“No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.” John Ruskin
The Question The question formed in my mind, do fish ever swim backwards, but I guessed it to be true enough, for what can go forwards can surely go backwards, humans do it so well, and a new question formed, do the scales of a fish prise open as they swim backwards? And I wondered, naturally, how this might feel. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
“Curious things, habits.” Agatha Christie
The Question Does it bring life, this thing that you do, the habit of a lifetime, week in, week out, which has quietly formed so much of who you are and your understanding of the world and the meaning of your being, without even thinking about its sum and parts, does it bring life? Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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At dVerse, Peter is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to look at first lines – beginnings.
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“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.” Jeanette Winterson
The Question And, so it begins, I buy myself in order to be myself, that I might become a symbol of me, some utopian project where stories abound with the courage of hopelessness, and the maelstrom of warlords in my mind, private pathologies irrupting, ever renewed, the punch line obscure and, finally, the question, how might it end. ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to se me.” Ralph Ellison
The Question When did someone last speak to you in sounds of love, with eyes of invitation and tones of welcome that broke the dam of your invisibility that overwhelms, when did you last tell your story outside of yourself to a world of someone who listened to your deep? ©Paul Vincent Cannon
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Allan Poe
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. - Edgar Allan Poe
Korean cooking, restaurants, and delivery foods
poet and author of The Light in the Cave
A place to freely express emotions and ideas.
Home of Democracy Jones
Man is a self-conscious nothing. ~Julius Bahnsen
"That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works." Psalm 26:7
Welcome to poetry and poetic imagery
📍enthusiasm runs the world
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