Writer's Excerpts

The Beaverbrae: (refugee ship sailing from Germany to Canada after World War Two)

by Barbara Hunt

published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto - Book 3

Orphaned, around the world you sail
your ship of hope, a blackened scow
men muttering in darkness, babies wail.

Mothers, grandmothers dipping bale
-ful crusts in strongest tea allowed.
Orphaned, around the world you sail

slung in stacked coffins, you’re availed
some snatch of sleep up in the prow
men muttering in darkness. Babies wail

their cries piercing your drifting veil
of dreams...

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