A POEM-A-DAY
April is a month of voices; soft ones, bold ones, and everything in between.
It’s a time to celebrate poets; the the storytellers, the truth-tellers.
Poetry gives words to what we sometimes can’t say out loud.
This April, let’s read a poem, share a line, write something of our own.
Poetry isn’t just written, it is lived, every single day.
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A POEM A DAY
DAY 1| April 1
RED DRESSES IN THE WIND
In the background, white and blue
outline of the
Rockies.
In the foreground, red
dresses, hundreds of them,
hanging
on barbed wire fencing,
swinging quietly in the wind,
not dancing.
The drums have
stopped, the heartbeats, 582,
have stopped.
There was a honour walk one day
to remember the lives stolen,
snaking along highway one.
I remark, odd
they have an RCMP escort.
Where were they before?
Had they driven down this
highway of tears
and never once looked
in the rearview mirror,
or in the ditches?
She hangs
her red dress
on a tree
like a crucifix
its imprint burned upon
skin,
a branding iron
of destruction.
This is not
my lived experience.
I am not Indigenous.
I cannot know the crushing anguish
of history.
I attempt to be an ally,
because
I am a daughter,
I am a sister,
I am a mother.
This year
I too
will walk.
Patricia M Wourms © 2026
DAY 2 | April 2
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DAY 3 | April 3
DAY 3 | April 3
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DAY 4
DAY FIVE
DAY 3 | April 3
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DAY FIVE
DAY FIVE
DAY FIVE
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DAY 6
DAY FIVE
DAY FIVE
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