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Indelible Wholeness
The tide turned
from paucity to obscenity
with omnipotent enthusiasm
fit for a god,
Noah was a dullard,
two would never suit
four, six, ten,
never a slice or a sip
the whole damn lot,
repetitive
naked carnality
right down to the bone
with alacrity,
an impossible consumption
and yet,
the corrective of
silence,
stillness,
awareness.
nature’s abundant
ever present beauty,
an indelible wholeness,
truly satisfy my soul.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Incredible poetry, I loved the opening lines… but i loved it all, the whole of it.
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Thank you so much for those encouraging words, very kind.
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🙂 Very sweet piece!
My sister-in-law thought that i was strange and “very wrong” when i told her that i didn’t believe that Noah put all of the pairs of animals on an ark and saved them. So i guess i’m strange and wrong.
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Then she would think me completely warped 🙂
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Perhaps buy her Joseph Campbell’s works as a strange gift 🙂
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Triple WOW…those final 2 lines really blessed me, as I’m enjoying the same experience today…and SO Thankful!
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Thank you so much, appreciate your encouraging words.
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You’re most welcome always.
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With you on this one
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Thank you.
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Love this poem! Of course, I have always liked “the rest of the ark story”: Noah’s wife had the real clarity of thought as she gathered seeds from all the plants of the Earth. Those animals would need food in the new world!!
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Truly amazing poem, Paul. I love the last line ”nature’s abundant ever present beauty, an indelible wholeness, truly satisfy my soul.” Nature truly satisfies my soul too.
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I thought as much, I sense that from your writing, thank you for sharing.
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cute and very different again, I relate to the later part 🙂
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Thank you Kate
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welcome Paul!
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🙂
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So good to reach the “Indelible Wholeness”.
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Thank you so much Amy.
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Wow that one went deep – had to read it twice to see
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Yes, the true path is never the ego.
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