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ring my work and for putting out such a quality publication it is a joy to read yours s e ingraham posted by s e ingraham at 7 46 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 25 2013 pages of sorrow i weep for too few days left and too many and collect tears in leaves being swept from trees burning on the coasts of two continents burying them in dunes my sadnesses grow from joy as well as small unhappinesses but all bring a weighty importance in the moment of their happenstance and i have learned to honour each one with the individual ritualistic ceremony i deem proper to the occasion this might involve an hour of silence or days on my knees i sob when i learn of children dying anywhere victims of genocide war or infanticide and depending where i am in my own life the accumulation of pain is a strong indicator as to how much more i can bear to amass if i am not cognizant of the sorrows i am toting like carry on baggage at any one time it is easy for me to slip into a state where i cannot control the amount of despair sloshing within my being however if dawn s curtains part on skies gray as gloom i find counting distressful situations irresistible before my feet even hit the floor i number the labs using animals to test for mak eup the navy sending sonar through the oceans making whales bleed inside my eyes are swimming as i remember our tar sands are spilling daily with no regard to those living downstream i cannot seem to turn off the reel of baby m the tiny girl laying dead and cold in a local cemetery starved and beaten by her parents who are now imprisoned awaiting a trial starting here in several months it s usually the last one that either forces me to pull the covers back up and over reality or me up and out into the dark world again it matters in what part of the dismal world i find myself dverse thursday july 25 2013 posted by s e ingraham at 3 26 pm 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels are you listing dverse thursday poets united sunday may 26 2013 it s that dreaded weekend again it is that weekend again when all of tv is showing movies about war and the fallout from war documentaries about soldiers and armies and what happens to those who go to war and those who survive and those who don t those who are left behind to wait and those who are just left behind it is not the weekend when canadians celebrate their war heroes nor is it close to the time when we remember and honour our war dead but you cannot live this close to the most powerful nation on earth and not be affected by the goings on below our shared border especially as much of the time we share the same conflicts so here it is memorial day weekend again and all about me are stories of the body bags arriving from afghanistan still even though the americans are in the midst of withdrawing their troops the same as we are and i can t help wondering if we and they have not squandered an awful lot of blood ie personnel not to mention time and money on another losing cause as much as i know this is a weekend to celebrate the brave men and women who protect the rest of us and our way of life by going off to war especially those that make that much talked about but too often not thought about ultimate sacrifice i still find myself enraged so much so i can hardly stand to think about it for one more minute and still and still my fondness for all things italian wins out and i find myself ensconced before my television and for the umpteenth time glued to tea with mussolini after all is there anything more soul restoring than the scene in that movie near the end when the passel of old ladies defy the nazis by plastering themselves against the towers of san gimignano so the retreating soldiers can t make a last ditch attempt to bomb them to dust as the allies are marching across tuscany sigh no i don t suppose there is posted by s e ingraham at 6 01 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry pantry 151 poets united saturday august 7 2010 shopping for care exhausting that s what it is going from place to place interviewing owners and staff and you know no matter how much research you do or how careful you are it s going to be a crapshoot i mean look at that poor mom in stoney she did everything right and still her toddler dead in emergency the daycare not at fault the baby fell hard it could happen to anyone two days later another this time an infant in leduc rushed to a medical centre unconscious barely breathing shaken baby syndrome the determination but why the mother wails i checked their references i did shopping for a funeral home now the parents have little energy for this task who would and yet still they are getting the feeling even through their grief that there may be a way to do this wrong as well s e ingraham posted by s e ingraham at 2 17 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday august 5 2010 this just in from the tar sands this just in from the tar sands they are saying smugly that we now have the clean oil we of the land that last year had to show the world our tailings ponds with hundred of water fowl so oil coated they looked nothing like the species of ducks or birds they actually were and everything like the tragic loss of life they were becoming the world was critical as it wept with those of us who were heartsick at big oil companies who tried to make light of this after all it was an accident and they had tried to plan the ponds to be where birds weren t but had miss planned who knew the migratory patterns were changing indeed who knows anything who has any knowledge at all about all these things about the poisoned waters in our north and the decline of all the indigenous plants animals and people let s not forget the people even though every report done by oil companies and governments alike would like to do just that forget the people that is how about the doctor in fort chip who dared mention he noticed a higher than normal incidence of a rare cancer there that s all he just mentioned that and suddenly he was an alarmist he was threatened by the very board that licensed him told he would be sanctioned by them that he would no longer be able to practise medicine if he didn t hush why didn t they just duct tape his mouth the harassment grew so intimidating that he and his wife finally fled the small native community and moved across the country to the maritimes but he felt so bad about abandoning the many sick he was serving in fort chip he started seeing them via teleconferences and flying in on a regular basis to keep up their care all the while fighting his ridiculous court case as the alarmist who the medical board was taking to task he was eventually cleared of all charges of course but little noise was made of this very little noise at all no it was more important to undermine him loudly not to put things to rights and now with that dreadful oil spill off the coast of the usa there are actually people in texas north as many of us have come to think of alberta because of the way oil is worshipped here there are people here who really are going about saying with the self righteous fervour of televangelists well who has the dirty oil now huh looks like getting the oil out of the ground is the wiser choice after all completely ignoring the reports that confirm how much contamination has happened to the groundwater how extensive the downstream damage is how quickly this non renewable resource will be gone in any case if everything was on the up and up and nothing had to be kept from the public do you think the largest oil companies in the world would keep some of the top scientists on the planet on retainer to the tune of millions of dollars so that they cannot testify or work for anyone else including environmental groups and or governments kind of makes one wonder doesn t it and not just about the oil companies this is nothing new really these scientist are paid to be deniers much the same way scientists were paid to deny the harmful effects of tobacco oddly enough by the oil companies when those were first discovered and being touted widely by the medical community what is that saying the more things change the more they stay the same and all the while the pictures from the gulf grow ever more troubling although troubling seems far too mild a term when one watches the size of the oil spill spreading unchecked no matter what those supposedly in the know do to try and stop it this crude is flowing relentlessly toward land almost as if drawn magnetically there the black is seeping through the depths and even up to the surface oil is coming and there s no joy to be had about this bounty none at all s e ingraham this appeared on the site poets for living water in the open mic section summer 2010 in response to a call for work regarding the bp oilspill in the gulf of mexico that occurred earlier that year the work did not necessarily have to address that particular tragedy unfortunately there are many from which to choose the following bio accompanied the poem on poets for living water i am posting the poem here as well as leaving it up on the first site because if i understand the situation correctly when pflw take down their poems they don t archive them i would like mine to stay up for awhile and then be archived and this way on my personal blog i have control of the situation s e ingraham lives and writes in edmonton alberta canada she is currently the president of the stroll of poets a group who meet weekly from september to march to read their work aloud and last year she edited their anthology recently her piece welcome to the jungle placed in the competition expressions of hunger and will hang at edmonton s city hall as well as several art galleries she has two poems archived on poetsagainstwar ca and is working on several chapbooks one of which is based on her grandson s first year of life entitled you don t know jack she believes poets have a responsibility to record events world and local as witnesses and hopes at least some of her work reflects that belief posted by s e ingraham at 2 27 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alberta bp clean oil coverups environmental disasters oilspill tarsands texas north thursday july 1 2010 on my stool in my dome she said picture yourself in a safe place and instantly i saw myself on a wooden stool painted forest green a stool with rungs i am hunched over with my head pulled down between my shoulders and look as if i am afraid someone might hit me but when she asks me if i feel safe and i say not quite she asks me what i need to do to make the space safe and i know right away and fashion a strong clear dome that fits right over the whole affair me the stool leaving enough room to breathe but close enough to make me feel well safe she asks me to describe my safe place and more particularly me in it i too sick to decline even though i feel embarrassed i think begin to give her exacting details especially as she leads me when i falter with prompts such as what are you doing with your hands keeping them cupped up near my face as if to hide it at a moment s notice why would you need to hide your face describe it to me she sounds so interested maybe she is it s always hard to tell with therapists anyhow as i say i am pretty sick so feel i have no choice and tell her how i look as if i have been crying for a week straight and my whole face is swollen and red not just my eyes which are mere slits i know how truly ugly i am and i hate myself more than ever is that why you need to be in the dome on your stool she wants to know i give her question careful consideration i know that it s part of it but not everything there are so many things that make me feel unsafe but most of them i don t even know how to begin to articulate she tells me that i can stay on my stool under my dome as long as i need to and return there anytime i have her permission to give myself permission to keep this safe place for myself and she wonders if this has been helpful i tell her i think so but i ll have to let her know posted by s e ingraham at 4 51 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 29 2010 last night i heard africa drumming in an ordinary community hall in the south central section of the city on one of the longest days of the year they gathered many of them from here aboriginal métis french and english canadians and many of them from the dark continent ghanaian angolan somali zimbabuen we were raising money for a drought and poverty stricken hospital in western ghana and doing it in style to say the hall was filled to overflowing would not be an exaggeration but the real fulfillment came from the sound as a little travelled canadian white woman my understanding of african drumming was pretty much limited to what i saw on tv and in movies from hollywood even specials on national geographic did not do justice to the splendour of real drumming the likes of which we heard last night first one drummer would start and he alone would be powerful and loud and rhythmic in ways that are hard to define but then another would do a counter beat and another would join in and layer his distinctive drum either on top or in step until sometimes as many as ten drummers were making this remarkable sound all of them different and all the same transporting many of us to africa or to dance or both it was not hard to imagine being in the jungle in the dark around a fire hearing the beat of these drums playing long into the night or maybe for several days or nights so mesmerizing is the intensity of music that is just drumming and i do not mean to diminish it in the least by saying just in fact just the opposite that drums alone make such compelling music enthrals me thrills me makes me want to move as i noticed it did almost everyone in attendance at this function yes last night i heard africa drumming and began to understand her mystery just a little bit better and why we need to keep trying with her mama africa we hear you we do i found myself promising to try harder to help her and i will posted by s e ingraham at 6 17 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me s e ingraham edmonton alberta canada poetry is the evidence of life if your life is burning well poetry is just the ash leonard cohen view my complete profile my blog list it s always something ten distinct smells rocky green images and text an invitation our lost jungle travis bliffen on link building and link building strategies discriminating reader ann patchett s the dutch house this fall s must read leftbrainwrite bearing witness the wall 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