Submitted by
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Airdrie, AB
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Airdrie, AB
Comments:
Nice to see the pic of the well-decorated PMQ on the homepage. It's gratifying to know that those PMQs that were familiar to us kids are still providing comfortable homes to the families stationed there.
I remember that there was a large spruce tree in our yard at #2 Sapper at the corner of Sapper and Royal that my Dad would decorate with lots of lights.
Also nice to see CFB Shilo in the CBC news today, regarding a Gift Drive underway in support of a First Nation community in northern Manitoba struggling under the pandemic.
Nice to see the pic of the well-decorated PMQ on the homepage. It's gratifying to know that those PMQs that were familiar to us kids are still providing comfortable homes to the families stationed there.
I remember that there was a large spruce tree in our yard at #2 Sapper at the corner of Sapper and Royal that my Dad would decorate with lots of lights.
Also nice to see CFB Shilo in the CBC news today, regarding a Gift Drive underway in support of a First Nation community in northern Manitoba struggling under the pandemic.
Added: December 18, 2020
Name: doug
From: balmy Wpg
E-mail: Doug.jordan@gmail.com
feel free to criticize/suggest
SHLOBRAT
this isn't very fair
my mind is quite bare
that's a problem because I can't write
I'm a poet who is writeless
and also quite sightless
the result is I'm feeling contrite
I avoid the condition
that leads to contrition
the backwash from talent's regime
and on that very note
there is something I wrote
so I turn to an earlier theme
it's nothing erstz
they are called "Shilobrats"
I can call each member by name
I can ask for assistance
And meet no resistance
And offer to them much of the same
Each one has potential
for becoming essential
In time and place that remain
It's a sweet dream of mine
that I'll wake up and find
I get to see them again
Now that was no chore
I could have written some more
But I'd have to begin with begat
there is much I could say
but let's leave it this way
I am proud to be Shilobrat
Just a sample from my book of poetry due in the spring.