Golfing for Gzowski

(sung to the tune of “Waltzing Matilda,” the unofficial Australian national anthem) Once a jolly long driver sat astride his Yamaha,Under the shade of an old oak tree,And he sang as he sat and waited for a ball to hit,“Andrew’s come a-golfing for literacy!”...

Jonathan Torrens – The Briars

The Briars, I hadn’t ever been here before,But last night I learned about Shelagh’s underwear drawer.As the evening wore on and people got “moister”,We sang along with Molly and danced to Prairie Oyster.I collected all the evidence, mostly circumstantial,For my...
Joseph Boyden, CBC Poet Laureate

Joseph Boyden, CBC Poet Laureate

Joseph Boyden and Alison Gzowski at Emerald Hills, ON June 2009 Good Game: An Epic of Miniature Proportions Alternatively titled: Reading the Green, in Order to Fulfill the Requirements of Somehow Tying in Literacy with Golf as Demanded by the Organizing Committee of...

NFLD Poem 2006

I hold your creamy face in my hand so mildAnd I am mesmerized by each and every dimpleI swear that today I will drive you wildBut we know, my love that it is not that simple I smile and place you gently, on your favorite resting placeA simple bed for your rotund...

Calgary 2007 Poem

Peter GzowskiGolf Tournament 2007 I got a call the other dayTo find my irons, join the fraySo like a flash, I gathered brandsRafters, bars and oyster cans I drove the truck to Willow rangeBut that’s when everything got strangeFor they weren’t sett’n up a brandingThere...