Poem: "One Promise"

 

The Boy Fell

 

Poem: "Ingredients"

 

We All Need Oxygen

 I didn't vote for Tom

But after the election,

just to spice things up,

we had a new leader.

By the term's end,

soap was needed to clean

a shit load of mistakes.

A wage increase cancelled.

A cleaner environment cancelled.

My friend's livelihood cancelled.

A province suffered.

A working-class suffered.

A flower died.

There will be another election.

Nothing I can do but

wait alone.

    K.J.W.

    October 2020

It's Never Over

 Richard looked for his horse.

I think he wasn't ready

to quit the fight -

a lesson for us all:

when there's dark,

there will mutually come light.

The programming of life

is like clockwork.

See? Clear skies.

I think he wanted to fight

more. Now that's

a growth mindset.

Electronics today,

shield where it shouldn't.

Computers create worlds as

if we lived in them,

with no horses.

I think he wanted

to show he has

leadership, a quality

lacking in the ones today.

Don't go back;

call out a mammal

and prove yourself

for we are being watched

by machines.

    K.J.W.

    October 2020

Chimney Sweeper

 William Blake

is a poet who

wrote of social inequities

and was an

advocate. Gone - not forgotten.

The child upon the heath,

among death and soot

in chimney sweep's clothes

leaves me in tears.

I think we can do better,

more people can have better;

Blake's words are not gone,

for we can rise up.

    K.J.W.

    October 2020

It Matters

 Johnston...

is a pretty common name;
the colonizing 

people had that name.

Yeah, the colonizers,

breakers of Treaties...

Our message is to them.

I is a settler,

a little player

among big people,

but I'm taking the wheel

of the conversation -

nobody should be silent.

I is a settler;

it is me who must

reconcile, for those are

our actions that created this

Canada. Any minute now

I'll call for a revolution.

      K.J.W.

      October 2020