“Consumerism is eating the future.” Andy Coghlan
The Cost The serpent of eden slithered into the malls of life whispering songs of inadequacy, songs of desire, and we all sang those ego spirituals as earnest acolytes of self-deception, seeking salvation in virginal blister packs promising thirty seconds of youthful orgasm at the cost of barren, sterile soil and a pile of dead leaves, leaving us with a fetish for auto asphyxiation in a heavenly glaze. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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At dVerse Grace is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to consider the body, our body, in writing.
dVerse Poets – Meeting The Bar – The Body And Poetry
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.” Terry Tempest
Flesh Of My flesh The wound I carry is not just for me, I feel its pain when I feel the earth speaking in my flesh, when I hear the ocean's voice as my voice, as a child crying, or the wind, unconsoled, recoiling at the violence of the rend that bleeds from my side, but I just cannot unwind the tourniquet of my addiction and once again, I float to my heavens as the wound remains in my anaesthesia of indulgence. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture – that is immortality enough for me.” Edward Abbey
Thoughts On A Decomposition Still, as dead today, hide glistening in the sun, unmoved by summer's straight glare, no more to roam this land now laid on this roadside bier for all to mourn tomorrow, as the days are counted and flesh and blood decompose into the hungered soil where nothing is ever lost, even immortalised, in the great giving back. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“The earth is what we all have in common.” Wendell Berry
The question for me, is what am I ignoring or resisting in regard to how my lifestyle impacts the environment?
Integrity O, the triumph of cotton shopping bags and earth related washing liquids, the success of one hour for earth hour, or catching the train just for once, but yesterday was forty litres of unleaded, and how many kilojoules of light for that evening soiree of your gathered moments, the petrochemicals that made your shoes or paint for your bedroom decor or the three thousand kilometres of jet fuel for those delicious mangoes or tomatoes from even further away. What now your ecology, your environmental credentials, you defender of the earth? ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Hell is truth seen too late.” Thomas Hobbes
The We Of We I want to tell you that I love the echidna and the kangaroo, I love them for them and not for their objective value or their two dimensional post card symbolism, I and they are the we of we, of life and blood, of oxygen and spirit, if it were not so I would not be here writing this paean. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Dreaming Once, when I was a child, I saw outside my window a world unbroken as if it would go on forever and ever, that Wendy and I would defeat Hook and make Neverland into ever land for good where nothing would break or be endangered and everything was safe to be itself. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature.” Antoni Gaudi
What of Imagination? Form and function, I begrudge its pragmatic, aluminium deep beauty in set squares of predictability, all bold sheen and shine, face set firmly against attrition, leaving me wondering, what of imagination that ground of soul's delight, that sets all birds free in flight? ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Without stories, the land turns to real estate.” Mark Abley
Below The Culture Line When time was local the land had a story rich in the beautiful greys of paradox, carefully nurtured in mutual surrender, we touched under the pulsing canopy. Rich in the beautiful greys of paradox we slipped below the culture line, we touched under the pulsing canopy, a language unspoken so openly felt. We slipped below the culture line, searching ourselves for beginnings, a language unspoken so openly felt as to be present in each other. Searching ourselves for beginnings, carefully nurtured in mutual surrender as to be present in each other, when time was local the land had a story. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: The concept of time shifted in the mid 1800s to a broader sense of time as universal, prior to that time was local.
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VJs Weekly Challenge – What A sight
“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” Lin Yutang
Off The Rails What a sight this happenchance, no more the corporate sea of smoke and steam or voices echoing through this once vale of life in this distant place of hardships now erased as nature grips the demons of steel by the throat, all the while laughing at the thought of progress in a place so fragile where life so quickly goes off the rails. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Linda at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night where ewe are invited to post a poem of choice. dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.” Suzy Kassem
Shouting Underwater Those babble mouths, always a crooked apologia for crack cocaine capitalism's endemic asset stripping dealers who're always powdering their own noses, yet always the stench of decay seeps through everywhere, gaslighting the streets, curbing panaceas left, right and centre, and I feel as if I'm on fire and shouting underwater. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Filed under Economics, environment, Free Verse, injustice, life, philosophy, poem, politics, quote
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this app has always been difficult to navigate for me
Sachin Singh's Institute for Power and Prosperity
Myworldview
Ink down the rhymes of your heart
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Cancer, Mental Health, Women, Nurse
READ. Ready Everyone And Drown
In Solidarity - Together we Stand - Seperated we fall - Aluta Continua "iMbokodo"
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My little way of getting my stories out there!
