Spark - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon

Sorry, Not Buying Today - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: supernanny.co.uk “… away from this impressive terror I must be …” June Jordan Sorry, Not Buying TodayMy motheris an almanacher mouth runs longheart slow to speakof anything but self,in responseperhaps a practicefor repose,my father was mutethough his fists spokea dialect I knew well,I called it duck and weave,sometimes by wordoften by muscle,the object -avoiding painsurvivalin a place…

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Meanwhile - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: taken at Lake Margarette, September 22 – bobtail lizard. “And the lizards each gone to his dwelling” Percy Bysshe Shelley MeanwhileI left the leavesdidn't rake,a small thing caught my eyebobtail's skinonce comfortablenow shedfor something new,I skirted round left it there as testimony to sacrednesshow life is up and down,as I stoodperhaps as witness,birds came byfrogs, lizards,native…

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Cutting The Cord - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: pixels.com “The whisper trembling in the wind” Lewis Carroll Cutting the CordThose days of simoomrelentlesswearingwhen everything seemed to be fractiousnerves on end seasoned woundsdog licked sores,painthe lanced boil ofheartache for humanitywho would rather live in misery than hope,a living deathdisguised as peacebroken shadows of jousted mills,a pretence of ends bypathologies of…

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As Yet Unclear - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Punam is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem about regret – for more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Regrets and more … Photo: metapress.com “We will be what we could be. Do not say, “It might have been, had not or that, or this.”” Ella Wheeler Wilcox As Yet UnclearIn hindsightany attempt at regret, that bastard child of grief,is euthanised by…

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Wanting - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Dora is hosting Poetics with an invitation to take the example of Sandra Cisneros where she takes Spanish words that have no direct English equivalent and uses them to form the poem ‘I Have No Word In English For’ Dora has provided Cisneros’ words of which we can choose one, two or many of the words, incorporating them in our own poem. For more detail and to see the two choices offered…

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Kawase Hasui, Inokashira in Snow, 1928 (source).

I Strike A Match - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Dirk (Beeki®) Schumacher from Pixabay “Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality” Jean Cocteau I Strike A MatchThe old house is fullso many lifetimes,ghosts of secrets lingerin the shifting shadowswaiting their moment,that one opportunityto scare the livingwith their truthsof forgotten liesballed up like lintin neglected corners,as I…

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Choice Is Antithetical - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Open Link Night (with live edition) the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Image by Markus Winkler from Pixabay “The end of choice, the last of hope …” Philip Larkin Choice Is Antithetical In my teensa clarity of insight - choice is antithetical,I'm quite capable of decidingbetween two things -let's saybrown or blue sweater,it could go either way,…

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From Where Are You Looking? - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay “My candle burns at both ends …” Edna St. Vincent Millay From Where Are You Looking?Have you ever noticedhow time is unequal,would you agreethat winter takes its long time whilesummer skips alongas redolent childforgetting autumneschewing winter,time has its own agendait will andit won't,rarely does it add up,there's no jumping ahead,always the questionsfrom…

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