November 16 2016: I was recently honoured to be featured in an article by Canada's premier lifestyle magazine NUVO: "The Poets Laureate of Canada. What does it mean to be a Canadian poet laureate?" To view just point your browser to: ~~>
November 19 2016: A newly-added poem, "just because".
"just because" ©pj johnson 2016
just because you have nonverbal learning disorder
doesn’t mean you cannot learn
just because you have ADD
doesn’t mean you are not smart
just because you are overweight
doesn’t mean you are not beautiful
just because you are old
doesn’t mean you are less
just because your pockets are empty
doesn’t mean you are poor
just because your wallet is full
doesn’t mean you are rich
just because you love someone
doesn’t mean they will love you back
just because you lose someone
doesn’t mean they are gone from your heart
just because you feel the pain
doesn’t mean you always will
just because someone disagrees with you
doesn’t mean they are wrong
just because someone hurt you
doesn’t mean you cannot mend
just because you are different
doesn’t mean you are not worth loving
just because
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November 12 2016: "discovery" an unpublished poem was recently included in an article by NUVO Magazine.
*Inspired by the image of a life-sized carving that portrayed an aboriginal man crouched in a forest to behold the first European footprint in North America, I wrote the following poem.
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"discovery" – ©pj johnson October 1992
somewhere
deep
within the forests
of an old
and northern nation
a lone warrior
spent with tracking
pauses in the wind
to kneel among ferns
and cast an eye
upon the print
of one so foreign
that the wisdom
of millennia
and even the bones
of his ancestors
cannot comprehend
it
(“discovery” a poem by pj johnson from https://pj-johnson-yukon-poet-laureate.webnode.com/)
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August 8th 2016: Well I had a great time on my recent trip down to the bright lights of the B.C. Lower Mainland (or as I call it 'The Big Smoke'). It's always an adventure to visit the big city but I'm equally delighted to return home to My Beautiful Yukon! Here are a few highlights of my trip.
I met up with the great folks at Poetry New West where I made some new friends and reconnected with others!
I was pleased to share a few of my creative compositions.
I enjoyed a stay at the RiverRock Hotel & Casino - didn't even lose my shirt!
I went down into Vancouver to play for awile....
I had a great bike ride around Stanley Park and a quick game of hide n' seek....
And it's back home to the Yukon. Ready - Set - Yukon River! 
Some things just feed your soul!
And we're back home in my studio. Hey I had so much fun I just might compose a song about it.
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On July 24th 2016 I was invited to join the folks down at Poetry New West in New Westminster B.C. Here is a selection of videos of me sharing a few of my creative works on that afternoon. ~ Videos courtesy of Ken Ader 'The Video Guy'.
On July 24th 2016 I was invited to join the folks down at Poetry New West in New Westminster B.C. Here is a selection of me sharing a few of my creative works on that afternoon. ~ Videos courtesy of Ken Ader 'The Video Guy'.