Winnipeg Senior Citizens Writers' Workshop

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Autumn Leaves 2003
Acrobat File

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Autumn Leaves
Poetry in italics

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Foreword

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Beryl Aitken

• A Memorable Event
• Tenting it to Banff

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Lucy Andrusko

• Help Me, Help Yourself

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Hazel Borodey

• Our Evening Walk

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Murdina J. Brownlee

• The Red River
• The Sword
• "To"
• Variations on a Scene

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Ann Cameron

• Winter Festivities

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Margaret Cracknell

• A Death in the Family
• Aliens
• Annie's Family
• Are You a Believer?
• Arthur
• Believe It or Not
• Bounty
• Coming Home
• David
• Five Hundred Brides
• Fisherman
• Gardening
• Getting Rid of Stuff
• It's That Smell
• Luscious Smells
• New Year's Eve
• Postcard from Abroad
• Rollicking Bruegel
• School's In
• Something Fishy Going On
• Sussex
• The Doll
• ThePoppy
• The Lovesick Stutterer
• The Old Man’s Tale
• The Widower
• Village Easter
• Why Write?
• Warm Thoughts from a Cold Clime

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Emma Degen

• Parody on "Sea Fever"

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Alex Domokos

• A Cup of Tea
• A Cup of Tea (II)
• A Lesson in Humility
• A Pail of Vodka
• A Question of Nobility
• A Visit to the Chilean Altiplano
• Christmas in the Chapel
• Christmas Spirit
• Defeat Without Surrender
• Excerpt from my Autobiography
• Farewell to Ché Guevara
• Golden Rule
• Life's Like That
• Moon-Man
• Pointillist
• Nothing Versus Nothingness
• Tamara
• Thanks
• The Answer of the Philosopher
• The Russian Character
• The Statue
• Water
• Reminder
• Victory

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Jean Duncan

• A Reunion in Glasgow

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Dorthi Dunsmore

• Detour Through Shadow
• Gestation
• The Bomb
• Today's Fiend
• It Will Come to Me
• January, Merlin
• Poetry 1995-96

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Emily Fedewick

• August
• Christmas at the Richardson’s
• Poetry 1994-95

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Jack Francis

• A Koan
• A Life on Wheels
• Oh, Baby
• On Meeting My Double
• Shade Shine
• The Big Bronze Statue
  on the Main Floor Wept
• The Blizzard
• The Bolder the Stanza
  the Better the Cadenza
• Waiting for that RSVP
• What About the Other Road?

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Lois Francis

• Hymn of Creation
• Invasion of Portugal
• Lament for Andrew Yates
• Oscar
• Prayer in Time of Grief
• Rice Pudding
• The Anthrax Scare
• The Christmas Beard
• The Painting On My Wall
• The Truth of T. S. Eliot
• The Wall of Hands
• West Coast Ireland

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Christa Froese

• Darkness
• For Better or Worse
• For K
• Of Mice and Stockings
• Summer
• The Pine Tree
• Do You Think of the Children?
• Many Hands

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Barbara Goldhawk

• Autumn Daze
• A St. Francis Day Service
• More About Those Good Old Days
• The Good Old Days are Back
• This Caps It All

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Lilian Gowans

• The Running Fishmongers

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Mary A. Green

• An Extraordinary Joe
• Anna's Room
• Aunt Annie's Doorbell
• Beyond Fences
• Birdie
• Bowl from the Family Farm
• Filigree
• Going
• Hanging In
• Holme-Ward Bound
• Imaginary Men
• in my medicine chest
• In Search of Snakes
• Little Boys Play Noisy Games
• Making Minestrone
• Marshmallows in the Bath
• Mind Over Matters
• Mustard Plaster Medicine
• My Anemone Spring
• No Room for Peppermints
• No Time for Being Sick
• On the Ward
• Pocketbook Progeny
• Poets
• Snow Angels
• Susie's Dress
• The Question of My Soul
• Who, Where, When, What and How Come
• Will the Real Sean Connery Please Stand Up
• Wisdom of the Birds
• Poetry 1994-95 Poetry 1995-96

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Milton Howard

• Contemplating When
• Little Victory
• The Unified Field
• Passion
• Poetry 1994-95

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H. Vi Jamieson

• Astral Valentine
• Cat on a Pumphouse Roof
• Inner Light
• January Morning
• Murder on North Drive
• Naked Moment
• Revelation
• Song of Being
• Song of Resurrection Morning
• Word Snapshot of Sea Gardens, Pompano Beach, Florida, March 4, 2000

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Virginia Johnson

• Brother's Trapline
• The Solitary Fisherman
• My Singing Career

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Eileen Krahn

• A Musical Moment
• The Christmas Concert
• The Invisible Age
• What's New?

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Violette Kuly

• A View of Creation
• A Winter's Night in the Country
• An Allegory of the Wheatfield
• Ballad of Suzy Magrew

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Ann Lancaster

• Stop Thief

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Mae Langdon

• Born on the Farm

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Sam Loschiavo

• A Grasshopper's Lot is Not a Happy One
• A Santa Claus Story With a Twist
• A Face Etched by War
• Bless our Bones
• Bully for Me
• Check Your Cheque
• Crossing the Border
• Eggs and Bread
• Here Lies
• Holy Hell
• Horsebun Hollow
• Human Behaviour Does Not Change
• Insurance for the Hereafter
• Jackpot
• Merciful Heavens
• Monuments to His Memory
• My Friend Frank
• My Old Shoe
• Pines or Palms
• School Days! Rule Days!
• Smoke Got in His Eyes
• Sniffles, Sneezes and Snake Oil
• Sticks, Stones and Society
• Sweet and Sour
• That was a Wedding
• The Award
• The Circle
• The Skit
• Where's the Meat?

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Barbara MacDonald

• Adolescent Romance
• A Struggle for Communication
• My Reactionary Kitchen

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Ruth Martinussen

• The Smug Senior
• The End of a Resolution

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Sheila Maurer

• A Visit to My Great Aunt
• Believe it or Not
• Carrots
• Conversation
• Defeat
• Do You Believe in Miracles
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Episode in a Cathedral
• Holiday Experience - Hibernia
• Santa's Shoes
• September 11, 2001
• September 11, 2001
• The Mating Game
• The Ordeal
• The Penthouse Players
• Three Reactions
• The Play's the Thing
• Toothpaste
• To Swallow or Not to Swallow
• Why St. Valentine's Day?

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Flora McCallum

• Fact? Fiction? Or Both?

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Anna McDonald

• A Bonsai Plant
• A Farm Vacation
• A Hospital Visitation
• A Moment of Reflection
• A Teacup of Hope?
• At Day's End
• Blue Ribbon
• Bread - The Staff of Life
• Caress Me, My Love
• Christmas Angels
• Cinquian
• Haiku
• Haiku
• Haiku
• Haiku
• His First Ice Cream Cone
• Medicine
• Meghan's Wish
• My Double
• My Grandmother
• Neighbourly Music: A Dialogue
• Physiotherapy
• Resolutions
• Silence
• The Moon
• The Morning Hours
• The Rainbow
• The Wedding
• Two Girls on a Swing
• Snake
• Today
• The River called "Li"

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Mabel M. Mollard

• Invitation to Live
• Keeping the Records
• My Heart Aches

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Fred Narvey

• Buddies
• Campus Bound
• First Teacher
• Good Neighbours
• Kidnapped
• Maid in Greece
• Orphans of the Storm
• Teamwork
• The Big Award
• The Coordinator
• The General's Overcoat
• The Substitute
• The Private Citizen
• The Prodigal Son Returns
• Winter Holiday

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Harold Richman

• A Day in the Park
• Breaking the DNA Code
• Columbo Solves a 65 Million Year-Old Mystery
• Darwin and Mendel
• Except in Newfoundland, Half an Hour Later
• Isaac Newton
• It is Time we Reconsidered our Position in Nuclear Energy
• Lincoln
• Numbers
• Panthera Tigris
• Plant Movements
• Slash-and-Burn
• Stanley and Livingstone
• "The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!"
• The History of the Earth in 1400 Words
• This Day Has 24 Hours
• The World's Most Powerful Telescope
• Vladimir Horowitz
• Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
• What if Beethoven Had Been Forced to Retire at 65
• What if Joe Green Had Been Forced to Retire at 65
• What if Julius Caesar Had Been Forced to Retire at 65
• What if Napoleon Had Been Forced to Retire at 65
• What if Pablo Picasso Had Been Forced to Retire at 65
• What if Shakespeare Had Been Forced to Retire at 65

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Gisela H. L Roger

• Escaping?
• The Fine Art of Paper Cutting

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Thelma Sekerka-Bajbus

• The Silver Lining
• Poetry 1994-95

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Jean Mary Shephard

• Hatches, Matches and Dispatches

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Libby Simon

• A Tale of Travail on the Trail
• Down the Up Slopes
• The Lights of Hanukkah

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Helen Smith

• Our Park Warden
• Poetry 1994-95

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Nettie Stadnyk

• A Christmas Miracle
• All Alone
• Button Up
• Dimples
• Election 2000
• A Memorable Etching
• Go-F'r Tail
• Doctor Dad
• God's Intervention
• Gumdrop
• Hot Bum
• Joys of Creating
• My Bahbkah
• Skinny Poem
• The Last (?) Tantrum
• Toothpaste
• Truth Prevails
• Ungracious Ending
• What's In a Name?

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Helen Symes

• My Mother's Purse
• Remembrance
• Stones
• Yuppies You Are

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Margaret Ullrich

• Bus Sightings
• Cholesterol Blues
• On My Way
• Portuguese Fisherman

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Agnes Wall

• 1987
• A Fable
• Algernon's Fable
• All About Aunt Anne
• Doctor
• Fish Story
• Hang Loose
• Love
• Mother
• My Heart Bleeds
• New Business
• New School
• Peace on Earth
• The Little House in the Back
• The Orange Sweater
• We Take a Taxi
• Wine

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Peter Warner

• A Thing of Beauty
• The Girls
• The Hat and the Hatpin

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George A. Warnock

• The Forgotten Man of the Hour

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U. (Rick) Woelcke

• Longing
• The Caress at the Affable Incline
• The Best Teams Around
• Tinka

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Olof Wood

• An Incompetent Gardener
• Christmas at Eyolfstodum
• Heart of the Continent
• Husbands
• My Winnipeg
• Remembrance Day
• The Romance in my Marriage
• X and I

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William Wood

• Crossing the Atlantic
• The Longest Night
• Who Said That?

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Anne Yanchyshyn

• The 2001 Brier
• A Limerick
• Getting at the Facts
• 2001 Grey Cup Weekend
• i do battle with fish
• instant replay in winnipeg
• June in December
• Love Birds - Charisma be Darned
• robin redbreast
• There's One in Every Crowd - A Fable
• Two Girls on a Swing

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Jean Young

• Is it All Right to Steal Sometimes?
• Lonely
• Our Pathways
• The Golf Ball
• Reminder
• The Meadowlark
• Poetry 1994-95
• Poetry 1995-96

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