August 26, 2021 · 3:57 pm
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The Pursuit Of An Epiphany – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: some of the remains of one of the many pubs that served over 10,000 people at Kookynie at the peak of the western gold rush. Kookynie had a mayor, council, shops, a railway, schools, band, an annual parade etc. Now there are only a handful of locals, who seem to like it that way.

“Ruin is the road to transformation.” Elizabeth Gilbert

The Pursuit Of An Epiphany

There are disparate parts of me
that remain of eras past, memories
of halcyon yesterdays all avante
garde, brim bustle and push,
erecting obelisks across the 
parched expanse of my days to
celebrate the fiction of immortality
embodied in the fountain of youth,
until that day it all began to slowly,
imperceptibly, crumble to the ground,
leaving only a trace of something 
once great, dust to dust in the
pursuit of an epiphany.


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32 responses to “The Pursuit Of An Epiphany – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  2. jmankowsky
    August 26, 2021 at 4:21 pm

    Lovely metaphors…love the quote as well.
    Julie

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  3. newepicauthor
    August 26, 2021 at 4:41 pm

    I hope you get well soon.

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  4. datta
    August 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm

    I have become d I s t u r b e d!
    But I believe in Destiny!

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  5. rugby843
    August 26, 2021 at 5:24 pm

    Those places are so interesting. I assume the original residents of the lands where you live named everything. I love our areas in the west as well where indigenous tribes named all.

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  6. Liz Gauffreau
    August 26, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    Echoes of “Ozymandias” . . .

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  7. Patricia
    August 26, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    I was once told that life is good if you don’t weaken. I have found this to be true. I think you have, too.

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  10. BrittnyLee
    August 29, 2021 at 3:42 am

    Profound and loud. I could hear the string thundering voice of experience and wisdom . Beautiful piece 🙂

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  11. Mws R
    August 31, 2021 at 2:50 pm

    Sometimes a person has to fall before they know how to stand.

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  13. Charis Counselling
    January 4, 2022 at 1:25 am

    An amazing poem – somber though

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