Canada Day: Lost In Our Way

You know I hate to do this but our country is lost in its way. I do want my country back.

In that vein, here is my little ditty from my book of poems titled: “Little Poems From The Great White North.”

“Canada Day”

Hip hip hooray it is Canada Day

In our home and our native’s land

Hip hip hooray it’s a time to be gay

From a government that says that you can

 

Hip hip hooray it is Canada’s Day

As our leaderless leaders would cry

Hip hip hooray it is Canada Day

Forget the graft, and the cheats and the lies

 

Hip hip hooray it is Canada Day

With righteousness the bureaucrats hide

Hip hip hooray it’s our national day

Let’s undermine our Veteran’s pride

 

Hip hip hooray, it’s the Canadian way

To lose sight of a national dream

Hip hip hooray on this Canada Day

To be mired in our regional screams

 

So sad to say on this Canada Day

To keep integrity and values at bay

So sad to say on this Canadian day

That my country is lost in its way


This is systematic of the madness we Canadians are faced with today.

Canada renames Vancouver Street from “Trutch” to “Strong WiFi Password.”

“Decolonization”: Woke Canada Renames Street Something Resembling “Strong Wi-Fi Password”

Of course the citizens of this city, the constituents, had no say in this. This is what happens when we are captive to ideology instead of common sense.

My favorite anthem (up until 1980) and the one our brave soldiers fought to in WW1. This was when we had real soldiers and a real fighting spirit. Did you know that it was the Canadian Corp under Curry and the Australian Corp under Monash that won World War 1, during the battle of the final 100 days. Britain took credit for this because the Canadian Corp and the Australian Corp were part of the British Army at the time. The picture represents the Canadian Corp at Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

 

I want my country back!

 

Or a more rousing one – with a thousand bagpipes – one in which we marched to.

Have a great Canada Day.

Shakeyjay………Out.

The Ridge

In the trenches of Vimy Ridge | CBC News

The Ridge

Reflection’s wise. Its true insight flies

Throughout our minds and forever binds us

To eternal life that is devoid of strife.

Just peaceful thoughts, not restless, nor caught

Into a web of war to tread.

Pure madness bred our way to be

Yet as one we brand an ancestral land

As our spirits rise to embrace the sky

And shed away our fears.

 

Our thoughts of home, as our mothers roam

Among our graves, their faces brave

To the sadness here of men with fear.

For our nation’s prayers we died out there

For our home sweet home, so far away.

That knowledge bears our passion, flares

Within our hearts, to love, to shove

Our fears aside and run in stride

To get away from there.

Over top we’d go in whistled floes

That plundered us within gun sight foes.

Such madness…crushed, our brothers flush

With abject fear with those guns so near.

We prayed in silence for our leader’s guidance

For in them we trust, and as Canucks we thrust

So far ahead though we walked with dread.

With the barrage we shudder, our blanket cover

Oh God we’re scared.

 

The earth it shakes… please mothers take us

To your arms and away from harm.

We fell in silence as there’s no pride in violence

We looked ahead for behind ’s our dead.

Their faces seared, no longer feared

Just darkness now with thoughts that bow

To a light that’s gone, forever done.

For now it seems life’s passion stream

Is ebbing some for our time has come.

We fought for glory, each life a story

With silent breath we faced cruel death.

Our youthful brash ‘gainst madness, crashed

Into the mud, the cold, the blood.

That Ridge has been a horror scene.

A Ridge that bears our lives and shares

Blood curdling chills, then silence… killed.

And down we go with our cries now still

Just silent prayers to loved ones shared…so far from there.

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The death knell rings for our lives and brings

A peace you share from that Ridge out there.

Is a peace we paved to our silent graves

With a peace we share in God’s love’s lair.

We were men of arms, a brotherhood

And beyond that Ridge, your nationhood.

With souls set free our spirits now see

Just peaceful lands and a national brand…your nation‘s free!

 

Yet horrendous loss this madness cost…Canadians!

Please…remember us

Mother Canada

The Maple Leaf Forever

It was the theme at the Ridge

3500 Canadians died under this flag: The Canadian Red Ensign flown during the Battle for Vimy Ridge.

Flag, Red Ensign, Canadian | Imperial War Museums

Let us embrace our past. As a proud united nation and not as some post national state as some would have us believe.


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Thanks.

John