dVerse Poets – Poetics – Madness
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“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.” Thomas Moore
It Had Wandered
If only she could paint them,
but the colours were all wrong
they were coming too fast
and speaking real slow,
collecting at her temples
and bursting in her ears
while the words on the news-stand
started flying and though
she tried, she couldn’t catch them
and put them back except that
one word, evol, which
creased her brow and
made her hide inside herself,
till I turned it around
at which she cried and laughed
and held her head and
sang a song,
even so, she didn’t trust that
word, it spoke of all the wrongs,
a wasted life and a cruel hope
just out of reach,
but there was no madness in her,
it had wandered down the street.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Evol it, Paul!🙂❤️
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Ha, yes indeed, thank you for that Punam.
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My pleasure, Paul. 🙂
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I don’t know what to say, Paul, except that you have a gift for touching the core of human experience. Once again, I feel as if you have teleported over here and peeked in at my world. I’ve been trying to put it on paper, and there you are, expressing it so well.
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I can only say I have been privileged to work with so many people and their colourful lives, amazing. Well, I’m gobsmacked that it could possibly be so – but there it is, wonderful connection, and thank you so much VJ.
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So very welcome, Paul.
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Don’t you just love it when poetry does this?
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I do!
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🙂
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Oh, absolutely, when it really speaks where you are it is amazing, thank you too Liz.
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So much to like about your poem in fact I evol it 😉 from the very first line, the poem never lets up with all her impressions and keeps a great pace too. Thanks for joining with the prompt Paul
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I love how you manage to describe someone’s experience of a madness, when you cannot really see, or describe or maybe make it stick on a single word….
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Yes, I’ve never experienced it but I have worked with many who have and even then to try and capture it is difficult. Thank you Bjorn, appreciate your response.
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A really touching piece Paul I love the opening descriptions, I can feel it with your character…and that madness wandered down the street.
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I really appreciate your response, thank you for sharing how the poem impacted you, and especially that you liked it.
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Bravo Paul, so well done. And I love the two closing lines.
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Thank you for that compliment Linda, it is for those I know, such a different world, glad to know that those lines spoke in some way.
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stunning depiction …
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Kate, thank you for the wonderful compliment.
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It may not be our reality, but it is theirs. Sensitivity and respect are key. I’m ashamed to say I’ve failed in both with my loved ones in this regard.
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It is easier when you work with them or have friends, but when it is family it is the most testing experience of all, be gentle on yourself 🙂
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❤ Thank you.
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Pleasure 🙂
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Those last two lines… the madness leaves as inexplicably as it comes on.
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You got it in one, yes indeed, as if it never happened. But overall, never to judge, simple to love. Thank you so much.
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Amazing, Paul! You have an uncanny way of looking within!
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Thank you Eugenia, I do feel that there is something in me of that.
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You’re welcome.
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Many thanks for that Eugenia 🙂
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
RATHER THAN EVOL-UTION, LOVE’S THE SOLUTION! :0)
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Many thanks Jonathan
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ORT-ORT-! 😀
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