Category: Poetry

• The Shirts

  

  These shirts show signs of wear and tear, The collars frayed, the cuffs rubbed bare. I see the signals everywhere. I see them in my mind like doom. They float like ghosts upon the loom. I slip them on like skin, perfume. I’ll have the collars turned before I fold them neatly in the drawer. […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 26, 2022

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  creative writing, poem, poems, Poetry, verse, writing

• Clouds – A Poem

  

  A boy lies on his back looking at clouds. Only he is not looking, he is up there with them, up where they slide and collide mysterious as fate insubstantial as air. I have not seen clouds in sixty years, until today – there, overhead, in the blue sky that scrolls and unfolds – there, […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 4, 2022

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  Poetry, verse, writing

• A Poem for my Dad

  

  The Saw Hold this, my father said, Meaning the board he was cutting For another project he would never finish. The silver-toothed saw snickered and whined. It was his way, I guess, Of reaching out. I saw nothing at all, A small boy who wanted only To go out and play. © Glen Fisher

  Glen Fisher

  January 20, 2022

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  creative writing, poems, Poetry, unpublished poems, writing

• Botanical Gardens

  

  From the Lost Poetry Project This Sunday morning constitutional finds us traipsing across the stubby field, over the earthen wall of the dam where a couple of Egyptian geese meditate or drowse in a circle of brown water. We rise toward the morning light, climbing toward trees, seeing the rolling grassy joins and planes of […]

  Glen Fisher

  May 22, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  #poetry, #southafricanverse, #verse, #writing

• Two photographs, and a poem

  

  If I have been remiss lately in posting my photographs, here are two images from an ongoing series on rural Ontario, with the promise that there will be more to follow. And just to mix things up, here is a teeny weeny poem from my Lost Poetry project. Words and pictures, folks, words and pictures! […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 20, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  #Canada, #glenfisherphotography, #glenfisherwriting, #landscape, #Ontario, #photography, #poems, #poetry, #writing

• Lost Poetry Project – Two Pomes

  

  The Road We Travel I think about the road we travelled, How it all seemed so serene – The sun shone down, like no tomorrow, On timeless hills and fields of shimmering green. Yet there was work to do, and cares to manage, Your sick child never really out of mind. This journey too would […]

  Glen Fisher

  February 13, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  Glen Fisher, literature, poems, Poetry, verse, writing

• Lost Poetry Project

  

  Once upon a time – it was a dark and stormy night, as I recall, my poor heart in turmoil, my tongue let loose upon the world in verse and worse – once upon a time, when I was younger, quite a lot younger in fact, and of course much less sensible than I am […]

  Glen Fisher

  January 30, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  Poetry

• Did I know then it was over?

  

  That long-ago momentin a hotel corridor –a woman’s soft mews and a man’sblunt panting. My own lifesuddenly unraveled,undone by this happiness.Or by no more than a mutuallysatisfactory encounter, a momentstolen behind a thin painted door.Until the couple stoppedwhatever they were doing.A sudden silenceand I moved quickly on.

  Glen Fisher

  January 30, 2021

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  Poetry, verse, writing

• African Fish Eagle

  

  This was not one of thoseSwooping soaringPhoto opportunities, you know,Where the bird glides in fromStage left andExits beautifullyTo the rightWith a pristinePink and silverSalmon or somethingA missile ready to launchFrom its clawFlakes of morning lightFalling from its not yet barbecuedFlesh. This was murder, a brawl in the shallowsWhich ended badlyFor the thrashing creature in the […]

  Glen Fisher

  October 31, 2020

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  African Fish Eagle, bird photography, Kruger Park, Poetry

• Pomes, unfamous ‘cos unknown

  Then there are the poems – pomes, John Lennon called them – which are unfamous by definition, since they never were published, or submitted for publication. This is a conceit, of course – these poems like their published cousins would doubtless be languishing in the same dry obscurity even if they had been published. Still, […]

  Glen Fisher

  April 30, 2017

  Poetry, Writing Wordshop

  unpublished poems