Member Bio: Joanna Gale
Joanna has been published in a variety of Newsletters, Chapbooks and Anthologies as well as online. She is an active member of TOPS and CFP and reads at various open mic events. She’s been a guest poet at Poetry Cafe in Oakville and has co-ordinated poetry events at Seniors Residences. In November 2007, she published her first Chapbook, Workshop Sketches, by Beret Days Press. Originally from Sudbury, Ontario, Joanna now resides in Markham. She enjoys writing and hopes her poems give others the same pleasure she gets from writing them.
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Trenton to Toronto
who are these soldiers of an Afghan war?
who fight to restore
another land on another shore
Banners of Canada
wait and wave over
pass overpass over
marks the Memorial Route passes
underneath
the envoys that carry each
fallen soldier’s passage
racing horns of honor
hone on grandstand
maple-leaf salutes
for where they’ve been
for what they’ve done
brave
Icon’s
quest in history
rolls past The Highway
Heroes turnoff at Port Hope
the flags lowered
the ributes raised
Trenton to Toronto
‘lest we forget’
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only moonbeams
my fingers loosely hold a diamond’s light,
protected in the tiffany case, my palm
becomes, like a shell to sheild the treasure
within. rays filter through flesh
from the jewel. no sun
to keep it warm.
only moonbeams
my heart floats.
Joanna Gale (L.) and Sheila Texeira (R.) reading from their poetry book at the open mic during the Words Alive Literary Festival.
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All Photography below is by Doug Wright. All poetry by Joanna Gale.
