What Is Canada? A Poem, A Thought

Each province, one of ten spanning for miles to greet the mighty blue Pacific to the west and Atlantic Ocean to the east With three incredibly large territories encompassing the north as far as the Beau fort Sea She is home to the moose and snow, polar bears and buffalo The beaver thumps its tail to be chosen to grace our five cent coin As the maple leaf flies high on our National flag The roots which come from our sugar tree The majestic mountain has the power to look down below in jealousy and spit upon the dancing golden grass of prairie lands The clear blue streams that flow so easily could reject the migrating elk from quenching its thirst at her shores The fish that swim the ocean free could refuse to feed the peoples of the land beyond So could the evergreen forest of the Northern Lands refuse entry to a wayward seed carried in by southern winds beyond the border Nature revels in the evolution of itself It churns, it remolds and resurrects It rests in winter under a blanket of cold precipitation Reinvests in itself Accepts the changes spring inflicts upon it Rebuilds a new clean fragrant self each and every year Different from the season before Not always better, nor worse Just different It's beauty in a constant state of metamorphosis Canada's land is vast and varied it lives in harmony, each facet of beauty enhanced by the contrast of another So too, lives it's cultural mosaic, it's people Each community, province and region different not better nor worse the beauty of the individual magnified by the contrast of their surroundings As the mighty powerful ocean would not even with all its magnificent and varied inhabitants presume to be more important than the mountains high nor the prairies golden nor the forest green As Canada's natural beauty and resources do not envy each other nor try to impose its strength upon the other So too, the peoples of each region know their uniqueness adds to the completeness of the country as a whole Canada is harmony in every way! by C.Whelan Costen 2000