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Here, on a windswept
high plateau, is where
I've most come
to
feel at home.  MORE

summer passing - summer poem - sumnmer evening

Late summer, evening.
In my back yard,
between water
and highways,
feeling summer
passing
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MY FATHER, MY SELF

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POEMS along with
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IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME


SUMMER'S PASSING

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POEMS

IN MY OWN,
MY CHOSEN HOME

SUMMER'S PASSING

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INTERACTIVE FLASH
MUSIC VIDEO!!


SUMMER'S PASSING

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HOME IS ...
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HOME -
first version - 2006

 

 

 

HOME IS ...

Home? Anywhere, as long as it's with my family.

Anywhere, except with my parents.

On the hockey rink with my team.

In my bedroom when it's raining, listening to the rain on the roof.

I hear songs I haven't heard for decades, songs my parents played,
and I'm back with them.

Home? The smell of eggs frying in the morning.

Snow, the first snow of the season.

Darkness by the water.

Being with friends, that's what feels like home to me – just hanging out.

When do I feel at home? Alone – only when I'm alone.

Nothing has ever felt as much home as my first home –
we lived there until my father died

Coming home, for me, was falling in love.

I walk into my office, and it's like a second family -
often better than my family.

I have got to have a wide open view.

Nestled, with pine trees all around. A small house, small rooms.

It’s a small white attic room. As a child, it was my last bedroom.
Now I paint in it. But even more, home is the river I grew up beside.

My back yard. Best time of all: late summer, early evening.

I’ve loved this province all my life – that's been kind of a home to me –
but I never had a true home of my own. I was kind of a nomad.
I never saw myself – me, myself – having a real home.
Now, at almost sixty, this is the first time in my life.

It keeps changing. You know, you get married, you get divorced.
Everything changes. And then changes again.

Home, for me, is anywhere, anywhere in the world
where I can feel good – which is just about anywhere.

 

In my own
my chosen home
on a high plateau
all alone
yet cozy
a nest
and large
inviting in each day
                I’ve come to rest. 
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Elsa

endlich
ewig
zusammen
finally
forever
together


words for my father,
Erwin Schieder

These are the central words of a piece I wrote while sitting with my father
on the day of his death, after his death. It's the old dream of heaven
(without clouds and wings and angel's things).
Or maybe, even more, it's the equally old dream of heaven on earth.
I think it was my father's deepest longing,
to have a happy loving forever togetherness,
a true home of the heart,
but he didn't quite know how to make it real.

 

And for you, what does it mean, to be at home? What is home?

 

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Home is ... What is home? What does it mean, to be at home? What feels like home?

Chosen Home. Home, at home, being at home. Place, people, feeling, safety.

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