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David Halliday

@miedavid

I have published poems, stories across the United States and Canada. I have been dead for several hours.

 Toronto, Canada
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Joined February 2009
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1963 - Early Toronto Blues poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1963 – Early Toronto Blues

This is the last of the poems I recently found related to 1963. I thought I’d tossed them all in the fire at the end of high school. This one is a kind of a whispering poem, not unlike some o…

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1975 5.- Edward Kuris poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1975 5.- Edward Kuris

1975 5. Edward Kuris by David Halliday I know that Edward Kuris wasn’t born in the 1500s. I think he was born in 1946 in a coal mine in Nova Scotia. But we grew up together. We met in a ditch…

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1975 4. Jan van Eyck

1975 4. Jan van Eyck by David Halliday This is an exercise in wonder. Imagine that you are an artist in the 1400s in Flanders. Everyday when you meet your friends over a quaff one of them is excite…

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1975 3 – Isaac van Swanenburg poemsstoriescollages.wordpre… Church Street is Burning

1975 3 – Isaac van Swanenburg

1975 3 – Isaac van Swanenburg by David Halliday The area around Church Street was loaded with stories. There were the hockey players who ate at Maple Leaf Grill and then played their games down the…

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cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener… The word family is used by all sorts of organizations/unions/clubs who want their members to feel safe and included. They are not family.

The word 'family' has caused controversy for this Ontario school board. Here's why | CBC News

The Waterloo Region District School Board has issued two separate statements on the word "family" after alternative media websites have posted stories about how a training session in November 2023...

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1975 2. – Pieter Brueghel the Younger

1975 2 – Pieter Brueghel the Younger by David Halliday I lived on Church Street with my girl friend of some years. And we broke up. It was a co-decision but more complicated. Our breakup was the co…

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1975 1. - Hieronymus Bosch poemsstoriescollages.wordpre… eyes wide open

1975 1. – Hieronymus Bosch

1975 Hieronymus Bosch by David Halliday I was introduced to the Flemish painters of the Renaissance. And it changed everything. Bosch and many other Flemish painters of the time saw the canvas as a…

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1970 - Milton Acorn poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – Milton Acorn

I was part of a small group of poets who would meet once a week to discuss our work. One of the poets, Jim Deahl introduced us to Milton Acorn who he struck up a friendship with. Milton had a reput…

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1970 - Interview poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – Interview

Interview with David Halliday Published 2016-08-04. What are your first memories of story telling? This is before television. Even radio was unavailable in many parts of Prince Edward Island. My gr…

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1970 - The Manhattan Project poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – The Manhattan Project

There was a young Polish aspiring poet I met at college whose poems I could not understand, his words like pedals on a wet black bough. His meanings were opaque. He reminded me of Ezra Pound. In ti…

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I heard from reliable sources that #DonaldTrump would like to participate in a woman's golf tournament. He insisted that all the other competitors be tested for #covid19, polio, measles, mumps, dental decay, and rabies.
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1970 - POEMS FOR A SICK GIRL poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – POEMS FOR A SICK GIRL

Many years ago, the girl friend of my best friend and the sister of my other best friend got ‘mono’. Coincidentally they were the same person. This was before computers, before the inte…

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1970 - SNOW poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – SNOW

I had this ambition to write a long poem about Canada. Not a poem wrapped in the flag but in white. So I wrote a poem about ‘snow’. Snow: that we pull up over our barren land like plast…

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1970 - Monica Black poemsstoriescollages.wordpre… not for the young

1970 – Monica Black

I wrote a group of poems about a woman I was having an affair with. She was separated from her husband. She was also receiving counseling. Most of the poems are too graphic to place here and in the…

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1970 - Born poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – Born

This is a story that was often repeated in my family how my mother almost died giving birth to me. I had a huge head. The doctors wanted to use foreceps on my head to pull me out. My mother would h…

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1970 - A Brief History poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1970 – A Brief History

I began to understand that you didn’t have to reflect life, you didn’t have to be authentic as an artist. You could just make it up. The person reading your work, or looking at your art…

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1970 - A series of day dreams poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…
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1970 - Suicide poemsstoriescollages.wordpre… Elon Musk sang at my wedding rehearsal.

1970 – Suicide

I found a group of poems in a drawer that had been stuck for some time. They were type written, not on a computer but on a typewriter so I had no way to reproduce them except retype or scan. I chos…

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1963 - Early Toronto Blues poemsstoriescollages.wordpre…

1963 – Early Toronto Blues

This is the last of the poems I recently found related to 1963. I thought I’d tossed them all in the fire at the end of high school. This one is a kind of a whispering poem, not unlike some o…

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