Donna Allard

 

Donna Allard

 

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bewitching hour

star-gazing soul

a cauldron of fireflies

 

 

 

 

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buck moon

peeking over pines

light sleepy eye

 

 

 

 

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stealthy midnight snow

death beholds new beauty

forever longing

 

 

DONNA ALLARD

 

Donna Allard is a professional poet, member of the League of Canadian Poets, Writers Union of Canada, Ohio Poetry Association, and in 2019 she was awarded ‘International Beat Poet Laureate for Canada’ by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. CT USA. She was a three term former President of The Canadian Poetry Association and is a former member of the Writer’s Federation of NB. In 2014 Donna was given a position as Honorary Member in the CCLA (Canada Cuban Literary Alliance) by President Poet Laureate Richard Grove. Donna also served on the executive board of directors for the National Milton Acorn Literary Festival (1986-1995), PEI Canada. After thirty years of being published across Canada and Internationally her writing has been translated into Greek, French, Shetlandic and Bengali. ‘From Shore to Shoormal’, Donna's first book by a trade publisher, co-authored with Shetland Island poet Natalie Hall (Brokenjaw Press, 2013), is in English, French and the nearly lost Old Scot/Shetland dialect. She resides down a long dirt road and lives in a 1909 homestead where muses fill her world with flowing visual poetry.