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“Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.” Richard E. Byrd
When the shadow takes all
we lose our deep, inner sight
and chaos presents
so beautifully as need,
as urgency,
wrapped and double wrapped
all shiny and shouting,
like sirens calling us onto the
rocks unaware,
how little we know ourselves,
and how little we really need.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Economics, environment, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem
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“I’ll come and make love to you at five o’clock. If I’m late, start without me.” Tallulah Bankhead
She came round at twelve for lunch,
the moment was perfect
so many flavours and textures and
we thoroughly indulged, noting later
that the meal was delicious too.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under challenge, Five Lines, food, Free Verse, life, love, poem, quote, relationship, Sex
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
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“Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night.” Sharon Weil
I want to laugh
as infectious giggles fill the air
a family,
its youngest gifted a balloon,
so enthralled, excited
running carefree,
trusting, or was it forgetting
with a letting go
just to see it floating,
the child was sad and crying,
but I really understood that balloon,
and I held it in my heart
gifted by its freedom.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote
Photo: Hardy Inlet, Blackwood River, three pelicans in the shallows.
“Many pelicans fish by swimming in cooperative groups …” National Geographic
Just a grey October day where
the river reflects its sky so well,
a flash of white dazzles on the
far eastern shoreline
a painter’s bold smudge,
the air murmurs but doesn’t move,
gulls and terns circle and pass,
suddenly the daub of paint moves
and catches my eye,
five birds take to the sky
thermal surfers wheeling and circling,
soon five more, and another,
till forty pelicans align in a
grace that belies their size
and somehow the world seems
to be a better place.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under beach, bush walking, Free Verse, life, nature, poem
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“I’ve begun to realise that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all of its own.” Chaim Potok
Such a sumptuous feast
with food to die for,
true nurture for the body
is gift too for the soul,
inseparable elements,
but, even so
the real food that nurtures
is quite something else,
the presence of absence,
a stillness of silence
an inactive being
that enables me whole.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, meditation, mindfulness, poem, quote
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“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.” Andy Warhol
The house is quite still though the door,
familiar evening smells permeate, and
soft jazz, a quiet horizon, fills my arrival
while the long hours have hungered me
and my stomach cries out,
but nothing could satisfy more than to
follow the breadcrumb trail you’ve left
for me to discover,
this unfamiliar familiarity,
and to savour its delicious steps
ever so slowly.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under challenge, Free Verse, love, poem, quote, relationship, Sex
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“My eyes were in my feet.” Nan Shepherd
As a child she’d waddled ungainly
the floors called home,
till that time of walking,
waking and leaving,
she’d sashayed for a while so svelte
till she’d entranced and captured another,
then in longer years unbridled in
unconscious freedoms
eventually returning to the beginning,
and lately she’s been waddling again
those floors called home.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, quote, relationship
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“Without peanut butter, I might starve.” Judy Blume
Oil sizzles and you knock back the heat,
the heart races as you pile in garlic, onion, chilli,
along with coconut milk, sugar and soy,
but it wouldn’t be satay, it wouldn’t be right
without two tablespoons of peanut butter.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under challenge, Five Lines, food, Free Verse, life, poem, quote
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“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh
You’d had a day like a worn shoe
all downtrodden with face askew,
all frowned up not wanting to go,
and I was liberty
with you in my arms,
whispering our secret words
which curved your lips
and gleamed your eyes
as rising sun.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, love, poem, Quadrille, quote, relationship
Bjorn at dVerse has invited us to speak metaphorically.
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I desire to write the curves of you
that my fingers might dance you, and
having dipped my quill in the
dark well of your silken ink
that glides my page with
such soft egress,
we would language in caress
as whispered feathers
fly to purring clouds.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Note: Extasis – Latin borrowed from the Greek – ecstasy or rapture.
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Filed under challenge, Free Verse, love, poem, quote, relationship, romance, Sex
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Signu calabrisi ma sulu i nascita, picchì sta terra haju abbandunatu. Quanti ricurdi dintra sta capu, i mia piccirilla, i mia quatrarella. Ma vugliu turnare Calabria mia, picchì 'ntu core si sempri ccu mia
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Signu calabrisi ma sulu i nascita, picchì sta terra haju abbandunatu. Quanti ricurdi dintra sta capu, i mia piccirilla, i mia quatrarella. Ma vugliu turnare Calabria mia, picchì 'ntu core si sempri ccu mia
Dragostea de oameni nu este un model sculptat în piatră sau smuls de vântul ce trece printre frunzele copacilor, vocea ei este șoapta ce ne alintă sufletul.
365 days a lens LG/Samsung
Frequent Musings Through Poetry & Prose
One girl going green, hoping that others will join her.
COLLECTED THOUGHTS UNFOLDED
thoughts of mine
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"I am a Poetess and a Hue!"
