Tag: Chippawa
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On the Bridge at Chippawa by David Hobberlin
hobberlin I love to experience the wind at Chippawa whenever the Westerly blows strong. How it presses back the eager boughs. How it scuffs the tops of the water crests that so mark the dark river’s frown. How it seeks to scour this single bridge that spans the narrows still. How it empties itself where…
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Scenes From a Hungarian Restaurant by C. D. Onofrio
little European Herman Hesse Maybe Berlin where Jazz plays in the club and the young women sitting across from me conjure visions of love sweet love sweetly the piano plays me into reverie once I dreamed this place once I dreamed I was Hemingway shucking oysters on the Seine with my pen and poor finances…
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[Father Louis Hennepin] by Captain Flynn
Straight up Frontenac’s Northmost side Ever a West he sailed, Crossing in blessed Advent tide, Landing on great Niagara’s shore. South he turned to a sullen roar; His Crucifix on his heart he bore; Never his spirit failed. Now Glory to God, whose hand did forge This wondrous watery road! On ragged rim of the…
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Visit of the Prince of Wales to Laura Secord by Sarah Anne Curzon
(Chippawa, 1860) Laura Secord poem poetry Now wherefore trembles still the string By lyric fingers crossed, To Laura Secord‘s praise and fame, When forty years are lost? Nay, five and forty, one by one, Have Borne her from the day When, fired with patriotic zeal, She trod her lonely way. Her hair is white, her step…