“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.” Gregory Maguire
An Urgent Joy The night has come at last and I sit in a silence encroached in a ponderance of shadows speaking an ancient language of where love has been these past days, while there on the ceiling writ large, a love letter of darkness transformed into a subtle beauty of greys, a life life worth living towards a celebration of light that tones my life with an urgent joy. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Beautiful lines! ❤️
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Thank you so much
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You’re most welcome.
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Love this!
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Thank you Cindy 🙂
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You are most welcome Paul! 💕
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I understood the imagery you created in the first few lines and I can appreciate that. But I am scared that I didn’t understand the rest, although I tried my best. We all are free to add our context and interpret the meaning but I am just stuck.
“where love has been these past days,
while there on the ceiling writ large,”
If there is a shadow then there must be light. Love was there, it was always there! You happen to realise (read) it now. It’s the light that brought that subtle transformation. Hence, it is to be appreciated.
And I am very curious to know the climax. What is this urgent joy?
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Ah, the urgent joy is the realisation that we have both shadow and light and we must not worry about that, rather focus on the love that is there, it is unconditional love, and there needs to be no self judgement. But you are welcome to take your own meaning. Poetry is for where you are at in the moment of your life. Thank you you far asking. 🙂
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And thank you for explaining :).
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My pleasure 😀
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I do appreciate the notion of reaching toward the light with an urgent joy.
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The only way I feel we can move forward.
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Yes, I agree.
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🙂
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Such a beautiful reflection
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Lovelyyy 🙂❤
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Many thanks 🙂
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My pleasure 🙂❤
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🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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I love your play with shadow and light. Thank you Paul!
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And thank you for sharing Michael.
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Always with a great pleasure, to give other the chance of great poetry too.
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Well, I appreciate your generosity very much.
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