Monthly Archives: January 2013
Call for submissions
Main & Station will be opening an art gallery as part of the depARTment store we will be operating in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. We are looking for art works for both exhibition and sale.
We are looking for contemporary Art, Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, Photography etc. All submissions will be juried. Please contact us at [email protected].
Hopewell Rocks
The reddish cliffs of the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick offer another spectacular landscape in which to experience Fundy’s tides.
Hopewell Rocks
I left my footprints on the ocean floor,
Knowing they would be no more
When Fundy’s tide has swept them clean.
No trace that I have been
Standing in the mud and sand
Gazing at this Wonderland
Of sculpted rocks and fissures deep,
Where rushing waters come and sweep
With relentless force of spray
All the yesterdays away.
I wondered then, “Who came before?”
How many other footprints on the ocean floor?
Or was there once an upward thrust
When ocean floor turned into mountain crust.
Did dinosaurs then in murderous play,
Leave their victims in the clay?
Again perhaps, more recently
When land was covered by invading sea,
A fish swam slowly down to rest
On self-same spot my foot will press,
And musing thus, it came to me
That we are children of the sea.
Twas long before the age of man;
A creature left the ocean floor
To make its home on solid shore,
But locked within its memory
Was its bondage to the sea.
That sea comes crashing over sand and stone
Claiming what it calls its own.
I left my footprints on the ocean floor
Knowing they would be no more
When Fundy’s tide has swept them clean.
By: Elizabeth D’Ambrosio 2012
(Published previously in: Twigs & Leaves. Volume V. 2012, Broken Rules Press)
Elizabeth D’Ambrosio was born in Germany in 1920 and immigrated to Canada as a child. A member of the Greenwood Poets since 2009, she regales her audiences with humorous poems as well as those that move the spirit and strike at heartstrings. Elizabeth is an avid speechwriter, bridge player, traveller, and painter. Her editorials and poetry have been published in the Montreal Gazette, on CBC, on the poetry website www.poetsagainstwar.ca , and in several chapbooks, namely, “Passages,” published by the Greenwood Centre for Living History, “Twigs & Leaves” published by Broken Rules Press, and Memories, a self-publication.