At dVerse Frank is hosting Haibun with an invitation to write about heart.
Photo by Isabella Mariana: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-raising-his-hands-with-heart-illustration-1988698/
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” Blaise Pascal
My Heart Is True
My quartet, sometimes pumping major, sometimes minor chords, of deep, deep feeling, be they ecstatic or other, less so. To be moved is to know joy and pain, even simultaneously. To be lifted is to know the bounds of passions flavours. Moments like these I feel in my temples, my chest, my breath or lack of it for want of air.
My quartet, all four chambers, never suspended, never diminished, though often augmented with all kinds of bargained feelings of love, forgiveness, joy, pain, fear. It all wells and heaves in my body needing time to be discerned before any sense of consolation or desolation can be determined towards a course of action, if at all. I am uncertain as to who conducts who, but I am certain my heart is true.
My heart is beating like the wings of a love bird flying close to you Copyright 2023 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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Beautiful thoughts and words. Thanks for sharing, Paul.
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Awesome picture and lovely words
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Thank you so much Cheryl
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I am certain of that, my friend. I have never known it to be otherwise.
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Ah, peas in a pod (we might have been separated at birth).
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Truly, my friend.
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😉
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Ooh, I said “my friend” twice. Getting old and redundant!
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Never! 😉
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🙏🌹
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I love the conclusion of the prose… a true heart is what is always asked for (hopefully)
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Yes, hopefully, thank you Bjorn.
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Just lovely ❤
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Thank you very much indeed.
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Lovely!
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Many thanks Rupali
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I love the metaphor of the heart as a quartet!
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I originally wanted to work with four chambers, but it really moved well into the quartet theme so i went with it, thank you Liz.
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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A quartet. A nice image. I’ll mention it to my cardiologist next time I see him…
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I hope he’s a classic appreciator.
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I don’t know. He’s a fellow student of my daughter’s. He just branched out into cardiology, she chose infectology. I’m a rather new patient of his. I dumped my previous cardiologist… 😉
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😉 I hope you dumped him well? 😉
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👍🏻
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I love the idea of the quartet being conducted and the heart is true. Lovely.
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Powerful poem
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Many thanks
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Reblogged this on https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thank you very much xx
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The metaphor is beautiful, Paul! Thanks for sharing! xx Michael
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My pleasure indeed Michael 🙂
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