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    On the Move
    On the Move
    On the Move
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    On the Move

    By Barbara J. Waldern

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    This is a collection of some of my most recent poems written from 2007 to 2010 published in 2012, a period of great transition in my life. It includes the four poems created for my first novel, Camelia in Winter. They cover a range of topics and themes but mostly address personal struggle in a sea of change.The January, 2014 version, includes some political poems on the theme of displacement.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara J. Waldern
    Release dateJul 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476443010
    On the Move
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    Barbara J. Waldern

    Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a graduate of Burnaby Central Senior High School and Simon Fraser University, having studied English lit, French, Spanish, applied linguistics, social policy and anthropology.Has been an ESL instructor, a public service employee, and finally an education researcher before going to teach English in South Korea in 2007. There I taught English to children, university students and working adults. I am also an editor and have recently established a small business called Edwise Editor & Educ. Consultant, Edwise Editor and Education Consultant (#708-1155 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E2P4, Tel: 604-638-329, Fax: 604-605-700, edwise2008@gmail.com, www.edwise2008.com). Just prior to this event, I took editing courses. Always been involved in community and anti-imperialist activism, I have been an advocate and network coordinator for teachers working abroad and locally and I sing in a political action choir. Likes: languages, films, music, art, nature, walking and general physical recreation. Dedicated to writing fiction and other categories of nonfiction since 2008 after many years of writing and presenting academic papers. Find copies of some stuff published since 2013 can be found in the special collections of the Simon Fraser University Library.

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      On the Move - Barbara J. Waldern

      On the Move-a collection of poems

      Barbara Waldern

      Copyright Barbara Waldern 2012, 2014

      Published at Smashwords

      Part One:

      Poems from the novel, Camelia in Winter

      (2008)

      1. Winter Comes

      2. Morning Glory

      3. Ocean and Light

      4. Camelias

      5. Persimmons Harvest

      Winter Comes

      Fruit hangs like hearts from bending tired mothers;

      It is autumn now and they retreat,

      Exhausted from the feeding,

      But generously surrender their offspring.

      Hush, now. Winter comes but will bring forth new life.

      Remember that camelias, ever green, bloom in winter.

      Morning Glory

      A simple vine binds the ground,

      Pulls the weight of fear down,

      Creeps up fences barbed and high,

      Past point of gun to spy.

      Though at night it be closed, down cast,

      The morning brings the flower at last;

      Silent white trumpets herald in glory,

      Rise up and reclaim the nation’s story.

      Ocean and Light

      Some say life is an ocean:

      Succumbing to the tides of change,

      Floods of excess, and

      Droughts by deprivation

      It is always in motion ,

      A vast body always changing shape

      And shifting the sands, itself

      Pushed and pulled by cosmic forces;

      It is both nurturing and destructive,

      It is cause and effect together;

      It can carry us away

      Opening passage to freedom

      Or, swallowing us up.

      It is the arms of refuge and the fist of storm,

      Life sustaining and life extinguishing,

      Inspiring both fear and solace.

      Life is light, too.

      Twilight brings peace in the neutral space

      Between the dramatic glare of the sun

      And the secret smoldering of the night.

      Tonight, the water is calm and

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