At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night – the night to post a poem of your own choosing. dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
“The Lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.” Nita Ambani
Softly As the day passed to night lotus sat in the shadows quietly, till moon touched her softly, stiring a warmth becoming fire, she rose up electric with tingling flesh, and so quickly her perfect flower opened completely inviting, unravelling his tired resistance. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Linda at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night where ewe are invited to post a poem of choice. dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.” Suzy Kassem
Shouting Underwater Those babble mouths, always a crooked apologia for crack cocaine capitalism's endemic asset stripping dealers who're always powdering their own noses, yet always the stench of decay seeps through everywhere, gaslighting the streets, curbing panaceas left, right and centre, and I feel as if I'm on fire and shouting underwater. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“Kai-ros: the perfect, delicate crucial moment, the fleeting rightness of time and place …..”
Just Glad How might I interpret the horizon which once seemed so far away but no longer sits in distant silence, much closeer now to the urgency of words stretched out in nascent expressions of meaning I had not anticipated and, joyfully inviting a lyrical searching that powerfully deepens, even so, I cannot hold on to it, I'm just glad I was here in this place with this question, not having to understand this moment. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.” Jane Hirshfield
Other Voices
The house was not just any house,
it was of me and I of it,
intimacy was every sunken board,
chip and crack of age, and
today for the umpteenth time
the back door squeaked in
greeting at days end,
perhaps that my mind was weary,
and the torture too hard to bear,
that I took the cannister and oiled
that squeak to a silence bare,
peace reigned in all but heart,
I missed that voice,
disturber of life,
provocative spirit,
it made me think.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Photo: George Floyd – New York Times
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
Grace at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night where we post a poem of our own choice. My choice has been influenced by the poems Grace posted as a reflection on the protests and Floyd’s death. So, I’m reblogging an earlier OLN poem about George Floyd that I wrote in the moment of grief having watched the video of his murder. Still can’t get it out of my mind, can’t erase the anger I feel of the injustice to him, and sadly, for so many.
"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, he 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
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
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Mish is hosting Open Link Night at dVerse – the night we choose a poem to post.
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“It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty purposeless lives ….” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
She was never shy
and so we kept hidden
somewhere out back for
her own sake, you understand,
too brazen, taken to impulsive acts,
impetuous, ill-mannered,
an embarrassment to us all,
but she got our recently,
crept through her window
to play in the streets,
lifting her skirts at all,
laughing derisively as
they run, as run they should
in this season of the
end of everything where we
have hidden from ourselves,
while death has cast her shadow
and yet returned us to life.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under death, Free Verse, life, poem, quote
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Kim at dVerse is hosting Open Link Night where we are invited to choose one of our poems to post.
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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” Marianne Williamson
Bated breath I hold,
waiting to wave goodbye
to those century-old habits
that have imposed themselves
from the dusty corners
of my existence as familiars,
waiting for something
meaningful which lies
beyond the self,
communities of care,
where nothing is jaundiced,
and no one is consumed,
this is the moment
where we turn to each
other.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under community, Economics, Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote, relationship
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Lillian at dVerse is hosting OPen Link Night where there is an opportunity to post a poem of your choosing.
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“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell
I traveled to a conversation
wrapped in brown paper
to honour details of
ruins punctured by dull rain
on a fractured landscape of desire,
where feelings opened beyond
the sheets of comfort of small lives
to lyrical and generous overtures
which lead me to dance a
perspective of time that
suggests an eternity.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, quote, relationship
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night where we are invited to post a poem of our own choosing.
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“They are the chosen ones who have surrendered.” Rumi
Ordinarily, power navigates life,
and we only surrender in that
moment when we can go no more,
because surely that is safe and
we have dignified our ego
and justified our place,
but the alchemy of life
conspires against us,
drawing us to rise to
the real hero’s journey of
courageous humility and that
strange discomfort of
scant attention to self.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
Filed under Free Verse, mindfulness, poem, quote
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Short articles to bring inspiration to people.
On returning to God after giving up "God"
Suddenly single again - this is my life, unflitered.
Traveler of mind, wanderer for life.
A place where Linda brings out thoughts and stories within
My Scribbles will make your heart dance💞
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