March 31, 2023 · 1:06 pm
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Somewhere In The Middle – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Linda is hosting Open Link Night where we choose a poem to post.

dVerse Poets – OLN

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“In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows ….” Henri Matisse

Somewhere In The Middle

Reality is nine tenths of perception,
and I wonder how 
many realities there might be,
everyone a winner,
no single substantive truth,
versions of versions,
choose your own ending,
after all,
it's an arcade world,
a fluid dystopia of newsprint.
Equally, surely, 
meta-narratives are repressive fantasy.
Somewhere in the middle
lies human connection,
the potential real.


Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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25 responses to “Somewhere In The Middle – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon”

  1. lifelessons
    March 31, 2023 at 1:13 pm

    We seem to have presented two sides of the coin today, Paul.

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  3. newepicauthor
    March 31, 2023 at 2:01 pm

    History decides what truth is.

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  6. boz bozeman
    March 31, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    You’d think reality wouldn’t be such a struggle!

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  8. Liz Gauffreau
    March 31, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    Keep our eyes on the middle!

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  9. lync56
    March 31, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    Sobering

    >

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  10. Sascha Darlington
    March 31, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    I will meet you in the middle, the only place for reality…

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  11. equinoxio21
    April 1, 2023 at 1:21 am

    Perceptions indeed. In all. Being slightly colour blind (Some greens and some browns) I know that my “reds” or my “blues” or my “yellows” I don’t see as others do. It may well be possible that nobody sees the same red… But we agree that there is a colour “red”… It is a convention. 😉
    Bon week-end mon ami.

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  12. Björn Rudberg (brudberg)
    April 2, 2023 at 1:47 pm

    we all have something in common — to be unreliable narrators of the world around us.

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