reclaiming – ©PJ Yukon 1986

I wrote the following poem called “reclaiming” in 1986 inspired by Yukon Elder Elijah Smith’s long struggle to bring about a Yukon land claim settlement. It has since published and shared many times worldwide.🍁 #YukonFact

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Prague is probably the world's most beautiful city.

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Please share the horror in Gaza.

In an air strike yesterday night, a mother and 8 of her children were killed in their house in Rafah. Here are the names:

1-Tagheed Ashour (44) mother
2-Tamer Ashour (27) son
3-Atta Ashour (26) son
4-Raneen Ashour (20) daughter
5-Haneen Ashour…

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I am one for snowy story scenes. For slow walks through the safe streets of Tokyo, abandoned in the rain. For bumper cars, pedal to the metal, connected to a thundercloud, and for the glowing drones like lit dandelions etching the wheat fields with strange sayings. I am one.

IT'S RELEASE DAY!!!

This book has gestated for 3+ years, which makes me a basking shark, but The Dragon and the Butterfly's birthday is finally here!!

Celebrate with me by grabbing a copy, & show gratitude to Lost Boys Press 📚 for taking this incredible journey with little ol' me.

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Absolutely thrilled to be nominated for two Goldies. It's an honour to be in the company of such fantastic authors. Congratulations to all the finalists in each category! 🎉🤩😍❤️

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I'm honoured and delighted to be shortlisted in DarkWinter Lit Mag and Press's 2nd Anniversary Contest under the 'Poetry' category...and in the company of these talented poets whose work I greatly admire ❤️‍🔥

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Mister whiskers, curled up in dream. You, in the faded recliner, the motors of your snore like a cheetah's purr. The TV on mute in blue aquarium light. Outside the window, a borealis of feathering snow. And I, in a sated sigh, put my feet up too. We go gently into that goodnight.

Cast your line into the soft static of six days from now.
Feet up, warm cup,
and let someone in.
One who’s been down.
Yes, that’s the one,
my love.

You know,
don’t you.
You can tell.
I sit in the greenery,
but perceive only symbols.
All of its inhabitants
seem impatient,
as if to chide me
for this microscope of mine.
I am strafed with ill-considered bullets,
held down with malice,
but find a friend
in an unlikely…

~ A plan ~

Coffee in the quiet warmth of morning. Birdsong ‘neath a cloud’s tilted anvil, and the way they paint their paths to a landing. Soft intrusions of fly feet and the clack of a late beetle. The imprisoned cat, with his round lamps and cobra sway. Later, I will buy boxes…

One of my eyelashes turned completely white, listen I love you, death is coming

Beware the mystic
who tells us so,
the teacher
who claims to know,
the empath
who asserts that,
the lion
who keeps a house cat.

Friendly tip
to narcissists:
don’t talk about it,
walk about it.

Grandiose is this.

No More Nights Harmonising Till Dawn: Old Friends Say Goodbye

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A winter's day, In a deep and dark December…

As the young man made his way through the busy New York streets, the snow fell around him, as relentless and bleak as his thoughts. Pulling his collar up, he

In the almost-empty house, (that cavern), I sing- to stave off, to challenge the onrushing ghosts of what's been said (and what hasn't been) in the years of its occupation. I cannot be silent here, by myself, having been tacitly assigned this last cleanup, this…