As if I could hold
all the blue light of twilight
quiet in kitchen warm
the cold of winter sleeps
outside my window
deep in snow
and this island love song.
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Rebecca Anne Banks’ (Poet, Songwriter, Writer, Singer, Musician, Artist, Philosopher) people are from Montreal and she has been an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets for about 10 years. She has been writing poetry since 1981. The carefully woven barren images juxtaposed with Romantic longing conjure a world of great darkness and great light, the very celebration of existence. She is currently writing a book of poetry,
In the Time of Winter and working on the CD: In Blue, watch www.tympanilanerecords.com for new projects.
LCP National Poetry Month Blog 2011 
Like snippets of songs written for lonely housewives. Great juxtaposition in boreal reality vs tropic imagery. People of a culture who want what they cannot really have. Again, lonely, like all our fantasy worlds I guess.
beautiful!