Poetry By Chad Norman : Canadian Poet

Chad Norman

A LIGHT SNOWFALL ON THE SIDEWALKS

 

It is the time,

the Times,

to be writing

about...

the place I visit

as often as

Time allows--

Canada, to be

the place I write

about--

I know you

my country--

damn the politicians

and all the time

lies use their mouths,

to fool the clock,

fool us, fool the fools.

It is time,

the place I find

is my country--

Canada, I want

better for you--

can I speak of you

like you are a you?

Canada,

you allow me to know

travels, many times away,

as someone calls it--

"a time away"-- I will

take it, Canada,

I want to write

about you--

damn the Liars!

All the time

it has taken me

to become, to merge

into the Times,

right here where we

can easily touch

something...or somehow

someone real close...

very real...please.

 

 

A DEFINITION OF FREEDOM

 

 

So far,

as a

Canadian,

I

can say

whatever

I want

to the

World.

 

 

WHY SHOULD I WRITE ABOUT LOVE

 

Robert Smith

unlike any other

Smith

has come through,

until this morning

his song titles

hadn't reached me,

but today I

take upon me

the cure

and open

that which has always opened

when great songs

have reached me,

I have been through it,

and so have

so many others

who won't allow themselves

to be shut down,

to be dumbed down,                            to be the witnesses,

to become the ones

you know you are,

as Allison Goldfrapp                            has asked us

to become, the ones

who must lead now,

the ones who knew

what to do with Love,

unlike me,

at the end

ready to walk endlessly

into all the voices

trying to be human,

but were fooled, were

led from their true voice,

were no different

than the voices of

the Wild, they didn't know

they possessed,

the voices that led me

into a place

I never want to leave,

now the place, with you,

please stay with me.

 

Chad Norman, Truro, NS, Canada

His poems have appeared for nearly 40 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, also translated into Albanian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Czech, Vietnamese, Portugese,  and Hungarian.

 

In October 2016 he was invited by the Nordic Assn. for Canadian Studies to give talks on Canadian Poetry and read from his books at Borupgaard Gym in Copenhagen, and Risskov Gym in Aarhus, as well as other readings in both cities, and Malmo, Sweden. Because of that tour Norman started the manuscript, Counting Coins In Denmark And Sweden.

 In October of 2017 he read at various Eastern Canada venues in Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal, reading poems from his Selected and New collection, published by Mosaic Press (Oakville, ON).

In October of 2018 he read at various types of venues from universities to cafes to pubs throughout Ireland, Scotland, Wales, while there he visited Swansea and slept three nights in the room where Dylan Thomas was born. A celebration of Canadian Poetry took place during this tour too.

His most recent books are a children's picture book, B And Boy, 2023, Cyberwit. Net (India), and a new collection, Parental Forest,  out with AOS publications (Montreal).

Finally, Norman's poem, The Shoulds, has been selected to be included in the Vagabond Lunar Collection, part of the time capsule scheduled for a Fall launch to the moon.

 He is currently a member of  The Writers Union Of Canada, PEN Canada, and a volunteers for 12 local crow families.