News
1. Balcony collapse
New school year party
Drink and flirt in cool night air
World comes crashing down
2. Burnside jail
Incarcerated
The cruel crime of punishment
Spiteful warden smirks
3. Northern Pulp Mill
Verdant forest land
People happily employed
Filthy air to breathe
4. Elderly
Visit New Scotland
Enjoy the land and people
Stay to die
5. Wild Kingdom
Bluefin tuna swim
In warm waters off Iceland
The ocean is sick
Halifax boardwalk
Beautiful natural vistas
Red in beak and claw
Classy restaurant
All the finest food and wine
Wild things have no chance
Views
1. Stephen Archibald
Ho-hum pay the bills
Open pile of envelopes
Visual delight!
2. Jim Meek
End of the world blues
Giant rats will rule the Earth
Yeah, Armageddon!
3. Bill Black
The AntiChrist comes
Wearing the union label
Liberals will save us!
4. Gail Lethbridge
Sing O Canada
O people with lady parts
Conservatives hate you
Noticed
Barack Obama
Winner of Nobel Peace Prize
Seven countries bombed
In the harbour
Montreal mafia
Containers of who knows what
Maersk Palermo
Ruby Princess cruise
If it’s Saturday it’s Halifax
Another cocktail
Look! A boardwalk hawk!
Seven Seas Navigator
Let’s buy some trinkets
AIDABella comes
Fending off norovirus
Home away from home
Gypsum for Quebec
Independent nation of wallboard
Atlantic Huron sails
Footnotes
Morning perversion
Bad poems that don’t even rhyme
I promise: never again
I kinda liked the bad poems.
hilarious
This was better in concept than in execution.
Worthy of a shot though Tim!
Misrhymed poems!
I snort cheerios
through nose.
Bravo Obama
His peace prize
Funniest of all.
Ship reports
make plans for cruising retirement
queasiness-inducing.
Morning file haiku
Something different Saturday
Gives the readers pause
Sleep deprivation is a wondrous thing.
Today’s file is either Tim’s emergence into true genius or the beginning of his descent into incomprehensibility.
Readers await.
Keep your day job Tim
Market for journalistic
Poets: limited.