Josephine LoRe, poet and photographer
... a pearl in this diamond world
Josephine LoRe is a Calgary-based poet and writer who has published two collections of poetry, prose and photography, “Unity” and “The Cowichan Series”, which was a Calgary Herald Bestseller. Her first short story, "Cornflower" was published in 2019.
She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada, Tanka Canada, the Writers' Guild of Alberta, and Calgary's Alexandra Writers' Center Society, She has taught creative writing workshops through the Alexandra and When Words Collide.
Josephine's poetry has been published in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, England, Japan, India, Wales, China, France and Ireland.
Her next undertaking is a collection of poetry based upon her Sicilian heritage.
excerpt from 'Forget Me Not',
published in FreeFall Magazine
I shall sit on the rocks by the water
and comb out my long greying hair
you might call me Rhiannon or Psyche
but you would be mistaken
for I am none of those
I am all
with my silent song shall I summon
sailors, soldiers to my door
watch them collide unencumbered
on the sharp precipice of my shore
I shall pick up shells one by one
listen for lost echo of love
I shall open the oyster
drink deep the elixir
savour each pearl on my tongue
forget me not
excerpt from 'Morning Waxing', for Parkland Poetry's Alberta Culture Days
Magpie, king in this uncontested game of thrones
A raucous bird; no finesse except in flight
Iridescent teal, immaculate chest
He forgot to ask for song so instead,
wings spread wide, writes an ancient tale
A fountain pen across the sky
excerpt from 'Minus the Killing'
published in the 2020
Pandemic Poetry Anthology
I discover I like the dark
walking in the rain
the song of the birds in the morning
All their voices
the questions of the robin
The bossy crow
the tapping and flicker
on the side of my house
My favourite time is dusk
when the sky mutates
from cornflower to periwinkle
And robins again ask
The same questions
I keep my bedroom windows open
for news of the birds
Barbecue sauce the burning of wood