Category: Poems

Sunday Blues

  Sunday morning, soul sad an’ blue Singin’ a song an’ cryin’ some too.   Sunday is foggy, a misty haze Sound of a bell from my growin’-up days. Church bells past call my soul to be still But most of the time they give me a chill.   Clang! This is God! I drop […]

A Poetry Lesson

I learned a poetry lesson from a 14-year-old girl while she was in high school. Today she’s not in my life anymore, but I see on Facebook that she is a mother. Iambic Pentameter is poetry. Each line has five soft syllables, each one followed by a hard syllable: taDa, taDa, taDa, taDa, taDa. Iambic […]

Earth Quaker

My name is Irv Kroeker, pronounced Erv Kraker. I was at a noisy party back in California, being introduced to someone.

“What?” the stranger asked. “Earth Quaker?”

Hence the name of this website (and later book).

The name is strengthened by the fact that I lived in San Jose on the San Andreas fault, where an earthquake will surely happen again. The last one, registering 6.9 on the Richter scale, happened October 17,  1989, when the Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed. 

WHY THIS WEBSITE

We all seek immortality, like famous people; writing things down helps achieve it.

I will never be famous like Churchill or Ghandi, so my immortality will rest between the covers of a book that in two or three generations after me will seldom be opened.

Now I live in the moment of my last years, hoping I will be remembered by my grandchildren.

The Earth Quaker will help.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Irvin James Kroeker

89 McAdam Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
R2W 0A3

Website: irvkroeker.com
Email: irvkroeker@gmail.com
Phone: 204 887 5952