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“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps it was the wine
or the small of your back
we left the terrace behind,
your eyes drank my soul
while we waltzed in the shed
our laughter turning to sigh
and sooner, not later,
the long summer grass
caressed our shuddering whole.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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“If we are to achieve a richer culture, we must weave one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.” Margaret Meade
They were real
devoted,
oblivious and in love,
they knew they were broken,
only others imprisoned them
in shackles of judgement
devised in their own
shallow minds and
jealous of their freedom
to simply be
more human than they.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, love, poem, Quadrille, relationship
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“Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.” Suzy Kassem
He stood alone in their frenzied midst
till their lungs were spent, exhausted,
and when they finally turned to him
in murmured curiosity
he quietly gave voice to their
demons and shadows and doubts
and, in their place, he made
profound their wild hope.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
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“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” Thich Nhat Hahn
To contemplate breathing
now there’s a thing,
a rhythm of
an inward and outward breath,
so simple really, and yet,
where is the juncture
the beginning or end,
though differently constituted
there are no parts
neither this or that,
just one continuous
seamless movement.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under life, meditation, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote, Spirituality
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Freckle
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He’d dated,
of course he had,
and there’d been plenty of fun,
but he was smitten with Red
who was veiled in fire and
painted with freckled star-scapes,
whose hororscope said
confetti could shower you today,
a serious young woman
whose eyes were smiling.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, love, poem, Quadrille, relationship, romance
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“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government …” Thomas Jefferson
Of privateers, corsairs, and buccaneers,
tales of derring-do,
no justice here,
self-serving thievery
a life of plunder and pillage
under the skull and thigh bones,
their fate by the winds
was wealth,
or, execution,
nowadays a fine
with spent conviction,
that’s how democracy goes.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, politics, Quadrille
Language – VJs Weekly Challenge
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The folded resistance of your arms
speaks a volume loud enough for
my eyes to hear,
a clear signal of
your fullness,
there is no room for
my confection of words that
in yesterday’s moods
were understood,
floating so lightly
now leaden,
grasping,
sinking.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under challenge, dance, Free Verse, life, poem, Quadrille, relationship
Photo: Elachbutting Rock, one of Western Australia’s waved rocks, and typically showing the effect of water and air on the minerals in the rock. The rocks are crucial to flora and fauna, filtering and directing, and holding water. The indigenous relied on them as a source of water, and most of the granite and sandstone outcrops form part of the extensive Song Lines.
In a dry wilderness land
where wind whips sand
and helios mercilessly
desiccates all life,
you form and poise
almost reaching that peak,
yet never crashing to foam
holding the space as
serpentine life-giver
oasis of hope
sentinel of Eden
in this dry ocean.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Fretboard of Poetry
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The wall,
amalgam of clay and fire
stands boldly,
but time smiles benignly
knowing full well that it must
eventually give way
slowly,
frittering and fretting
as washed by life,
revealing
a softness so strong
it has no need of that
hardened,
calloused skin.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: Fret refers to a number of things – worry, to be consumed, and to be worn down. It was an old masons term for the deterioration of bricks.
Paul, pvcann.com
dVerse Poets – Here There Be Dragon Poems – Quadrille
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“Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the earth will shake.” Winston Churchill (speaking about China)
Elements of life
we simply forget
or want to,
the water under
an abridged life,
coded tapestry of
joy and disappointment,
yet one wisp of song and
a flood of vignettes
awakening,
sometimes we must
poke the sleeping dragon
and breathe that fire again.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, Quadrille, quote
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