Maple Leaf

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Stirring maple, proud symbol.
Red and white flag caressing the wind.

We live in multi-cultured awareness.
Voices of many languages
drifting like falling snow
over the land.

A falling waterfall in a distant
    wooded park.
It makes noise.
It is not heard by anyone.

But it falls, and falls into
the river that flows
into the lakes.
Silent noisy witness
to the vastness.
Emptiness.

Blank spaces waiting to be filled.
Visions of future progress.
of future world.

Maple leaf growing.
Slowing the pace of tomorrow
with the vision of the past.

You and I, celebrating
the royal parade of history.
Dawning greatness.
Dampening waves of words
that flutter like paper
on the ground.

Fly, maple leaf flag, fly.
Represent the emptiness
              and the fullness
                                    of the land.

Remember the eternal flame
        of clacking trains that
                   rush from sea to sea.

 

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Published in "Writing Forum". November 2009

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mlevesque's picture

exceptional.

exceptional.


Vive le Quebec libre!