dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Garden
Victoria at dVerse has invited us to write a poem about any form of the word Garden.
“Gardens are a form of autobiography” Sydney Eddison
To Bathe In The writing of our edenic idyll, a lush and varied eclogue, has been its own healing journey to connection, to something deeper that is more than the satisfaction of a garden of secrets and wonders, more a place to bathe in life-giving wholeness. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Filed under creativity, Free Verse, Gardening, life, mindfulness, passion, philosophy, poem, Quadrille, quote
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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” Socrates
Are you not in the least curious
even a tiny bit?
That there is another way instead
of this long fall into deep forgetfulness
to a prison not made of stone,
imprisoned, within our selves
where the memory of other lives
is eclipsed by the drama
of shame, of wanting, of striving,
over the simplicity of
bread, shirt, and roof,
wherein lies the escape.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under creativity, environment, Free Verse, Gardening, life, mindfulness, nature, permaculture, poem, quote, self-development
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“Otherness cannot be a form.” Nicholas of Cusa
The map of the imaginable
is found only in dreams,
vessels its mere dwelling
to strip away the chimera
and reach into the unknown,
leaving the caim of my own
clinging, soft assurance to
discover otherness in
crevice, corner, underside,
the small of the wild is
ever sanctuary to the fire
of creative love.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: the first line comes from the philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884 – 1962)
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Alt-Religion, bush walking, Country, creativity, Free Verse, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote, Spirituality
VJs Weekly Challenge – Wild Card
VJ has challenged us to respond to the words of the Dalai Lama “The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.” Dalai Lama
Image: The work of Catherine Nelson and part of an extensive series called Other Worlds, see more at http://www.catherinenelson.com
“There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.” Ken Wilbur
The telephone booth beckons,
my hearts knows its mantra,
kenosis arrives in the moment
but only if I let it be so,
for I have to assent
to take off my high ground,
become the anti-hero,
open myself to the
transpersonal real,
singing back to earth
its own love song as if it
were my very own.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: Kenosis (κενωσις) is a Greek word meaning to empty one’s self, used formally in relation to the theological and philosophical understanding of the incarnation.
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under community, Country, creativity, Free Verse, life, love, mindfulness, nature, philosophy, poem, quote, relationship
I find Asian cultures fascinating, and not least Japanese culture. There are a number of pop culture renderings of Bento, but it more closely means convenient, so a bento box lunch is merely a convenient lunch. The furishiki is a small cloth for wrapping the bento box in (these have found other uses in the west in recent years).
“Let things taste the way they are.” Alice Waters
Her movements were certain,
a well practiced art,
pre-prepared love in rice and duck,
she gathered all the pieces
as she gathered her thoughts
and filed them precisely
in slot after slot,
as yesterday, today, so tomorrow,
her love note
his lacquered bento box,
and as she wrapped it in the
womb of the furoshiki
and tied it well,
she knew that it was her love
alone that would hold it together.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under creativity, Free Verse, life, love, poem, quote
dVerse Poets – Meet Jackie Hulbert
Art Work: Jackie Hurlbert by permission, via dVerse Poets and Linda Lee Lyberg.
She, as many do,
was moving through the doors
of her life and not with ease
so much as a quiet confidence
that was easily torn at the edges
when things went wrong,
and, of course,
too quickly for it to be true
she would blame herself
often referring to a multitude
of lack by some
meaningless comparison;
she was puzzled at how others
would affirm her creative zest
and her beauty,
but when she looked in the mirror
she only saw and ordinary woman
with messy hair,
where others saw
a beautiful, wild garden
of promise.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under art, challenge, creativity, Free Verse, life, poem
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Bricks thirsty
the building dejected, lonely,
divorced from the life once given
in architectural matrimony
a fidelity now forsaken as
adultery claims newer, younger designs,
so, she tries
and puts on some makeup
over the tired foundation
offending some with her
bold and gaudy style,
while others tut-tut
complaining that she hasn’t
done it right,
too random,
too modern,
reckless,
uncouth,
some smile warm, welcome smiles
and greet her as an old friend
refreshed, lively, and
beautiful again.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: I think I might be alone in the world but I applaud Graffiti, sanctioned or otherwise, I find art anarchy refreshing. But there is a distinction between graffiti and tagging. Tagging is simply names, numbers and codes for those claiming a tag challenge on public property and it is not art, whereas Graffiti is art.
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under art, creativity, Free Verse, life, poem
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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.” John Ruskin
Ms Palette
Some people are very grey,
while some are plain beige,
that’s who they are,
others, unfortunately,
are determinedly black or white
and entirely predictable,
some are bohemian rainbows,
free spirits,
some,
like my girl,
colour my day.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under creativity, Free Verse, life, love, poem, quote, relationship, romance
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” Émile Zola
The inner dualities,
centuries old,
rage within,
threatening emptiness, nakedness,
sadness,
if I pick up my brush or my pen,
or maybe my spade,
my mind asks that striving question,
will it be profound?
Which is really a question of
will it matter?
Yet a more timid urge,
the one that seems less in the world,
at least, until the work is done,
is when the heart says,
speak from me.
There, at my very centre,
arises the profound,
my profound,
in all its authentic glory.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under art, creativity, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, Uncategorized
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“The only one youer than you is you” Dr. Seuss
That we’re different is plain to see,
just look in the mirror,
one species,
so many faces to put to it,
like snow flakes,
not one the same.
We’re all differently abled,
gifted in so many ways,
just needing to unlock,
what is uniquely ours.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under creativity, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote
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