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“Careful what you tell yourself, especially if you’re stubborn.” Nitya Prakesh
Jack was a handful
at eighty,
goes sideways a lot
his feet don’t lift the same,
Rosie called appointment time
but old Jack’s mind
played a fifties reel,
he always pushed it late,
Rosie knew that like concrete
Jack was set in his ways.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, Quadrille, quote
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams
I have a memory
of something of a start
collected in the eras
of my many beginnings,
of a long gestated spark
that torched a path,
and, as I look back
I see the embers glowing,
though time is
now extinguishing
my lived meaning.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote
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“forcible intercourse with one individual is called “Rape” and raping thousands of individuals at a time is called “Politics.” Srinivas Shenoy
It’s a politicians job to lie,
but the public need a facade
window dressing
with dummies and all,
emperors without clothes,
and no one dares shout out,
we now serve the politicians
as they once served us,
but I wish they’d just nick off.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, philosophy, poem, politics, quote
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
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
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, poem, politics, Quadrille, quote, Uncategorized, Whistleblowing
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“Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?” Kamand Kojouri
Languid hangs the mist
on my sea of tranquility,
my soul becalmed so restful,
taking leave of the six p.m. paranoia,
that hurricane of disruption
lurking in the corners of the mind
nurturing thoughts
as a cuckoo inhabits another’s,
for sanity
best set aside.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, life, meditation, mindfulness, Quadrille, quote
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“Licence my roving hands, and let them go before, behind, between, above, below.” . John Donne
Of nape and lips
lobes and lids,
a drift of hair,
a flex of sinew,
to draw the same breath
finding that ancient rhythm,
and hand to the rise
describing the cleft and valley
places too dally,
a mind etched,
longing invoked,
an excursion I will take again.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, love, poem, Quadrille, quote, relationship, Sex
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“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.” George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps it was the wine
or the small of your back
we left the terrace behind,
your eyes drank my soul
while we waltzed in the shed
our laughter turning to sigh
and sooner, not later,
the long summer grass
caressed our shuddering whole.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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“Stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone.” Suzy Kassem
He stood alone in their frenzied midst
till their lungs were spent, exhausted,
and when they finally turned to him
in murmured curiosity
he quietly gave voice to their
demons and shadows and doubts
and, in their place, he made
profound their wild hope.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
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Filed under Free Verse, life, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote
dVerse Poets – Open Link Night
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“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” Thich Nhat Hahn
To contemplate breathing
now there’s a thing,
a rhythm of
an inward and outward breath,
so simple really, and yet,
where is the juncture
the beginning or end,
though differently constituted
there are no parts
neither this or that,
just one continuous
seamless movement.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under life, meditation, mindfulness, poem, Quadrille, quote, Spirituality
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Freckle
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He’d dated,
of course he had,
and there’d been plenty of fun,
but he was smitten with Red
who was veiled in fire and
painted with freckled star-scapes,
whose hororscope said
confetti could shower you today,
a serious young woman
whose eyes were smiling.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Filed under Free Verse, love, poem, Quadrille, relationship, romance
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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.
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One girl going green, hoping that others will join her.
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