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(November 2004) Page 2
 THE QUILL (ROGER C. WORLEY) Published - Stand A Alone, Scroll Artist Magazine .. E_Zine - Twice winner at PoetryDownUnder - Twice winner at Point of life - Twice winner at Poetic Links Books "Jesus is going to get you", "Boloney" with Val Magnuson, "They Came from Cyber Space" With Monica E Smith The Quill runs these websites for poets:
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 RICHARD VALLANCE About Richard Vallance. Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 11th., 1945, Richard Vallance, H.B.A., M.L.S, is fluently bilingual in English and French, and reads Spanish and Italian, ancient Greek and Latin well. He wrote his first major poem at the age of 18, in 1963. For years, Richard wrote mainly in the field of Library and Information Science. At Chicago, in October, 1983, he won the $1,000 Data Courier Award for Excellence in Online Published Papers. Poetry: Richard has composed over 2,500 poems. In 1998, he published his first full book of poetry, A Quilt of Sonnets: Forty Four Familiar Poems, Ottawa: Providence Road Press, © 1998. 56 pp. ISBN 1-896243-07-x. In February, 2001, Richard founded his first poetry discussion group, Describe Adonis, for sonneteers. All of Richard's poetry groups have now been transferred to Smartgroups (UK), under the banner The New Pleiades = la nouvelle Pléiade. Richard's world class poetry page is Poesie’s laissez-faire Faire Foire, which showcases over 40 poets worldwide. PLFFF features sonnets, haiku, contemporary and historical poetry, and grants the monthly Prix laissez-faire Faire Foire Award . PLFFF is a member of Phenomenal Men of The Web: Arts & Humanities. Richard is the Editor of 3 Canadian poetry E-Zines, accessible here, Poetry Journals. Since September, 2001, Richard has been the poetry reviewer for Poetry Life and Times, which features the monthly Vallance Review. He is also regular contributor to the same E-Zine. Richard is also often featured with the U.S. Amerindian E-Zine, Autumn Leaves and in the US print poetry journal, The Neovictorian/Cochlea (Madison, Wisconsin). CD-ROM Books: 1. 10 of Richard's poems were included in Millennium Dawn, Kedco Studios Press, Las Vegas, NV, © 2002 ISBN 1-878431-38-2. CONTACT: Richard Vallance (Coolgoose.ca) |
Les Dunes de Bouctouche (au Nouveau Brunswick) © par Richard Vallance, le 3 octobre 2004* Titanic was the first ship ever in history to send an S.O.S., which had been just mandated by the International Marine Commission to replace the former distress call, “CQD” = “Come, quick, danger!” FROM: Canadian Spirit Voices, Chapter 4, Songs of Five Loongs in the Moonlight, poem 11. Las Vegas, NV.: Kedco Studios, © 2003 ISBN 1-878-431-44-7 __________________________________ Famished © Richard Vallance, 1998 & 1999 NOTES for our non North American readers: [1] The Odawa were an aboriginal nation or "tribe" who inhabited the many islands in the Ottawa River. The City of Ottawa (the Capital City of Canada) derives its name from them. [2] The Cree are another aboriginal Algonquin nation. [3] Lake Temiskaming is a vast, dangerous lake in the upper reaches of the Ottawa River, close to its source. [4] Throughout the long, harsh Winters which drove through the trackless forests, the Windigo, or "Ice Man", was dreaded by all Anishinabe hunters who instinctively knew he would sneak up on them if they let their guards down in exhaustion or hunger for even an instant, and would lustily snatch their freezing bodies up in his ice-blue jaws, to devour them alive, in just that instant! This is what we nowadays call, for want of a better term, "freezing to death". FROM: Canadian Spirit Voices, Chapter 3, Anishinabe Trillings, poem 4. Las Vegas, NV.: Kedco Studios, © 2003 ISBN 1-878-431-44-7
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Jan Sand in New York
JAN SAND, poet and illustrator from New York (now residing in Helsinki), is a regular contributor to Poetry Life & Times and the newsgroup alt.arts.poetry.comments. A great deal of his work is about animals, or science fiction. Recently Jan was published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press, on their latest CD ROM e-book, "A Way With Words (Poetry Real and Surreal), which also includes complete books by Dale Houstman, Sara L. Russell and Keith Gabriel Hendricks. Jan's illustrated book on the CD is called "Wild Figments And Odd Conjectures", which is also sold separately, in a limited-edition "single" CD.
To see an illustrated article about Jan's poems, visit the November '98 issue of Poetry Life & Times, and scroll down past the Editor's Letter. He also has his own poetry pages on Charlotte's Web at Artvilla.
What manufactured misery now reigns From all the engines out of plans designed To repair destructions out of past pains Not relieved by the blind eye, the numb mind. Life skins over hurts, heals wounds, turns away From terrible solutions. Instinct elects The worst be denied. Delight directs to play At pleasure. So the world reinforces its defects. Knowledge pries power out from the hoards That lie await for skills and cleverness’ behests. But power forces inclinations towards Fulfillments of ill thought out devil’s jests. So moves the world, barefoot on stony grounds To leave a bloody trail. This painful jaunt To seek out healing cures just further hounds The tortured mind with regrets that always haunt. SAILING TO NEXIUM © Jan Sand 2004
(Note: Nexium is the latest patent medicine for stomach acid) The distant shores of digestive peace Are lost in purple recall As acid sources never cease And thoughts of youth are bitter gall. Glories of nutrition, rich chocolate, Late night rumination at the fridge Are wonderful to contemplate But disturbing. Thoughts form no bridge To safe alimentation. The landscape Of old age varies from topologies Of youth long gone. The shape Of mature physiology offers apologies For youthful inclination to blunder But one cannot ignore stomach chemistry. The tendency towards colonic thunder Defers one from culinary artistry. Therefore we arrive at medicinal solution To acquire the end remedial absolution. REVISITATION © Jan Sand 2004
You are dead. Long, long gone, I know, and yet – Still moments prompted by a distant laugh, Or perhaps a pause when mounting a stair, I lose the imperative to forget And in an instant you are there. Then comes the fear, the hatred at your loss. It charges, dragonlike, at my surmise. Time shrinks. The world explodes in shrieking air And, victim to a memory that flies Back to that awful day you were no more, Sorrow and regret, numbness and despair Summon strong demons I cannot ignore. In horrid rush again I feel the need To be with you still. I bleed, I bleed.
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