Jill MacCormack
Heeding the Grackle's Song on Earth Day's Eve
I wrote this cinquain sequence last spring while reveling in a newly returned Common Grackle gleeking its joyful ode to Spring. It got me...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 20, 20204 min read
Yesterday I Wandered Lonely
Yesterday was a heavy one for people round these parts. There was a general sense of foreboding and sadness permeating much of the day....
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 19, 20201 min read
Trees by Harry Behn
This poem is one of the 200 + poems featured in The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury hardcover book of children's poems selected...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 18, 20201 min read
Snow Goose and other Wild Geese
In honour of a lovely, rare Snow Goose sighted amongst hundreds and hundreds of wild Canada Geese in a muddy, agricultural field in...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 17, 20202 min read
hot air balloon ride anyone?
In grade six I read a novel about a utopian community of hot air ballooners and theirs was a magical fantasy land I dreamed of often in...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 16, 20203 min read
Two Poems to Make you Smile :)
This morning my parents asked me if I remembered traveling to Boston with them in their new Mailbu forty four years ago today--when I was...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 15, 20203 min read
Sod Turning in Spring
https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem-of-the-Week-Digging-by-Seamus-Heaney My choice for today's poem arose from a conversation with...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 14, 20203 min read
Poetry and Kindness
The summer I was turning thirty five was hellish awful. I was strung out to a dangerous point from anxious exhaustion following a rough...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 13, 20204 min read
The Haunting, Steady Call of Spring... and Silence
The other night I awoke in the early am to the call of the Saw-whet Owl in our back woods. Unmistakably digital in sound, I wondered what...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 12, 20201 min read
Reality by Dorothy Livesay
Taken from The Ryerson Press Archive, today's poem is by acclaimed female Canadian poet, Dorothy Livesay. Reality Encased in the hard,...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 11, 20201 min read
The Lindens on McGill
The Lindens on McGill--1957 (A gift for my dear father) In springtime the Lindens on McGill rained down catkins. They slithered dew worm...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 10, 20204 min read
This Day is Good...and Many: From Notes on Suffering to a Friend
But first a poem... The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 9, 20201 min read
Time--Whatever it is--Goes on
It's been an almost heretofore unimaginable month since the WHO declared Covid-19 pandemic. So much has come to a standstill that it is...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 8, 20202 min read
Longing for Origami
Strangely, one day early last week I decided to cover our living room window with a cheerful message for passerby's. I engaged our...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 7, 20201 min read
The Moon this Night
In honour of tonight's full moon I have chosen to share a very special poem from my own children's childhood. I read this poem as part of...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 6, 20202 min read
...standing now, quietly...
Taken directly as a passage from poet and philosopher John O'Donohue's lyrical ode to beauty called Beauty--The Invisible Embrace is his...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 5, 20202 min read
Ducks' Ditty by Kenneth Grahame
Just this evening my eldest daughter and I decided to head out for a short walk in the half hour before dusk. We figured there would be...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 4, 20201 min read
Two Nighttime Poems for 4/4/2020
When I was little my mother read to my siblings and I every night before we went to sleep. She was a lover of the written word--still is...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 3, 20202 min read
A Beauty Tinged with Sadness --
The poem I am sharing with you today was written by a dear friend and the poet whose application of sensitivity and genius craft I admire...
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Jill MacCormack
Apr 2, 20201 min read
The Inimitable Shel Silverstein
Because it's always good to have another perspective...pay special note to the last stanza, especially now. It's All the Same to the Clam...
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