In light of the events in Ottawa yesterday a number of teachers are celebrating Canada today here at Campbell. I walked in to a room and heard two grade twelve boys reading this aloud to their classmates...made me a bit misty...we live in an amazing country! I am a Canadian Duke Redbird I’m a lobster fisherman in Newfoundland I’m a clambake in P.E.I. I’m a picnic, I’m a banquet I’m mother’s homemade pie I’m a few drafts in a Legion hall in Fredericton I’m a kite-flyer in Moncton I’m a nap on the porch after a hard day’s work is done I’m a snowball fight in Truro, Nova Scotia I’m small kids playing jacks and skipping rope I’m a mother who lost a son in the last Great War And I’m a bride with a brand new ring And a chest of hope I’m an Easterner I’m a Westerner I’m from the North And I’m from the South I’ve swam in two big oceans And I’ve loved them both. Im a clown in Quebec during carnival Im a mass in the cathedral of St. Paul Im a hockey game in the forum Im Rocket Richard and Jean Beliveau Im a coach for little league Expos Im a babysitter for sleep defying rascals Im a canoe trip down the Ottawa Im a holiday on the Trent Im a mortgage, Im a loan I’m last week’s unpaid rent I’m Yorkville after dark I’m a walk in the park I’m a Winnipeg gold-eye I’m a hand-made trout fly I’m a wheat-field and a sunset Under a prairie-sky I’m Sir John A. MacDonald I’m Alexander Graham Bell I’m a pow-wow dancer And I’m Louis Riel I’m the Calgary Stampede I’m a feathered Sarcee I’m Edmonton at night I’m a bar-room fight I’m a rigger, I’m a cat I’m a ten-gallon hat And an unnamed mountain in the interior of B.C. I’m a maple tree and a totem pole I’m sunshine showers And fresh-cut flowers I’m a ferry boat ride to the Island I’m the Yukon I’m the Northwest Territories I’m the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort Sea I’m the Prairies, I’m the Great Lakes I’m the Rockies, I’m the Laurentians I am French I am English And Im Métis But more than this Above all this I am Canadian and proud to be free. I am a Canadian is a sixty line poem celebrating the peoples of Canada, presented to Queen Elizabeth at her Silver Jubilee in 1977. Duke Redbird is a Native Canadian poet and writer.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:38:18 +0000
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