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About Me

ROBERT PRIEST:see my new video at visit my songs at myspace.com/robertpriestsongsVisit Robert’s website www.poempainter.comRobert Priest, also known as Dr. Poetry on CBC's Wordbeat, is the author of fifteen books of poetry, a Chalmer's-award-winning play, a hit song, a children's novel and numerous rock CD's and children's recordings His words have been debated in the legislature, posted in the Transit system, quoted by politicians, sung on Sesame street and widely published in text books and anthologies. In 1992 his lyric, Song Instead of a Kiss, was turned into a number one song by Rock diva Alannah Myles and is still played on radio all around the world.Robert lives in Toronto where he is a regular contributor to Now Magazine. "Passionate, cocky alternately adoring and insulting verse." The Toronto Star.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

kate winslett jennifer connelly drew barrymore tony morrison

Music:

beatles, dylan, stones, cobain, marley, james brown,janis joplin, hendrix, aretha franklin, pukka orchestra, louis armstrong, dizzy gillespie, elvis costello, elvis, neil young, aimee mann, alannah myles, alanis, nancy simmonds, allen booth

Movies:

casablanca, groundhog day, magnolia

Television:

stephen colbert jon stewart

Books:

birds without wings louis de berniere helpless barbara gowdy

Heroes:

john lennon, bob marley, gandhi, rosa parks, terry fox, martin luther king, bono, rimbaud, neruda, layton, david suzuki, mandella, marsha kirzner, barbara gowdy, mayakovsky, oscar wilde, robin hood, stephen colbert, jon stewart, joe mendelson

My Blog

our new digs

room after roomhallwaysand heating heatingwe have windows nowand two pillarswe have a porch and a basementwe have a bus stopand streetcarswe have our own garbage truckand a snow ploughwe have ground w...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:48:00 PST

our new wounds

you'll love our new line of woundswider deeper than beforethese are our finest cuts everand bruises to die forif you like welling incisionsif you like a gash with a fringeit might be time to considero...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:22:00 PST

on soles

soles love a good groovesometimes with yogatwo soles can hook into one anotherconnect almost seamlessly.mutual mirror imagesthey despair to think there are still vast gulfs between themnever quite bel...
Posted by Robert on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:20:00 PST

hanging on to my dust

i'm hanging on to my dusti'm sentimentalparticularly about my early childhooddustI've kept my dust all my liferight now it's disorganizedbut one day i'll arrange it in jarsdust from the light yearsdus...
Posted by Robert on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:12:00 PST

things are leaving my house

things are leaving my house in record numberspaper is flying away from methere is a vast migration of chintzy objectspackrat attachments, instruction manualsfor outdated technologiesyes the old techno...
Posted by Robert on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:02:00 PST

The non-violent boxer (for MLK day)

Click to see some non-violent boxingthe non-violent boxer
Posted by Robert on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:38:00 PST

The origin of ’woman’

click hypertext to hear the trackthe origin of 'woman'Not Woe to Manas I once thoughtor evenWomb-Manas the man-fastenedthinkbutWombanas in Terranor Africanor Canadian -- e.g.a native of the WombaWomba...
Posted by Robert on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:58:00 PST

were not stuck

we're not stuckwe're mobilewe come up off the big lockdownwe get round the big road blockwe pull our flesh up off velcro situationswe tug our iron from the magnetand fly onwe're not dammedwe flow, we ...
Posted by Robert on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:24:00 PST

the lost heart wandered

the lost heart wandered looking for its chest. there were dirty wounded open chests everywhere but none of them were right. in the cruel wind of winter the lost heart searched growing ragged, gettin...
Posted by Robert on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:27:00 PST

visit my site on arse book )*(

come look me in the eyeon arse booki'll show you my nakedother selfmy cyclopean gazefull onif you like the pants down glancethe vertical browif you like a wink at 90 degreescome and take inthis sidewa...
Posted by Robert on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:58:00 PST