NOV 19, stand on guard (Canada): honoured

 a) Review of material posted on November 19 in previous years ...

2020: Toronto ravines, East Don valley (photo-collage)  
2021: binomial phrases, hunger and thirst (illustrated poem)

2022: Italian loanword, ghetto (illustrated poem) 
2023: exemplification, house (poem)

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unfinished bridge

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b) Today's Offering (Nov 19, 2024):

Authors' Note: 

The above verse gives an apocryphal Canadian response to tongue-in-cheek proposals made in January 2025 for the liberal-leaning New England states to secede from the US.

Collected poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

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