by. Lights up a room the minute he steps in. Kinda reminds me of the days with Bill and Old...

Jammed – positioned tightly between bodies or surfaces so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible. Jammed – caught between a rock and a hard place. I’ve written columns like that …! Taberduker! But, you won’t get “jammed” if’n you know that “in it’s class” means basically...

Oftentimes, whatever one is doing, one is just scratching the surface. And, often just after that surface is scratched, someone will come along to “clarify”! Example: Someone said they’d be soon pushing towards their “threescore years and ten” when it was pointed out that according to Psalm 90:10 they...

By: D.C. Butterfield A common expression when you want someone to calm down and rationalize is, “Keep your shirt on!”. Often used by me back in the days of dances at Riley Brook, Arthurette, Silver Slipper, Johnville and/or Glassville after an invitation to “C’mon outside!” over some local lassie....

New Brunswickers leave, Their homes today, With mouths to feed, And bills to pay What happened to our forestry? With great mills of paper and lumber! It built communities and brought prosperity, A future now encumbered Jobs grow scarce, Cuts are made, Economy downsize, Priorities weighed What happened to...

Keep in mind, that we must always beware of imitations. Kind of like comparing the Ricardian theory of rent (David Ricardo 1772-1823), also called the “economic rent” model, to agriculture’s modern “ecofallow system”. Never mind if’n you don’t “get it”! Like, there are some 800,000 “apps” one can download,...

Rogue Row It is true – you fail only if …! Well, I didn’t really realize that! Like everyone, I have moments (Hours! Days! Weeks!) when I feel – low, blue, ragged-edged, tread worn down to the wear-bars, whatever! Such was such once! However, there on the front page...

It’d been hard n’ heavy sledding Out in the “oil patch” Days that sometimes seemed like weeks When even “upsides” had a “catch”, His job was flying bush-plane Between the many sites Equipment, goods, and personnel A lot of sleepless nights, Stormy weather, schedules And unforeseen delays Hiccups to...

Santa’s reindeer staged a ‘strike’ No presents would get through It was a dread dilemma Whatever would he do, Well, he opted for some movie-stars He considered males first off Rudolph would be a “spokesdeer” But he’d only laugh and scoff, Still, old Santa forged ahead Contacting Clooney and...

The snow was falling lightly Fluffy flakes fell all around A magic white-lace carpet That smothered every sound, I guess that’s why they didn’t hear me As I walked thru Wonder Wood And how I found their Crystal Castle Where a ‘Secret Shape’ once stood, They’d come from all...