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Play Your Part: Daniel Omolola

11/13/201407/12/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

As you arrive at the scene of life Your first reaction is to scream You cry and people You brought joy into every face You have now started your race You are welcomed into your space To do whatever you are Capable of doing And when you are done Many will think you are gone … Continue reading Play Your Part: Daniel Omolola

TOGETHER There Will Be Light: Stephen W. Sigurdson

09/22/201407/13/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

The look in your eyes makes my beaten soul mend each time triggering a positive trend. My mask is slightly lifted, I take a peak, as you smile and gently speak. I see the integrity that moves with you, I begin to believe that goodness can be true. When I am lonely, I need to … Continue reading TOGETHER There Will Be Light: Stephen W. Sigurdson

Fat Freedom Day: Jason Cheung

09/22/201407/11/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

I can’t stand it anymore. I mean it’s horrific. It forgives no one, senior nor child, man or woman. In fact, its trickery and the advertising mechanisms are so enticingly detrimental, it should be tried for war crime. It’s a label that stigmatises us. You rather be anything but that. It’s beyond a schoolyard taunt, … Continue reading Fat Freedom Day: Jason Cheung

Flowers: Jordan Derkson

09/22/201407/12/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

Does the wind know how to Blow? Does the Bluejay do anything to fly, other than flapping its wings? Does it know how to speak squirrel, do they send tweets from tree to tree? Is that the sound of the forest? Does it listen? Does it speak? Does the dragonfly know how to hunt or … Continue reading Flowers: Jordan Derkson

Song of the Feral Child: Cassandra Kulay

09/19/201407/12/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

You call to me, there is something crucial in my not noticing you reaching To pet me, what you think will help Doesn’t, don’t help me. If I die, Dark or shuddering, exultant or pitiful, That death is mine and nothing owns my soul. You offer the impoverished Something that has too high a price, … Continue reading Song of the Feral Child: Cassandra Kulay

To Be, To Belong, To Become: Ruth McLean

09/19/201407/12/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

We are human beings Who belong to the family of man; We are here to learn and grow, To become the best that we can And nothing can stop us being so. We are here at the S.S.C. Convention To learn and grow some more; No matter where we are There are better things in … Continue reading To Be, To Belong, To Become: Ruth McLean

Reaching Out: Raime Goldberg

09/19/201407/12/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

Wanting to reach out to something that isn't there wanting, but not believing that I will ever have Thirsting, but not believing that I will ever drink I am alone, and yet I am not I am, but an echo of the word Waiting, and wanting to be heard unexpectedly at times I hear and … Continue reading Reaching Out: Raime Goldberg

Next to Time: James Adamson

09/19/201407/11/2017 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

Time is so close to me Its movement can be Mistaken for my soul. My knowledge sieves through The seconds and my actions Are the years of the century Stepped on as though degrees Of the earth, the minutes and Seconds of our globe Machine to make me a Tooth in a sprocket Like I … Continue reading Next to Time: James Adamson

Montreal at Night: Spencer Elliot Carr

09/19/201410/20/2021 ~ kaleidoscopeonline

The city is alive, Some dopamine-drenched dream, Or serotonin-stupor, There must be some meaning, An answer, a reason, The lights are eerie, I feel real, but surroundings Are a nighttime dreamscape, Odd things hold importance, Election signs in the moonlight, Edith Laperle, Debout pour Outremont, How can I be sure if I am awake, Such … Continue reading Montreal at Night: Spencer Elliot Carr

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