Watching The World Go By

In this intimate poetry podcast episode, Watching the World Go By I invite you to slow down and step outside the noise of everyday life. Through gentle imagery and quiet invitation, the poem drifts from mountaintops to coastal highways, offering a shared escape where time loosens its grip and worry fades into the background.

This is a meditation on companionship, imagination, and the simple freedom of going nowhere in particular. Close your eyes, take the ride, and spend a few moments watching the world go by, one breath, one dream, one grain of sand at a time.

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Valentino

Valentino is a poem that lingers in the quiet places, where the glow of late-night movies softens the room and memory presses close. It’s a portrait of love that doesn’t demand a spotlight, a devotion measured not in grand gestures but in the simple act of staying.

As the silver-screen heroes sweep your breath away, the poem offers something humbler, truer: presence. A promise to return when the glow fades, to love without costume or script.

In the soft echo of “If I were Valentino,” the poem reveals its heart, longing, yes, but also acceptance. A gentle reminder that real love isn’t always cinematic.

Sometimes it’s just two people, side by side in the dark, choosing each other when the credits roll.

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Fall

Sometimes I truly love the fall. The colours seem almost unreal, gold, amber, and deep red leaves drifting through the air like tiny brushstrokes. The scent of damp grass, pine trees, and woodsmoke has a way of slowing everything down, inviting you to breathe a little deeper and appreciate the changing season.

But fall also brings a different kind of feeling. As the air grows colder and frost begins to gather in the mornings, I can’t help but feel a quiet uncertainty. There’s something about the shorter days and the hint of snow in the clouds that makes time feel slippery, as if the year is rushing toward its end faster than would like.

So I meet fall with both warmth and hesitation, grateful for its beauty, yet mindful of the way it reminds me that everything changes, ready or not.

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Life

This poem is about life and the idea that it’s sometimes like being swept up by something larger than yourself, forced to climb “treacherous mountains” and tumble down “rolling hills. Resistance doesn’t stop the motion, you just have to ride it out.
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I See Your Face

A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between. This piece invites listeners to look beyond the surface and consider what’s behind every expression. In this episode, I share the poem and dive into the ideas that inspired it, offering thoughts that might resonate with your own experiences.

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A reflective poem exploring the stories written on our faces, age, experience, joy, pain, and everything in between.
The video and the song were written and developed during Covid.

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I Watch The Clouds

So my poems rhyme, most of the time, and that’s because a lot of my poems become songs. However, this one did not but, it’s still one of my favourites. On a cold Ontario morning, I was staring out a window at a typical December gale, and this is what I thought.

The poem, I Watch The Clouds. An image of a person in a winter jacket and tam looking out on a winter landscape

Welcome

Welcome to Poems & Other Songs, a curated collection of unique poems and songs that weave tales resonating with the human heart in all its complexity.