Poems from the Heart

By Benjamin Powell Jr

This little book of poems and stories is about about some of the places I've lived as a little boy in Canada's North , a little fishing community called Square Islands, that I have so many fond memories of. Other poems are about events like Cains Quest; an endurance snowmobile race across Labrador's interior, and other poems about love . My mom loved poetry and so did my dad who wrote a book of poems himself and was very good at reciting poems. As a boy I loved to recite Robert w Service who was my favourite poet . I try to write poems that people can relate to and that have a story to tell and has meaning, I hope you enjoy my little stories and poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543458305

Benjamin Powell Jr

I grew up in a little fishing community in the summer months called Square Islands Labrador, in Canada's North Atlantic. When September rolled around we moved back inland 13 miles to a little place called Charlottetown. When there was a tree line and the weather conditions weren't as harsh as the barren coastline where Squares Islands was situated. I grew up fishing for cod as a boy and young man and in my early twenties I went to flying school and became a commercial pilot but l always had a love for poetry.

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Rev. date: 10/18/2017

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CONTENTS

My Old Square Islands Shore

Oh, Kuujjuaq Won’t You Take Me Back

I Believe I Can Fly

It Was Only A Dream

I Wish That You Were Mine Again

The Great Cain’s Quest.

Labrador Lady

The Cycle of Life

My Dear Old Mom.

Being a Friend

Booze Can Bring the Best Down.

I Beat the Damn Devil, But It Was Only a Hag.

Old Tom Lustcum was an Awful Crook.

Meeting on Muskrat Falls

Old Tom Inuk Races in Cain’s Quest With George Rodgers as partner

The Land God Gave Cain

I’ll Stand by You My Ol Sweetie.

Cain’s Quest Song

The Sunshine

You’re an Angel to Me

Flying the Sky.

Gimli girl.

I’m still flying along our coastline.

Old Tom Inuk the Labrador legend

Hopedale, I miss you.

Williams harbour why do you have to go

My old Labrador home by the sea.

To My Wife;

Courage to Love Him

Old Blanc Sablon

Labrador beauty

It was putt putt in the harbour way back in my day.

Forever entwined until eternity.

Lovely ole loser.

Tossing and Turning So Gentle and Free

Is there a heaven or a hell

My ol home in Labrador

Someone Will Answer on That Great Judgement Day

Grand Banks

The way it was

If tomorrow never comes

Our world that keeps on changing

It stays the same

How different our things from when I was a boy

Santa is coming to Labrador

A Dear mothers love.

Never hold a grudge

The old lady did say

You’re an angel to me

Battle harbour is not like it was.

Tribute to my father

A song I wrote about Winston White

A little girl and a little boy

An innu boy and innu girl

No one seems to care.

If anything changed I’d let her know

Be gentle and be kind.

I thought I was tough he said as he cried.

Nothing feels better to an old fart like me.

Just a dreaming

I have a guardian angel that is with me everyday.

If you believe his mother did say.

Labrador the land I love.

Broken Dream

Square Islands harbour memories.

My beautiful Lady Labrador.

A Square Islands tale

Skipper Harry Morris beats the devil.

You’re My Angel Deep Inside.

She Was A Beautiful Lady.

My Old Square

Islands Shore

Just to wake up in the morning, to the chirping sounds once-more, oh those little birds now singing just outside your cabin door

And the smell of salty ocean as you walked along the shore, are the memories I remember from my home in Labrador

And the motorboats all steaming from their fishing grounds again, as the gulls they keep on squawking for more liver and guts for them

And those calm and peaceful waters where the sound bones used to fall as you worked and toiled all evening after another codfish haul

And the fishing boats would come and the fishing boats would go, as you played with all your buddies just outside of ole Rum Cove

And the stage heads all lit up in the evening twilight glow, as the crews they worked and toiled with another cod trap load

But those times have changed forever you won’t see them anymore, just the way it used to be all along our scenic shore

Oh, the memories I remember and the love that I recall, from my days in ole Square Islands from spring to the early fall

From my days in ol Square Islands from spring to the early fall

Written by Benny Powell

Oh, Kuujjuaq Won’t You Take Me Back

A little small girl so friendly and free once played on the streets where home used to be, where the people were friendly and would talk to you about the polar bears and the caribou

Oh, Kuujjuaq won’t you take me back where the caribou call their habitat, where the polar bears still love to roam and the seals and otters still call their home

Where sealskin boots still can be seen and the northern lights are so serene, in Kuujjauk where my mind goes back

In Kuujjuaq where my mind goes back and to the caribou and their habitat, where polar-bears still love to roam and the seals and otters still call their home

And someday I’ll leave for home once more where I grew up on that northern shore

Where the people are friendly and they’ll talk to you about polar bears and the caribou, oh Kuujjuaq won’t you take me back

And someday I’ll leave for home once more where I grew on that northern shore, where people are friendly and they’ll talk to you about polar bears and the caribou

Written by Benny Powell

I Believe I Can Fly

I believe