written on Canada Day for new Canadians
breezy sunlight
floods the ceremony room
each new citizen
singing O Canada
in a different tone
NeverEnding Story, July 1 2020
Note: The following is a prequel to the tanka above:
for naturalized Canadians
a giant Maple Leaf
in the ceremony
I answer
to my English name
with a twinge of sadness
Atlas Poetica, 21, 2015
Cool Announcement: 2024 Pulse Haiku
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My Dear Readers:
NeverEnding Story contributor, Michael Dylan Welch, Editor of *Pulse:
Voices from the Heart of Medicine*, posted a Youtube video of 26 hai...