The Emily Isaacson Institute
: Discover poetry through the eyes of Emily. . .

 
 
The Arts

 Welcome to the

The Emily Isaacson Institute

postmodern poetry site.

 

The Institute honors the

work and legacy of Canadian

postmodern poet Emily Isaacson.

 

Emily was born December 11, 1975

in Windsor Ontario,

and is poet, photographer

and natural health practitioner

in Mission, B.C. Canada.

 

Enjoy samples of her prolific

and monumentous Canadian poetry;

her photography is

captured locally in the

Fraser Valley.

 

From The Poor Clare Convent

Peace and His Presence during this Lenten season and as we enter into the Holy Triduum of the Lord's Passion and Resurrection. God reward you for sharing your poetry with us, your Sisters. We were honoured to do so and share your inspiration and see the world through the eyes of your heart.

Your imagery is rich and full of colour. Your sensitivity to the world and its people, its animal life and the beauty of nature come through strongly.

 May your message of poetry reach all . . .

 

To make one’s mind an Eden:

from whom, no heathen debt incurred.

A bleak solitude aspired,

her white neck, a yielded treasure.

For every vision, every breath,

a threatened liberty at best,

the winsome hours once light and drear,

the locality of constancy.

Kindly auspice, not without

bleak solitude and dear delight,

The vision, darkened and

the day, secluded.

 

   Emily Isaacson

 

The country, in a maze

Of color and blythe,

The stroke of watercolor

Velvet night,

Oh, swans upon thy wood.

 

  Emily Isaacson

 

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