June 18, 2020 · 1:52 pm
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I Might Not Have – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

VJs Weekly Challenge – Pause

Video: A creek in Mundaring.

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Lao Tze

I Might Not Have

I might not have,
urgency possessed me,
my veins electric,
the hands of time at my throat,
unconscious of everything,
until the running water
captured my heart's ears,
I touched the red gum
and felt its skin,
a soft roughness
feathered me,
I took a draft of musk air,
right down to my beginning,
and paused for life,
I might not have.

©Paul Vincent Cannon

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32 responses to “I Might Not Have – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  1. sgeoil
    June 18, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    It was lovely to read the poem while listening to the burbling creek.

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  2. Ana Daksina
    June 18, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Unable to reblog so am forwarding this via copy and paste to my readers at sister site Poetic Justice, with credit

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  3. Rupali
    June 18, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    You did it right.
    Just like nature we should not hurry all the time 🙂

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  4. V.J. Knutson
    June 18, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Love how you have created the contrast between time choking, and the draft reaching “right down to my beginning”.

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  5. equinoxio21
    June 18, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Paused for life? A good idea once in a while… 😎
    (I checked all words. All known to me. I think)😉
    Cheers

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  6. indianeskitchen
    June 19, 2020 at 1:40 am

    How beautiful! Nature makes me pause for life too!

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  9. Liz Gauffreau
    June 24, 2020 at 2:27 am

    This is such a restorative poem! Being in nature is one of the few ways of loosening the hands of time from my throat.

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  10. lync56
    August 13, 2020 at 12:40 am

    Wow this is amazing poem – I love it – it has such deep meaning expressed so well

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