VJs Weekly Challenge – Transported
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“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
Filed under challenge, dreams, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote
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
Filed under challenge, Free Verse, life, philosophy, poem, quote, Work
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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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“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” Thomas Moore
They washed my fetid journey sores with
words of love and such intimate and warm
soothing smiles on their hands, that
to be held in that space without judgement was
so powerful, even the word friends is inadequate.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under challenge, community, Five Lines, Free Verse, life, love, poem, quote
VJs Weekly Challenge – Product Placement
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“Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it …. it’s what it is.” Daniel Craig
So carefully placed as to catch your ego,
normalising, vindicating, validating,
for the lost and lonely
who need a sign
from the prophets of
inspired mammon
in red and white,
or sleek carbon black,
it makes a difference to
those starving for identity
who, in the end, become
the product placed.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under challenge, Free Verse, life, poem, quote
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“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.” Carl Jung
His inner demons held him in fear and mistrust,
but he dressed them as acceptable monsters
all hidden in the light, but they made their own
spectacular way to the surface of his unaware life
becoming his cruel and real destiny.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under challenge, Five Lines, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, psychology, quote
Photo: found at wikimedia.com – Nowitna River
“Life is like a river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.” Emma Smith
When rivers change
as rivers do
unstraightened into bends,
sweeping earth from
side to side and back again,
they subvert and challenge
every shibboleth and quasi-truth
embedded in the byzantine routines
of our quotidian humanness,
which until that moment
remained unnoticed, hidden,
in the accepted drudge of
our self-created lives as
if this were the only way to live,
and for evermore.
Not so, shout the rivers,
today your habit is interrupted,
you’ll need to go by another route.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
VJs Weekly Challenge – Subtraction
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“God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.” Meister Eckhart
How many valleys and ravines have been
that perfect sense of standing on the edge
seeking subtraction by addition,
rather than simply surrendering
the me of me for the real me,
unravelling the complexity
of my false true self,
offering substitutes two sizes down,
placating the demons of acceptance,
rummaging the garbage of life
for hollow platitudes,
a reductio ad absurdum
that returns me unfulfilled
to that place again
of self emptying towards
onement.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
Filed under challenge, community, Free Verse, life, meditation, mindfulness, poem, quote, Spirituality
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An arhat is one who has gained insight into the true nature of existence and has achieved nirvana. We are a group of people towards the same goal!!
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