CANADIANA, part #3

 previous posted poems (part#1) 
Canadian spelling
speech borrowings
Canadian moose
Canadian weather
Torontonian / Buffalonian
compassionate use
overwintering waterfowl
seniors' hockey

previous posted poems (part#2)

Kim Jong Un's visit
snow-biota

Thanksgiving, Canadian

Haida Gwaii

joual

prairie home

Mounties

Canadian raising (linguistics)

CURRENT CONTENTS: 

Nanaimo bars

Founding cultures (Canadian origins)

Crept and leapt

Don-tinental unification -- 'fifty-first'

Newfoundland potato famine (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

Chemainus, BC (6 stanzas,  'brief saga')

related sagas -- Canada ("national verse")

                                        

Authors' Note:   We have the good fortune in Canada, in some instances, of choosing either standard British grammar or the American version thereof. In the US, the commonly employed past tenses are "creeped" and "leaped"; these would alter the rhyming of the poem's second and fourth lines. A US-compatible version of this poem is also in the works, and can be found HERE (link under construction).

Authors' Note:  The Canadian author regrets the unapologetic tone of this diatribe. See the verse speech borrowings. 

And, at this point, it's probably also relevant to recommend the "Imperialistic Trio" for which the above poem constitutes an important component.   

Note that the three stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "ROTTEN SPUDS (Newfoundland potato famine)" by proceeding to our blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE.

Note that the six stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE. 

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "CHEMAINUS, BC." by proceeding to our blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE.

CANADA ("National verse")

Note that the four stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE. 

Note that the six stanzas of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.

And as a later development, we put words to music. You can now sing along with the song "AVIAN DIGESTION" by proceeding to our blog "Silly Songs and Satire". Click HERE.

Trent-Severn (Ontario nostalgia)

Great Lakes (Ontario nostalgia)

Franglais (savoir-faire)

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