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April 14, 2023 · 2:47 pm

Surely Two Are Better? – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem using Line Messaging where the last line of each stanza brings forth and represent an idea, a thought and notion, as developed by Angel Favazza. For more detail on this interesting form follow the link below.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Line Messaging

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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” Jodi Picoult

Surely Two Are Better?

My eyes are stitched to you like a rag doll,
little crosses holding me together,
not unlike the ones we sometimes bear,
love does lift me whole.

My heart sometimes becomes heavy,
but there are moments when we share
the push and pull of life together,
surely two are better than one?

Each day brings its treasures along,
some welcome and some not so,
it takes time to accept things like that,
so we fixed a symbol of our love in the sky.


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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 10, 2023 · 3:46 pm

There Goes The Family Again – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a tercet, choosing from a list either a compound word, or three words connected. I chose Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Three Way Split

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“The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” Gerard Manley Hopkins

There Goes The Family Again

1. Typical father, running late of excuses,
drove his son to the Bethlehem saloon
for his starring role in a nativity play,
and the customary custody handover,
or Mary would let him have it.

2. What is it with Spanish mothers,
is it true that every second male is 
named Jesus, for god's sake why?
Are they all fishermen at play,
pulling coins from the mouths of fish?

3. The father ordered a second round,
the bar tender leered long at Mary,
dad drew and shot him full of that
one hundred percent  proof 67 spirit,
that got him cupid in the heart.


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February 10, 2023 · 4:16 pm

On Every Point – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meet the Bar with an invitation to take two prose works and take a page form each, and from those pages take lines that appeal and weave them into a poem.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Patchworking Some Prose

The two pieces of prose I have chosen are:

  1. ‘Finnegans Wake’ by James Joyce – lines from Location 448 of the Kindle version.
  2. ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song’ by Bob Dylan – lines from page 2 of the Kindle version.
The first line is from Finnegans Wake, and then alternating.




"I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours." Christopher Isherwood

On Every Point

On every point,
squandering opportunities,
a baser meaning has been 
read into these characters
of which decency can safely, 
scarcely hint, 
one fruitless search after another,
each one taking an unexpected turn,
there are certain statements which ought not to be,
nobody will ask you for an explanation,
seems like you've been here your whole life.
The piece was this,
look at the lamps,
you rode a train full of merchandise northbound.


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January 13, 2023 · 4:09 pm

Right Now – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem using the first line of the first poem for each month of 2022 (found poetry or found lines).

dVerse Poets – MTB – Finding It First

Right Now


Sun heats the earth,
hitchcockian howl growl winds push water into
thunderous demolition of delicate sands,
it wasn't sudden by any means.

I want to sit in the light,
sometimes we are like an overflowing glass;
the road behind has been and is no more.

To feel complete detachment
my friend's father took us fishing one night,
I watched him for a while.

If you drift,
walking,
do you speak with your voice?


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Line Links:

Line one - Journey to Celebration
Line two - The Unfolding
Line three - No Bluff On The Knoll
Line four - Everything
Line five - The Paradox
Line six     The Real Journey
Line seven -  Nothing Should Own Us
Line eight  -  Beware The Hooks
Line nine  - Just Stop
Line 10 -  Those Coral Crowns
Line 11 - Not Alone
Line 12 -  From The Let Go

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December 16, 2022 · 2:52 pm

In My Springtime – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Grace is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a poem in the Zen style. For more detail and examples please follow the link below.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Zen Poetry

“When the body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.” Dogen

In My Springtime

I saw a road and 
I set out on its journey,
seeking the songs of magpies,
a spring soliloquy of life.

In the walking
the road was not a road,
the journey was not a journey,
there were no songs of magpies.

A little further and
the road was a road again,
the journey was mine and I 
began to understand the songs of magpies.


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December 2, 2022 · 1:20 pm

How Light I Am – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to construct a poem by using the last lines from the last twelve poems written or, use a last lines index from a book to construct from the poems of others.

dVerse Poets – MTB – In My End Is My Beginning

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“What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.” Charlie Chaplin 

How Light I Am

Called Aphrodite
while mulling over the juice of my thoughts,
and then there were none,
is life always having to reduce to mere frippery,
and neither am I  or the things I hold close,
once you notice them
I never want to let go,
is love impotent,
navigated wreckage,
the next fully alive,
O how I wish I could see it,
how light I am.


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November 18, 2022 · 2:26 pm

Dear Alex – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to choose one of five book inscriptions and use it as an epigram, and they to write a poem.

dVerse Poets – Meeting The Bar – On The Fly Leaf

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The inscription I chose was:

“Alex – a few moments of reading pleasure in return for an evening of sensual delights. Denis” Jean Anthelme 

Dear Alex

Dear Alex,
I've binned the bottles and stowed
the leftover chicken,
O what a night we had,
a drunken reverie fit for Bacchus,
like a game of twister gone wrong,
interweaving, interloping,
our glass always full,
I finished the cheese on which we supped,
and I washed your skirt that fell with grace,
which you left with haste as we dined with lust
upon our divine flesh,
salted with amour.


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November 4, 2022 · 4:14 pm

The Fighter – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a Bref Double. Bjorn offers some fine detail so follow the link below. A Bref Double is a French quatorzain so it can fool you into thinking it might be a sonnet but it isn’t, due to the variable and various rhyme schemes. It consists of three quatrains and a couplet, fourteen lines in total. There is no meter, but the lines should be the same length. Generally a short narrative though some use lyrical form.

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“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.” Golda Meir

The Fighter

He was almost discarded,
smaller than a shoebox,
ladies size well under,
her wishes complied.

Never disregarded,
a young man stolid,
grown as an athlete,
his father took pride.

His life wasn't horrid,
defied modern medicine,
marathons of foot fleet,
but also man of thunder.

Ever shy and guarded,
a miracle of wonder.


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Note: as the story goes, the doctors felt that my father might not survive post birth, he was very premature and it was suggested that he be "let go." He went on to run marathons and took up amateur boxing, winning awards in both. He was a fighter in every sense of the word.

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August 26, 2022 · 12:36 pm

Since And Again – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to choose one of five lines and to invert the line to vertical making each word the beginning of a line for a new poem.

The line I have chosen is “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.” from ‘Idea 61’ by Michael Drayton.

dVerse Poets – MTB – Vertical Lines of kisses

“I never want to stop making memories with you.” Pierre Jeanty

Since And Again

Since the first time
there's been no holding back,
no sense of moderation,
help me in my distress,
come, hold me closer, tighter,
let us retire to best of
us in every possible way,
kiss me now with thick passion,
and again, again,
part from me never.


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