Brockville, Ontario, Canada

John Bernard Bourne

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Recurrence

 

I was a victim of the night

many times

in that city:

 

- of the railroad tracks

and the Ambassador Bridge

summer expiring in the humidity

of the abandoned schoolyard

 

- painting pictures of the river

nullified by skylines

and patriotic confusion, inept

in our youth and folly

 

- fragile, like the psyche

that failed the bonds of intimacy

slow to transitions, wayward

in the maze of delicacy

 

Ember, like my personal prophecies

languishing

on Sunset and Wyandotte.

 

 

 

 

 

Crossing the Line into Twilight

 

Summer is nocturnal

creeping through the weeks

like mist in the rain

 

toward an uncertain moment

awkward

in the looming essence of

awareness

like that time -

 

     in Bradford

flush in the realm of providence

youthful darkness

celebrating the evening

and the uncertain path home

 

far away - from childhood

from international affairs

from commitment

 

to other years

and other incarnations

of my developing spirit

 

hints of the soundtrack

and morning as an afterthought.

A member since July 2007.

 

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Locks (Part I)

 

inscriptions     of a testament

to vanquished myths

streaming

like youth into

a time past:

     ruins

of vision and progress

mis-timed, mis-placed

concrete entombed

into the landscape

as fishermen

with bamboo poles

sit silently, languishing

on the crumbling stairs.

Jet lagged world travellor

Poems of the Spirit Journey

 

 

John Bernard Bourne s a Canadian writer. He was born in Toronto, raised in Holland Landing, and currently lives in Brockville, Ontario. He has lived and traveled in various places around the world, most significantly South Korea and the Northwest Territories.

 

He began as a singer/songwriter and released The Voice Within (1993) and After Tourniere (1997) before becoming a freelance writer.

 

He has followed up with numerous fiction and non-fiction publications in various periodicals. He also released two chapbooks of his poetry through Windigo PresS.

 

John has had poetry, fiction and non-fiction appear in various publications, and some of his work has been translated into Italian and Korean.