talebender
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talebender
@talebender.bsky.social
🇨🇦 😷Husband, father, grandfather. ✏️Author, ✏️Poet, 🎶 Singer 😷
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Writers write. Each one differently. There is no magic method or daily word count to suit all. There is only one maxim: writers write.

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Sorry, not sorry, eh! 🇨🇦
The only thing I ever learned about Canada is they'll make any flat service into a hockey rink.
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I may be wrong about this (sorry, eh?), but I wonder if the problem in the US isn’t GOP vs Dems, but big oligarch money (domestic and foreign) in your politics.
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
December 4, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Otter & Osprey Press, a Canadian publisher, has just released a second edition of my thirteenth novel—The Lonely, Silvery Rain. It's available in print and e-book formats, including Kindle.

This safe link will direct you to your preferred online retailer---https://geni.us/thelonelysilveryrain
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
across the water,
singing; bouncing o’er the waves
to our waiting ears

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August 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
my father, a man
I seem to have become now---
I hope he’d be pleased

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August 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
though you’ve grown old and
frail, I still see your awesome
strength and purity

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August 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
the child is father
of the man, as wordsworth wrote---
so nurture the child

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August 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
we’re never so tall
as when we bend down to help
a child who needs us

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August 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
it’s said no good deed
goes unpunished, but I think
that most of them do

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August 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
to free your children,
hug them close, then let them go---
they’ll e’er be with you

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August 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
more yesterdays now
than tomorrows, but it’s the
tomorrows that count

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August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
it’s essential that
we stand for something, lest we
fall for anything

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August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
regrets? some, maybe---
but I can’t go back to change
the pathways I’ve trod

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August 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
he’s lying awake,
remembering all the things
he’d like to forget

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August 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
diamond-clad elves
dancing quite dementedly---
sunlight on the lake

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August 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
north of forty-nine
we speak the King’s English, eh?
and it’s zed, not zee

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August 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
asleep together,
intertwined, we bind our souls
with each breath we take

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August 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
dancing in the rain,
neither of us wet or cold---
warmly wrapped in love

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August 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
A Trump nation that executes prisoners, lets pregnant women die rather than allow them abortions, refuses medical care for the poor, and values guns more than lives is not well-placed to lecture Canada on offering assisted dying for terminally ill people in agony.
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wildfire-smoke sunrise over Lake Ontario
August 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
imagination---
like hot air balloons, slipping
bonds that tie me down

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August 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
grandchildren, our hope
for the future---as we were
once upon a time

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August 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM