Rainbow: Pride and Glory of Canada

By Bolin Liu

Rainbow consists of sixty songs and poems, which, like the title of this collection, are sixty rainbows that decorate Canada’s blue sky beautifully. They are symbols of sunshine, beauty, love, hope, happiness, pride and glory. They are odes to Canada’s heroes and heroines: soldiers, peace-keepers, pilots, police, scientists, angels in white—doctors and nurses, especially the ones working amid the pandemic periods, and the angels in charity. They show the world that people feel greatly proud of living in Canada, a great country full of sunshine, beauty, love, hope, happiness, pride and glory, one of the best places for people to live in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669845768

Bolin Liu

Liu, Bolin was born in January 7, 1956, in Huojia Village, Qufu City, Shandong Province, PR China; graduated from Qufu First High School, Shandong University, and East China Normal University Card Training Class Commissioned by The Ministry of Education of PR China; married Ailan Zhang in January 1981; worked in East China Oil University and Jining Teachers College; worked as lecturer, deputy dean (1984–1990) of Department of Foreign Languages, Jining Teachers College; was a visiting scholar to McGill University (August 1990–August 1991); is a life member of International Society of Poets; and is a reporter, editor, and translator. Poems, stories, and translations were published in local newspapers and magazines. Research paper, Prepositions without Objects, was presented at the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium of Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics. Poem “Untitled” was published in “In the Desert Sun” (The National Library of Poetry, Watermark Press, 1994, USA).

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Contents

Foreword

The Poet’s Note

Acknowledgement

1     The Bonfire in the Mountains

2     The Boatyard

3     I Miss You Day and Night

4     My Sweet Heart in the Flag of Canada

5     You Captured my Heart and Soul

6     Oh, Caroline, You Are Always my Sunshine

7     You Smell like a Cup of Sweet and Mellow Wine

8     I Dreamed I Held You in My Arms Tight

9     I had a Sweet Dream the Other Night

10   Lina’s Glory and Pride

11   Love Does Not Mean Complaint

12   Miss Snow, My Bride

13   I Want You to Stay

14   Monica and Her Party of Bonfire

15   Oh I Hope you’re my Romeo

16   The Beautiful Painter and Her Handsome Model

17   The Pretty Girl in her Teens

18   To Be My Maid

19   We Would Have Different Fate

20   Better Separate Now

21   You Loved Me in Your Heart, I Know

22   To My Valentine

23   The Young Beauty of Kahnawake

24   My Sunshine, Magnolia

25   You’re My Charming Star

26   No Love, No Hope and No Gain

27   You’re the Sun in my Heart Never Sets

28   Your Singing Voices Always Linger in my Ears

29   You Are the Source of my Might

30   What a Handsome Guy

31   Our Paradise, Ile–Perrot

32   Please stay out of my Sight

33   Stories and Songs of the Saint Lawrence River

34   Rossy, the Happiest Lady

35   Vernal Rain Brought my Spring–queen: Miss Green

36   I Want to Fly into the Sky

37   Spring Dream

38   Jane Spark

39   The Mayor’s Sweet Heart

40   She Got What she Sowed

41   Love Episode

42   You’re my Future and Hope

43   A Day Full of Pleasure, Surprise and Pride

44   She’s Become my Heart and lovely

45   Rainbow — the Symbol of the White Angels’ Souls

46   A Snowbird

47   A New World with a New Life Appeared

48   Your Heart Always Combined with Mine

49   A Summer Night

50   The Beauty Working in Charity

51   Where Are you, my Sweetheart

52   Let me Wipe Away your Tears (song)

53   Love Belongs to the True and Brave Suitors

54   What a Brilliant Canada Day

55   Nancy, my Beauty, the Fire–fighter Team’s Secretary

56   The Beautiful Nurse—Miss Green

57   Oh, Miss Butterfly Is Always my Rainbow in the Sky

58   Jenny’s Secretary—Shirley

59   Danny and Jean

60   My Sweetheart—Miss Helen White (Song)

Foreword

I sincerely applaud the publication of Professor Liu, Bolin’s second collection of songs and poems, Rainbow: Pride and Glory of Canada, which he composed over the past few decades and recently. Three years ago, Profession Liu sent me his first collection Spring of Love: Beauties of Canada. I was so impressed by the beauty embedded in the poems collected in that book that, ever since then, I have been looking forward to the pleasure of reading more wonderful works by Professor Liu.

Professor Liu, Bolin is an established scholar and poet. The publication of his collections of his songs and poems is a good reminder of his marvelous gift as a poet and writer. With this gift he reveals the aesthetics of love, the love not only between men and women, but also of the nation and the country where he has been living in the past decades. I have nothing but admiration and respect for Professor Liu, who