"We're not anti-police ... we're anti-police brutality." Al Sharpton The Art Of Bludgeoning We can't have peace, take an oath, take a badge, now go, be brave, bludgeon that man, woman, child, until their blood redeems the views of the marionette's twisted predations, laid bare on the altar of lies, such is the denial of protest. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, quote, Racism, Uncategorized
https://onewomansquest.org/2020/06/01/vjs-weekly-challenge-98- no-words/
"Racism is all over the world but justice is nowhere." Areena Nadeem I Have No Words Decades of days have passed whose shadows have lenghtened like a pall on a coffin in a dimly lit chapel awaiting a prayer of light to reveal the edifice collapsed, the facade of politeness exposed in every corner of a smug world, where power is bound in abstraction, whose currency is hatred, whose anthems divide, whose flags are merely shrouds of deadly propaganda laying waste to minds, what has happened to humanity? It is impossible to speak of it, I have no words. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Sarah at dVerse has invited us to write a poem about rain.
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honour or a poet who is a stranger among his people." Khalil Gibran Glimpses That lover of self, a lifeless reality where no flowers bloom, pissed on the holy, the book of justice his anger, the book of love his leer, a ruin of integrity disembled for all as naked futility, distorted fantasy of the Jordan, claims of Eden, but only darkness speaks his voice lit with glimpses of innocent light in the distance of love, O that justice would rain down. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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https://dversepoets.com/2020/05/28/openlinknight267/
Grace at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night, the night we choose a poem of our own to post.
“I Can’t Breathe” George Floyd
To Breathe The tissue of life is delicately thin, especially when the protectors grin, arraigned with a knee and pinned to the ground, he couldn't breathe; no judge, no jury, they refused his cry, the man needed air, we was guilty, without sin, they murdered George Floyd with a dirty white lie and since the moment he stopped, I have struggled to breathe. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
I struggle with this, I wept for this man, for us, for life!
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under death, Elegy, Free Verse, grief, life, poem, quote, Restorative Justice, Uncategorized
dVerse Poets – Meet The Bar – Final Couplet
Frank at dVerse has invited us to write a poem, but which must end with a rhyming couplet.
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“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust
The fetish of nostalgia reeks
like overripe banana in
an open bin on a hot day,
vanguard of decay in this
haunt of demons
waiting to persuade me,
to humiliate proud memories
that now enter the picture
distorted by time’s passing,
exposed hubris,
a repressive fiction
needing confessional diminution,
awaiting with shreds of contrition.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, history, life, poem, quote, Uncategorized
Photo: Ngaanyatjarrah, north-east of Giles weather station.
“All my life, following care along the dusty road, have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
The road sat quietly on the plain
accentuating the unhiddenness of distance,
an intimacy exposed for what it is,
while trees, as ever, swept the verge
and the moon and sun cared for our steps,
but never for our direction,
just as Alice found,
it mattered nothing,
except in the going.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Country, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote, Uncategorized
dVerse Poetics – Black History Month
Anmol at dVerse has invited us to write a poem focussing on Black History Month.
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“I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” James Baldwin
I saw the branches of yesterdays tree
where hemp fibres once held the
beauty of humanity as if it were
merely wrapping paper
to be discarded rather than loved,
strange how truth is pigmented
in the mind, yet colonises the heart,
so easily betraying the lies
we facade for the sake of niceties
while denying a generation.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, politics, prose, Uncategorized
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“A person sees in the world what they carry in their heart.” (adapted) Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The thought before the step,
seeing with the heart
while resting the mind,
standing, walking, sitting
with feelings that arise,
resisting pathologies,
those old avenues so familiar
that flow like winter rivers,
to burst that bubble and
dispel that echo,
to know the tender deep
intangible organic love
that awaits a birthing
as gift to the world,
in step.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
Filed under challenge, community, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote, self-development, Spirituality, Uncategorized
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“When I think about you, I touch my elf.” (Santa)
Chimneys are full of surprises
especially on the night before Christmas,
and when Santa finally arrived
I certainly jingled,
“Have you been a good boy?”
she asked with a twinkle,
“Yes” I carefully replied,
“Well, that’s about to change”
she said with a smile.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, Humour, poem, quote, Uncategorized
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