“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” Jacques Cousteau
Savouring The water slowly, gently, washes over my feet, more of a splish than splash from the lazy tide departing the quiet of the inlet for the sea, its bubbles and froth blinking in the sun, then becoming one with the sands of time, eventually I wandered home, not washing, but rather, savouring the sticky, salty feeling, and the smell of the sea on my skin. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Lillian is hosting the Quadrille and her invitation is to write (44 words) about happiness or a form of the word.
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Happiness
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” Iris Murdoch
I So Choose The waves crashed in rolling the shore like worn carpet in displaced surrender, revealing troves of shiny detritus unrelated in my minds eye, yet in my perceiving I teased out the synchronicities which were there all along, waiting for my happiness to be chosen. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night, the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.” Rachel Carson
Sands Of Time What force is this runnel of scarred beauty, where earth meets water, transformed by the intimate violence of a caress which moves mountains of life beyond all tomorrows of recollection to eternities of an indescribable elsewhere that leaves me feeling uncertain of where to place my feet in a shifting world. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde
The sea of truth is rent as a
westerly whips across the sound,
so much is indistinct as waves crash
fiercely holding but for a moment
then folding into each other,
no latitude here,
only the mollusks are indifferent,
unashamed of their resistance
to this vast body of similitude
that shapes the destiny of granite
with ease and holds the sands
in no esteem, consuming tubs
traversing meaning, skating
the peaks alone,
and I stand on the groin
seeing everything and nothing
exhausting itself, spent in anger,
so much is indistinct.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.” Eberhard Arnold
The sun is just the sun
so far as the eyes are concerned
until the sun meets
horizon or cloud,
and every hue erupts,
bathing hearts with flutter,
even more so when the
sun meets your hair
offering highlights and
directing my gaze
to you.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table – there’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.” Garrison Keillor
When your skimpy two-piece became one,
I counted your thirty-three vertebrae
with my sensitive fingers,
so carefully I traced
from C-1 to L-5
and, holding my breath
I pressed on to S-4
where I felt my heart
increasingly spinning.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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“Never give up for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
At five the shore was long,
as long as it would ever be today
or any other day,
and I had not taken the time to
remember this nor to ponder
that it it might remain so,
that the tide might not come back
today or any other day,
that the sand should be divorced,
she the grieving widow
uncovered by her beloved
exposed and bereft,
her tears captive to the sun,
but the moon played her trick
and covered the shore once again,
I left with joy in my heart
knowing that all the tears were gathered.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under beach, environment, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote
Photo: Hardy Inlet, Blackwood River, three pelicans in the shallows.
“Many pelicans fish by swimming in cooperative groups …” National Geographic
Just a grey October day where
the river reflects its sky so well,
a flash of white dazzles on the
far eastern shoreline
a painter’s bold smudge,
the air murmurs but doesn’t move,
gulls and terns circle and pass,
suddenly the daub of paint moves
and catches my eye,
five birds take to the sky
thermal surfers wheeling and circling,
soon five more, and another,
till forty pelicans align in a
grace that belies their size
and somehow the world seems
to be a better place.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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“It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.” Thomas Carlyle
Have you ever stood and pondered a pebble
on riverbank or seashore,
to know that a conglomerate surrendered it so
by water and by wind,
that oneness can give an abundance
and nothing is alone or insignificant,
to think that such a small thing
can be a giant killer,
a game changer,
gravity mover,
disturber of peace,
a garden of delight,
pity the one who doesn’t ponder a pebble.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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When I have whelved all my thoughts to the
point that I dwell in anomia
I go to the edge to listen to the wind calling,
while the water caresses,
and I remember your laughter.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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