Category Archives: passion

March 24, 2023 · 4:34 pm

Love Keep – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem using word play. There is a wonderful trove of detail that Bjorn has provided so please follow the link below for more info.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Word Play

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.” Marcel Proust

Love Keep

If you were a boat,
a magnificent vessel of passion
it would be all hands on,
but as it is we live in a 
stony eyrie,
a love keep so strong,
few can enter or escape,
and, truth be told,
I wouldn't want it
any other way.
We are our own 
passionate prison
and we are our own 
love key.


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March 4, 2023 · 12:35 pm

In Vain – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” Ambrose Bierce 

In Vain

I wanted to tell the world,
to shout
that I so disagreed,
but I could not find adequate words,
instead, I plucked at what I had
and forced them into lines
like bullets on a bandolier
awaiting a riddled body of consequences,
in vain I fumed,
my excited bluster
jamming in the overheated barrel
of my well intentioned cause celebre,
a squib of argument,
wilted,
therefore, I refrain.


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March 2, 2023 · 3:06 pm

In Her Quiet Way – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

“Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions.” Sylvia Matthews Burwell

In Her Quiet Way

Things are not always evident on face value,
never judge a book by its cover they say,
she was no different in her quite way,
some would say she merely had a walk on part,
that her life was lived in a deep pocket,
but that would be an assumption,
her name alone held up walls,
even the sky, 
and, like Moses 
she parted water for a generation
in need of escape,
while her words pushed up floors
as she intoned the reality around her,
naming the evils so closely held
by those who lauded themselves
and ruled her world.



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February 22, 2023 · 2:01 pm

Plum Sugar – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Kim is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about kissing.

dVerse Poets – Poetics – Prelude to a Kiss

Photo: found on pinterst.com

“Kiss me and you will see how important I am.” Sylvia Plath

Plum Sugar

When the plum is ripe
I don't cut it nicely,
I plunge straight in
savouring each piece of
soft, deep, red flesh
so sweet upon my hungry lips,
until, finally the centre is 
sundered, caressed, 
its juice surrendered, 
devoured, for all its worth,
and I ache for more,
an always kiss,
never ending.


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February 15, 2023 · 3:16 pm

Here With You – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a love poem.

dVerse Poets – Poetics – This Valentine’s Day, come and state it plainly.

Photo: Jonathan Borba at pexels.com

“Love is the poetry of the senses.” Honore de Balzac

Here With You

Ah -
Calypso
simply throw away the key
and hold me prisoner
here with you,
closer,
closer still,
so I can feel your beat and
taste your beguile,
then let us spend ourselves
in that eternal rhythm of
endings and beginnings,
ecstasy's language,
beyond words,
the gorge of our passion
pouring out.


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February 14, 2023 · 1:30 pm

I Don’t Want to Think of You – prose by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Merril is hosting Prosery (144 words) with an invitation to write a prose piece which must include the line “This Year’s a different thing, I’ll not think of you.” from ‘I So Liked Spring’ by Charlotte Mew.

dVerse Poets – Prosery – Last Year, Lost Love

Image by Tess from Pixabay 

“He wanted her and didn’t care who knew it.” Douglas Adams

I Don’t Want to Think of You

This year’s a different thing, I’ll not think of you. I’ll not think of you as I miss you in the mornings, or at the close of day. I’ll not think of you as I sit and sip as we always do. I’ll not think of you as I miss our long, deep conversations. I’ll not think of you as I fall into bed with you every night. I’ll not think of you as I remember the sensations in my skin, how we communicate without words. I’ll not think of you as I sit with my long ache of desire for you.

I can’t think of you, I’m possessed by the very feel of you. Your presence is electric, around me the air crackles. I don’t want to think of you, I want to hold you, caress you, kiss you, and be overflowed with you.

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February 8, 2023 · 3:38 pm

Everything – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Ingrid is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write about Gift – for more detail follow the link below.

dVerse Poets – Poetics – Hidden Gifts

Photo: State Forrest at Kirup in early spring 2022. Jarrah trees reaching for the sky.

“If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world” Dalai Lama

Everything

It turned up one day
completely out of the blue it would seem,
though not in the post,
no envelope or stamp,
there wasn't any wrapping,
nothing to denote its significance,
but there it was 
an indescribable feeling,
a sense of at-onement with all things,
extinguishing either-or relays,
an end to duality,
everything as pure gift.


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January 23, 2023 · 3:10 pm

The Eyes Have It – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: found on pinterest.com

“I’m convinced we all are voyeurs.” David Lynch 


The Eyes Have It 

The eyes see
but the heart and mind battle interpretations,
setting agendas
making perceptions;
on any one day something, anything
might repeat never to be received the same,
always a turmoil of filters and contexts,
what once might be sublime
at a turn in time might just be ordinary,
after all, objectified life is still subjective
like when a glimpse of intimate longing occurs -
is it so simple and mundane, innocent,
a nothing
an invitation to memory,
perhaps a reminder (to buy some roses)?
The eye sees,
the mind remembers,
the heart plays its hand as it will.


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January 22, 2023 · 3:11 pm

I Have Those Days – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: ‘Emotions in my hand’ by alex1972 at portraitphotos.org

“There is nothing to be known about anything except an in initially large, and forever expandable, web of relations to other things.” Richard Rorty

I Have Those Days

Like a wet mirage shimmering
the day caught my attention 
and drew me towards it,
exciting me and terrifying me
all in the same swirling second,
paralysing my attempts to move,
until at last the day passed and,
with a sigh, released me from
all the emotions I had dreamed
and desired to hold in my hands,
for one moment I had glimpsed an
evolution of reality where more
could be breathed and felt.



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January 21, 2023 · 1:57 pm

Sparks – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: Amit Talwar at pexels.com

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.” Haruki Murakami

Sparks

Rambunctious, fugitive thoughts rolled in
seeking refuge and
took roost in the emptiness of my mind,
a mischief afoot,
but what can be done?
The door was open,
nothing was going on,
how could I refuse?
I can feel them fluttering about,
their eloquence so light in
expressive songs of radiance,
a dispersion of rude exactitude,
an abundance of inarticulate cool,
sparks to light my wondered wandering.


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