At dVerse De is hosting Quadrille with an invitation to use some form of the word Go!
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Going, Going, Gone Poeming
“Without reflection we go blindly on our way ….” Margaret J. Wheatley
To Go To be or to go, do I need to go, do I want to go anywhere at all, the mountains in the distance called me to their high places, but I preferred to go to the valleys of my heart and dwell in presence. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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At dVerse Lillian is hosting Open Link Night. dVerse Poets – OLN
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
My Quiet Treasury I sat inside my quiet treasury of peaceful self amidst a field of reliquaries sculpted from dreams, with the eyes of the hidden ones watching closely, sentinels of the night in communities of acceptance. Amidst a field of reliquaries sculpted from dreams, along narrow stone paths of adventure unknown, sentinels of the night in communities of acceptance who silently speak in defence of all that is valued. Along narrow stone paths of adventure unknown I plumbed the forest's deep guilty pleasures who silently speak in defence of all that is valued, and offered as generous joy overflowing. I plumbed the forest's deep guilty pleasures with the eyes of the hidden ones watching closely, and offered as generous joy overflowing, I sat inside my quiet treasury of peaceful self. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” John Steinbeck
She Went Deep She went deep, so deep that she opened the door of summer's heat to winter's cool in a flash of such interior calm that time slowed down a pulse of almost nil and a half where the externals were clear for the first time and she slipped away inside, distilling everything to an unsurpassable peace of body held as she withdrew the world from her heart under a canopy of frost so cool, the heat of life could not seduce and melt her. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.” Rumi
The Whole Circus I like that my dystopian corners are quieter, and calm still weaves through the convoluted clutter of the greek tragedies of my life that disturb the meadows of my mind, as wind excoriates dry grass in late summer of the distended days of fiction on fire with lacerated confusion, so I simply shut the door and sat without expectation, letting the whole circus pass me by. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness comes all the many particulars.” Heraclitus
Present I sat in paradox and watched my consolations wash through me as water runs through fingers in a nothingness of interiority, a mystical, infused experience that left me lighter and present to myself in the lee of my desire that once dark cloud now dispersed. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Breathe and let be.” Jon Cabat-Zinn
Of Threads The point at which the moment disappeared is lost to me, all that lingers is the feeling of threads slipping, loosing, releasing me into a floating drift in a space between where I stretched out across the sky so lightly that the stars passed through me as intangible procession, and as the last thread unwound I found myself beyond myself, I found myself true. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.” Suzanne Finnamore
The mist kissed the water tenderly
and held me prisoner in the moment
that must never be squandered,
my breathing as fragile as the air,
waiting for an ending that will not come,
pulled into the juncture of realms,
lost in worlds where no thief resides
save that of my own inattention,
but I turn from that page,
even from the tempting words,
here I want for nothing.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, meditation, mindfulness, poem, quote, Spirituality
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Solitude
Bjorn at dVerse is hosting poetics and has invited us to write about solitude while trying to avoid using the word itself.
Photo: Somewhere between Merredin and Menzies. The bush is my best solitude.
“The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.”
Pico Iyer
I gather myself in this place
where the quiet examines me,
knowing that I yearn for it
as a lover yearns for completion,
even so, I avert myself at times
from the uncomfortable rawness of
the self intimacy of such knowing,
preferring to skirt the edges
below the mask so worn,
and yet, there are moments,
fleeting, like the pause of a breath,
within which an elusive thought
awakens my soul.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under bush walking, Country, Free Verse, life, meditation, mindfulness, nature, poem, quote, Spirituality
VJs Weekly Challenge – Subtraction
Photo: beliefnet.com
“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
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
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When I was young my dad would always say, "Crystal, you can choose your attitude." One day I chose to believe him.
Think about it
Welkom op de blog van Discobar Bizar. Druk gerust wat op de andere knoppen ook, of lees het aangrijpende verhaal van Harry nu je hier bent. Welcome to the Discobar Bizar blog, feel free to push some of the other buttons, or to read the gripping story of Harry whilst you are here!
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