dVerse Poets – Poetics – Solitude
Bjorn at dVerse is hosting poetics and has invited us to write about solitude while trying to avoid using the word itself.
Photo: Somewhere between Merredin and Menzies. The bush is my best solitude.
“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”
Pico Iyer
There Are Moments
I gather myself in this place
where the quiet examines me,
knowing that I yearn for it
as a lover yearns for completion,
even so, I avert myself at times
from the uncomfortable rawness of
the self intimacy of such knowing,
preferring to skirt the edges
below the mask so worn,
and yet, there are moments,
fleeting, like the pause of a breath,
within which an elusive thought
awakens my soul.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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So well expressed, Paul.
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Thank you for sharing that Gina.
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You are welcome, Paul.
Punam 😉
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“these are moments, fleeting…”
I agree
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Yes, and thank you.
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There’s some nice wordplay here.
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Thank you Ken.
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It does look a little scary to me. Unknown to me creatures?😉
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Ah, that inner work.
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Lovely work, friend!
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Many thanks indeed.
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I like how thoughts awaken us in the silence.
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If only I could stay with it longer, thank you a Frank.
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Yes, I know those moments.
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I thought you might.
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I love the thought of tiptoeing around those moments we really crave… actually I prefer all my vacations to be unplugged (finding patches of the wilderness without any coverage)
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I’m much the same, wilderness is much better for me.
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Great poem
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So glad you liked it, thank you for sharing that.
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Your welcome ❤️
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🙂
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i just discovered your work and now the day is gone because it is all i will be reading.
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Well that is an honour, thank you so much for sharing that and for reading.
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“I gather myself in this place
where the quiet examines me,”
I like your conscious decision to go to the sacred space, and your openness to commune with it. It becomes interactive. The idea of active (sentient?) quiet gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Conquering fears not easy
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Finding such moments is one best thing one can do in such times.
Good one Paul.
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Yes, so good to be in that moment, thank you Rupali.
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Very nice! Digging down deep on this one!!
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There’s something about that deep work. Thank you Dwight.
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Excellent, Paul! Great quote too.
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Many thanks Lyn, so glad you enjoyed it.
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Excellent poem, Paul! Great quote too.
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🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you Chuck
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I love the wordplay too.Its unique Paul. Thank you!
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Very kind, thank you Michael.
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With a great pleasure Paul!
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🙂
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you express it well … and we persist for the wonder of those moments, those slivers … so powerful!
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Yes, powerful indeed, many thanks Kate.
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my real pleasure!
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You make it seem so easy to write this way – when we know it’s reaching into soul.
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Wow beautifully put
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I thought you’d connect with that.
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