“By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.” Roger Ascham
This Trick This trick, which is so startling, a curiosity without answers, my greatest reason for hope, the ever developing question, a gift of discovery to share, to sit and be unfathomed in unrestrained meanders free of encumbered expectations, a life unfastened, ready to be explored as a new future. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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At dVerse Mish is hosting Open Link Night – posting our own choice.
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
“Real awakening comes with an inherent sense of integrity.” Adyashanti
Something Something came out of me largely dark, the success of a poultice of intentions, avoiding, of course, any hemlock or such, an ending far too premature for the journey. The success of a poultice of intentions and is restricted only by somatic fears, an ending far too premature for the journey should fear be allowed to take centre stage. And is restricted only by somatic fears where the body lays and lies so innocently should fear be allowed to take centre stage, would my centre hold in glorious duality? Where the body lays and lies so innocently, avoiding, of course, any hemlock or such, would my centre hold in glorious duality, something came out of me darkly large. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
“Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone.” Lord Byron
For One Brief Glimpse The ambered silence of sun's departure a most glorious death the colour of woven meditation rising from the russet humus of solitude's joyful farewell, life's tributary offering pause for breath along the plane of letting-go the bubble and babble of fakery, prostituting the real for one brief glimpse of an unmemed self. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of things.” Henry Miller (Probably riffing on Marcel Proust’s comment)
Nature Reflecting Nature took a photograph and held it steady for me to see how water is contemplative, reflecting what it sees in its moments of undistracted, centred, stillness, embracing the beauty of all its surrounds, holding the sacred space of song and winter's leafy bounty, that I might rejoice in the conversation we subsequently engaged with deep, silent passion. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature ….” Rachel Carson
Sitting With Nature To sit is to still, to see, to be settled in connection with all that is present, feeling the space before you as you reach out and touch with all your senses wide open. To sit is to still, to see, to be accepted in this moment by all that desires to be present to to you in your quiet acceptance of the generosity of this shared space To sit is to still, to see, to become part of all that is, and return to your centre, slowing down and listening in to the rhythms of life, that you might know yourself for the first time. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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“Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.” Lao Tzu
Dispelled Cog toothed maniacal, steel eyed gangle trap, biting the tender throat of my hours, viral spreading, life sapping, dull billboards, those hypertense sucking creepers of wounded hearts, in thrice silence dispelled meekly by the outward breath so detached in the soul's crystal laughter drifting beyond the cries of the minute keeper to a stillness beyond cogito to tears of joy raining on the inside. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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“Solitude is a fount of healing ….” Carl Jung
When Have We? How does one receive silence in its absence, when we have forgotten what it is like to fold into our deepest self and touch something that opens us to everything there is and, without holding, hold the cosmos, our heart of hearts, overcome with feeling to the point of not speaking words of inadequate meaning that fall like fruit premature, pretty, but o so sour to the ear who knows. When have we been so possessed of that silence beyond silence? Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights reserved ®
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At dVerse Frank is hosting the Haibun (prose + haiku) with an invitation to write about the present moment.
dVerse Poets – Haibun – The Present Moment
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. But, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.” Lao Tzu
The Present Moment If I try to, I cannot reach back into all my yesterdays and reclaim them. And, even if I could, all that I would achieve is a reconstruction of days as perfect past moments. So I cannot reach back and hold any moment as it was. Besides I don't want to, the past is the past and best left as formative memory for better or worse. The future eludes me in smoke and mirrors, the pathway is unclear, no plan is foolproof. Besides, if I could see even just a little ahead I would be adjusting my approach towards the perfect experience. The most abiding feeling I have is of the fleeting present moment. That moment, the blinking of an eye, the moment between the inward and outward breath, which passes so quickly. These moments come and go and I have learned to treasure them before they slip into yesterday. But, to be in the present moment, I have to be present.
under the branches my inward and outward breath present moment held. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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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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Poetry and fiction by a physicist from the dark side
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