“…. true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.” Audrey Hepburn
Exquisite The recipe was not lost, simply one off, never to be repeated, just one pinch of shyness, a sprig of humour, some joy generously added, an abundance of love layered in all its flavours, with a dash of awareness and finished with a quiet confidence lightly held, such an exquisite being, to taste her is to taste the strength that holds everything together. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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VJs Weekly Challenge – Quotation
VJ invited us to write using part or all of the following quotation by Maria Popova: “Strive to be uncynical, to be a hope-giving force, to be a steward of substance.”
A Certain Substance He had an air about him, a certain substance that wove itself into his every movement, as a weaver makes a cloth, so he wove the fabric of his life in neat, yet colourful rows, with just enough peculiarity to stand out in a crowd for the right amount of notice while retaining dignity, a man of gravitas. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
VJs Weekly Challenge – Next Chapter
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion top one’s courage.” Anais Nin
To Be Continued The book began with a smile and leaned into a few words here and there around all the many moments that sparked with energy, and I thought a short bio might just cover it, but the spark lit a fire and the chapters ran on, so that by the fifth I thought the glow might dim a little, instead it continues with fervour in to a new chapter of many moments, framed in a world on the cusp of something that sparks with possibility, but then, I love a good mystery. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“I know the removal of the Colston statue will divide opinion, as the statue itself has done for many years. However it’s important to listen to those who found the statue an affront to humanity.” Marvin Rees (Mayor of Bristol)
Rising The statues of subjugation crash to the ground of the past, we're loving a new now, the beginning of future dreams, free-ranged, unwrapped, letting go Aquarius' aged darkness, rising to unison of heart, pace the whispers of worm tongues who would hold oppression lightly, but whose account is well due. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: I have used pace in preposition form, expressing disagreement with worm tongues with those who support enslavement of any kind.
VJs Weekly Challenge – Decisions
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” Maimonides
To Dare That next step, what might it mean, an ontological rift or that the shadows have shifted? How ironic, of course they're shifting anyway, why the hesitation? The tension of change is all around you, overtaking you, now is the time, to dare to move. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
VJs Weekly Challenge – Transported
Photo: hindustantimes.com
“The only truth is music.” Jack Kerouac
As the world wrapped itself
too tightly for my liking,
I took refuge in a language
of emotion that swept my skin
with such feeling I entered
new realms where my heart
was painted with words of
precipice and left me faint,
inwardly I wept with joy,
transported to the
seventh heaven on waves
of ecstasy.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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VJs Weekly Challenge – Contribution
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“‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
Many have tried to straighten the path of love,
to paint it smooth and make it certain,
but where is love without pain
or the threshold of uncertainty
that it might stir the heart
and rack one’s mind in sweet turmoil?
How could one surrender if there was
nothing to surrender for?
Where is triumph without a fall?
What dullness!
Not me. I wound a path
and risked the fall,
that was my contribution.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
VJs Weekly Challenge – Morning
Photo: Looking out from the lake to South Bunbury and the morning rise.
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.” Maya Angelou
Morning arrived,
I’m not sure how,
it evolved as an interruption
of which I was ambivalent,
I was captive to a dream,
yet I wanted to rise to the day,
but, I wanted to sleep
and I wanted this dream
through which I could see myself,
could see the world where I
understood that I did not understand.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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VJs Weekly challenge – Mission
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“They’re full of soaring superlatives like “perfect” and “seamless” and “exceptional.” They attempt to sum up in one buzz-word laden sentence, the whole point of life, the universe and everything …. and they’re completely and utterly worthless, like every mission statement ….” Pete Hitzeman
Let’s paint it mission brown,
it covers everything
and it means nothing
like every mission statement,
that may have begun
with some meaning
have become hollow gestures
to an alien experience we
claim to be our very own,
still,
if we paint it
who would know that
this husk has no heart.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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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
Paul, pvcann.com
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Namaste beautiful minds.
❧ A Little Heart With Extraordinary Passion
Stories without Borders
little bits of words swirling
by B Sudharsan
Poetry and More
Welcome to Life-Changing Motivation
Natural face Cream
A Journey Through The Words
Writings on my Life and Muses
NOTHING TURNS INTO EVERYTHING
"A personal blogging platform to publish own literary works and learning things to the lovely people around the world"
Página web basada en el arte conceptual, poesía, noticias destacadas, análisis de múltiples temas sociales, económicos y políticos.
Indian Diversity, Women Writings, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Yoga , Current Topics and Others
