Photo: north of Laverton.
“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.” Paul Tillich
I craved the silence
until it crashed hard against me,
leaving me breathless for more,
wanting to run from the precipice
of that dance of paradox,
wanting not wanting,
having, resisting,
taking a leap,
being caught up by those
non-existent arms,
cradled against the lonely,
held within the chaos,
safe in my uncertainty.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, nature, poem, psychology, quote
Photo: Flat Rock, along the Blackwood River.
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” Joseph Campbell
The fruit of adolescence recaptured
that old reckless abandon,
a fearless letting go returned
as I came across the first stone,
I was moved, overcome, and I cast
myself upon the sweet-smelling earth,
kicking off my shoes in a Moses moment,
daring to touch this sacred ground
the very core of me.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, nature, Philosophy/Theology, poem, quote
Photo: at the back of Tamma Park, Merredin. Sun shining through the rain clouds.
“The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!” Mehemet Murat Ildan
I saw her lips move
but no sound evolved
her eyes stone cold
in her heavy void,
that inner world
of the paper house
waiting to be torched
in a celebration of survival,
a rising beyond the
everyday ordeals,
nightmares,
but a lock is always an invitation,
so I ventured to speak a simple hope,
that we might just find a summer
in the midst of our winter.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, poem, quote
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
Grace at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night, the night we contribute a poem without a prompt.
Photo: Lake Ballard, near Menzies
“I dwell in possibility.” Emily Dickinson
In the midst of hostility
where the dry arid ground
desired to earth my bones
and break my roots,
there I conquered my fear,
that petty thief,
taking shelter in myself,
living into the
trace of thoughts embodied
in my ordeal of solitude,
paying attention to the
emerging, shimmering, horizon,
beckoning,
smiling.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote
dVerse Poets – Poetics – To Be A Flower
Linda at dVerse has invited us to write a poem about ourselves as a flower, what flower we do we most identify with? I have chosen a Spider Orchid.
Photo: One of the several types of Spider Orchid found in Western Australia, Leda Reserve, 2018.
“The orchids grow in the woods and they let out their fragrance even if there is no one around to appreciate it.” Confucius
Parched,
waiting for the sky to cry
and relieve my desiccated bones,
my rice paper skin,
a tenuous life in
an abundance of aridity,
the land of implausible possibility
where nature threatens its own
fragile existence so that
it won’t be disappointed
should its seed never smile
and celebrate a dawn,
yet here I am,
today, perhaps tomorrow,
a glorious struggle,
full of my colour
in a shred of life.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Country, environment, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote
VJs Weekly Challenge – Whisper
Photo: pixabay.com
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” G.K. Chesterton
Down he went for there was a road
and roads must be wandered
no matter the cost,
because roads whisper
so many things of love and life,
not least the mystery of other,
the inexplicable unnamed love,
that gaze of sun and moon,
and to contend with every
bend and slope and not
be curbed in any way,
just to listen in himself,
to embody the resonance of
every breath the road
would give in wisdom.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
Photo: Lemon Scented Gum, St. Mark’s Park, Bunbury
“How can we know ourselves by ourselves? Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realise ourselves where self-revelation is possible ….” James Hillman
Beyond the face of it
time is best immersive,
taken slowly,
small steps, never strides,
a very small journey that is quite long
from the outer to the centre,
a lifetime more or less,
and the closer one draws
to that precious place
is to feel the layers peeling off
with a new vulnerability
open to the world
as the mask thins and
crumbles to the ground.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, nature, philosophy, poem, psychology, quote, self-development
dVerse Poetry – Prosery – The Rock Cries Out
Frank at dVerse has invited us to take the line “The rock cries out to us today, You may stand upon me, but do not hide your face.” and use in for a prose piece of 144 words.
Photo: granite outcrop at Billyacatting with a Sheoak making good with a crevice.
“The rock cries out to us today, You may stand upon me, but do not hide your face.” Maya Angelou
We behaved as tourists, observing, consuming, enjoying, but never once holding a sense of belonging or offering something resembling connection even though that space so clearly cried out for it. Now that the tide is turning and ancient forms are slowly taking their leave, we face a new, daunting prospect. Too late to redress the past of our blithe and callow turning away. Indeed, we are no longer at our leisure, no longer possessed of our sure identity, positing who we are and what we might do as if there were no words of opposition or external accountabilities. Gone are our hermetically sealed worlds. We stand at the threshold forced to face ourselves, and even the rock cries out to us today, You may stand upon me, but do not hide your face. Even in the face of death, nature still reconciles us.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Country, environment, life, mindfulness, nature, prose, quote
Photo: looking south-west from Kata Tjuta NT
“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.” Vine Deloria Jnr.
Where the shadows shift slowly
and the wind whispers a language
of its own unknown to human ears,
and dust takes on a life of meaning
as it stirs and lifts,
the residue of centuries
residing in all the corners,
while in the quiet
a still small voice,
the one called love,
waiting to be heard.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Alt-Religion, bush walking, Country, Free Verse, love, meditation, poem, quote, Spirituality
dVErse Poets – Poetics – New Year/New World
Mish at dVerse has invited us to imagine a world that is new ….
Photo: the upper reaches of the Hardy Inlet, where Blackwood River enters on the left, and the Scott River enters directly opposite. Taken from Flat Rock, an idyllic and peaceful ‘world.’
“We can only know what we can truly imagine. finally what we see comes from ourselves.” Marge Piercy
I closed my eyes to take in the world,
to feel the ancient wisdom of the trees,
the river running by, softly speaking a
quiet truth beneath its tempest,
and always the still centre of the breeze,
drawing me intimately closer,
truths I hold within and cherish.
a compass of heart for many roads
of living through the tempests of life,
and as I open my eyes again,
the peace surpassed lingers deep
nourishing my soul.
and once again I know the oft
forgotten truth that the
vey utopia I desire
rests within and is
birthed by love.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann,com
Filed under bush walking, Country, dreams, Free Verse, life, love, philosophy, poem, quote
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