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Contemplative Action – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“A person sees in the world what they carry in their heart.” (adapted) Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Contemplative Action
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.
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She Said – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“When I think about you, I touch my elf.” (Santa)
She Said
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
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The Devil Has A Clipboard – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“The corruption of every government begins nearly always with that of principles.” Charles de Montesquieu
The Devil Has A Clipboard
The devil has a clipboard,
innocuous,
amorphous,
beady-eyed,
keeping score.
The devil has regulations,
no longer shy,
brazen,
not hiding in the detail
but living out in derision
and smug bastardry,
feeding on discomfort,
worse,
enjoying the powerlessness
of the confusion of
disavowed expectations
and the endless minutiae of
plausible impossibility
carefully tucked inside
shifting goalposts,
ever making promises and
snatching the joy away
just as the sweet and tender
seek to reach and trust.
The devil has a laptop,
keeping track,
seeking entrapment,
preying along the fault-lines
of desire and hope.
The devil has a home
inside your ballot box.
The Devil means well.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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It dies Before It Is Born – poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
VJs Weekly Challenge – Satisfying
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“There will never be complete satisfaction in this life, satisfaction is an illusion …” Amit Kalantri
It Dies Before it is born
What might we agree that is truly satisfying?
this definition of perpetual waiting
for the next moment or event in time,
what is satisfying is only in the moment
here now, gone tomorrow,
and, when the moment comes,
it dies before it is born,
and yet we go on seeking,
sometimes missing life
in hot pursuit of this
elusive experience.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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As Love Awakens – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
“The henna on her hand, smells of his love.” Lonely Bear
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As Love Awakens
To waken
where she’s always wakened,
just once more, before
her beloved enfolds her in his world,
the smells and sensation of this
moment will last long into memory,
the henna carrying more than its sum,
a cipher for waiting and longing
and pointing to a tear
that rends the heart, just as
it promises adventure,
soon the paste will dry,
it will fade and blur,
but not her love, her love
decorates her heart,
her love will shine
as she awakens.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Helpless – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts for ever.” Mineko Iwasaki
Helpless
And you,
will you too take what is not yours
and steal away that which was mine,
and only mine to give,
rendering my giving impotent
and my rights void,
to assume my place
and take my breath as yours
the very pulse of my life
taken for granted,
your laughter echoing in
the chill of my mind,
and the applause of onlookers
so satisfied as
I lay helpless to prevent you.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Covert – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“I wait with silent passion for one gesture, one glance from you.” Rumi
Covert
I can feel you watching and
if I turn around I know I’ll catch you
pretending not to but we never
say a word to spoil this endless
covert game we lovers play.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Truth Costs (The Ballad of Richard Boyle) – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: abc.net.au. Richard Boyle, whistleblower who raised concerns about the Australian Tax Office and debt collection methods known by the archaic term garnishing. Boyle’s concerns have been shown to be grounded and yet he faces substantial jail time for alerting the nation as to a genuine problem.
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. Czeslaw Milosz
Truth Costs (The Ballad of Richard Boyle)
You gangster of words
truthy extraordinaire
crusader of transparency
swimming in a tide of malefaction,
you called it and
told us what it was,
and they cried foul,
so embarrassed that
their little game was up,
but fro the truth
you must pay.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Unnoticed – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Until they become conscious, they will never rebel.” George Orwell ‘1984’
Unnoticed
Naturally
the watchers watch,
even of themselves they dutifully report,
but no one watches the watchers
while they are watching you
not watching,
benignly trusting
so unaware of the surrender
made without flag or treaty
folding so easily it went unnoticed,
and nothing seems different at all,
unless, of course,
you dare to have an opinion.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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