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Earthly Habits

April 15, 2021 by Dale Leave a Comment

herbs in a jar for preserves

my Father always toiled at the earth above the rocks he kept our yard a solitude of quiet and play a kinder garten circled by the elm hedge and shaded by the twin aspen it was always home and always work. my Father always toiled at our garden on the verge of my perception I…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2021, Poetry Tagged With: childhood, Family, father, garden, GloPoWriMo, legacy, Poetry, preserves, son, toil

Love Hate

April 11, 2020 by Dale 2 Comments

Her kiss was sweet upon my breath gliding me into the forever of her lips Her barbs pungent purple blisters unintentioned welts upon my heart A spaghetti stain a noodle dropped a meatball gobbled a tender leaf I didn’t share A flavour complete Thai soup that blooms Caprese salad Margherita I would marry I cannot…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2020, Poetry Tagged With: basil, flower, garden, GloPoWriMo, hate, Love, relationship

Whence

April 1, 2020 by Dale Leave a Comment

I am love hard toiled and sown tender and fresh I’m cultivated made of spring made for harvest dirty and raw I’m a mystery simply made spicy hot a culinary adventure I’m of this earth nourished by attention craving isolation I’m a moment a hope I’m a seedling a promise I’m garden a possibility in…

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Filed Under: GloPoWriMo2020, Poetry, Writes Tagged With: garden, GloPoWriMo, NaPoWriMo, Poetry, seedling, self-portrait

Fountain-head

April 23, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Fountain Head

Fountain-head waters arc Nasrid built symmetry white noise garden sanctuary blue. Tourist animating gazes watching upon belly moving mirror captures sky memories. ∞ Submitted as part of “National Poetry Writing Month – 2017” (#NaPoWriMo2017).  Today’s prompt: write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with each line performing…

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Filed Under: Architecture, NaPoWriMo_2017, Poetry, Travel Tagged With: Alhambra, elevenie, Fountain, garden, NaPoWriMo2017, Photograph, Poem, tourist, Water

Our Garden

April 22, 2017 by Dale Leave a Comment

Georgic Landscape

Give birth to new life among young grasses and wild daffodils spring on legs still wet Till hearts prepared to taste a rhapsody of rain drops dripped heirlooms sown deep Sweep beams with sunshine walk the earth caught on sweeping swallow wings grow germinate grow Angry arguments pull like peeling paint from iris petals done…

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Filed Under: NaPoWriMo_2017, Nature, Poetry Tagged With: garden, georgic, life, NaPoWriMo2017, nurture, picturesque, Poetry, relationship, season, sublime

Heirloom

August 23, 2016 by Dale 6 Comments

Portal to our past Tomato Inheritance Indeterminate.”   Gorgeous and fully ripe, this is one of the newest beauties from my heirloom tomato garden: a “Russian Cossack.” An indeterminate tomato, it falls between a salad and beefsteak depending on the actual tomato and with a beautiful green-gold stripe against the orange/red skin, the tomato is…

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Filed Under: Flora, Garden/Vegetables, Haiku, Macro, Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged With: garden, green, Haiku, heirloom, macro, Photograph, rare, Red, Russian Cossack, tomato, Weekly Photo Challenge

Herbs — A Gateway to Freedom and Abundance

May 7, 2014 by Dale 3 Comments

As a child, I hated the family garden. It represented work. It represented indentured servitude. It represented poverty. There isn’t more evidence in my life of the difference perspective can make. Growing into a man, my perspective changed when my attitude changed — when I stopped working a garden for others and started working it…

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Filed Under: Canadian Food Experience Project, Eats, Writes Tagged With: Canada, Canadian, canadian food, Canadian Food Experience Project, childhood memories, chives, Cooking, Family, food, food experiences, garden, gardening, herbs, home, Locavore, memories, window box

Marinara Sauce … from harvest to scratch

November 5, 2013 by Dale 2 Comments

There is making things from scratch … and then there is making them from harvest to jar or, in my case, from seed to jar. And as satisfying as all my preserves have been, there was nothing more satisfying than making my own marinara sauce with the tomatoes I grew myself. While the recipe that…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Italian, Mediterranean, Preserves, Recipes Tagged With: basil, canning, Cooking, cooking from scratch, freeze tomato, Fresh Tomato, garden, Gluten-Free, harvest, home cooking, Italian, Marinara, marinara sauce, preserves, pressure canner, Recipe, Roma tomatoes, tomato, tomato sauce, vegetarian

Green Cherry-Tomato Ketchup

November 2, 2013 by Dale 6 Comments

Green ketchup … yes, homemade green ketchup  made from the green cherry and pear tomatoes from my garden. So much of life comes from being in the moment and taking chances. When I took the chance to join The Canadian Food Experience Project, I didn’t know what I’d end up writing about let alone what…

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Filed Under: Eats, Gluten-Free, Preserves, Recipes, Vegetarian Tagged With: Canadian Food Experience Project, canning, cherry tomato, cherry tomatoes, Cooking, fall, food, garden, green ketchup, green tomato, homemade, ketchup, pear tomato, preserves, Recipe, Valerie Lugonja

Busy Bees Drunk on Sedum

September 20, 2013 by Dale Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Nature, Shoots Tagged With: bee, fall, flower, garden, nature, Photo, Photography, Sedum, Shoots

30 Poems in 30 Days – Global Poetry Writing Month (2022)

  • A Love Song

    A Love Song
  • Chosen

    Chosen
  • Wormwood

    Wormwood
  • Bashert

    Bashert
  • Lumber Dog

    Lumber Dog
  • Aisling for the Land

    Aisling for the Land
  • Hard Boiled Boy

    Hard Boiled Boy
  • The Blasted

    The Blasted
  • Sense of Time

    Sense of Time
  • We Reflect

    We Reflect
  • A Family Grown

    A Family Grown
  • Fly — Away

    Fly — Away
  • Curtains

    Curtains
  • A Question Heard

    A Question Heard
  • The Storm

    The Storm
  • A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom

    A Dis-Ode to the Mushoom
  • Bun in the Oven

    Bun in the Oven
  • The world don’t owe you nothing

    The world don’t owe you nothing
  • the syrphid

    the syrphid
  • Osborne

    Osborne
  • Love is not a Word

    Love is not a Word
  • Meta

    Meta
  • Super-Pop

    Super-Pop
  • footprints on the sands of time

    footprints on the sands of time
  • Spring Grows

    Spring Grows
  • Neptune’s Recline

    Neptune’s Recline
  • Red Light, Green Light, Stop

    Red Light, Green Light, Stop
  • Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights
  • Afterwinter

    Afterwinter
  • The Story of a Dog

    The Story of a Dog

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