The Softness Of Love - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon
The Softness Of Love - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: careersplay.com “A summer fanned with spice” Alfred Lord Tennyson The Softness Of Love The valley of cloveswhere genies trade,six days by canvas sailfrom India to anarchipelago unknown,a place without ailmentwhere the old are youngand the young are free,cinnamon, cloves,nutmeg subtledressed in soft redso sweet, pleasant to taste,she hid among the treeselusiveher smile so shy,the foreign…
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What Signs - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: commons.wikimedia.com “Since I can’t go where I need to go … then I must … go where the signs point” Nikki Giovanni What Signs?Looking out over the roadSometimes I smile(though a few times I too have been caught)at the holiday makersgrasping at the prize ofa short cut down to the river,rushing down our street with caravans in towor the bulk of a winnebago missing the sign which saysNo…
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I Wondered - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: exibartstreet.com “I languish in thy penetrating clasp” Ameen Rihani I WonderedI wandered along the pavementfamiliar cracks and gumand the dum, dum, dum, ofthe crawling traffic, leaves clattering the autumn ground,smell of coffee my destinationcouple kissing in the lee,inside all dusky, dusty hipstergreasy thumbed newsspilled coffee soaking crumbs,he crimps my loyalty cardI carry my…
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Ever Nascent - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write – a WaltMarie poetry style: 10 lines even lines are just 2 syllables odd lines are longer but without syllable restriction the even lines make their own mini-poem if read separately meter and rhyme are unspecified And the theme of your poem should be the history/meaning of your name or one you wish you had or an…
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Whiskey With Kant - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Dora is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a dialogue poem, fo rmore detail and resource follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – Dialogue It In Image: freepik.com “Philosophy was an activity not a doctrine.” David Lehman Whiskey With KantP "So, the thing, what is the thing?"K "Ah, the ding an sich?"P "Yes"K "Well the thing is itself"P "Sounds dualistic"K "No, no,…
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Compassionate Resistance - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Open Link Night with Live Edition, the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: theartistnextlevel.com “I refuse to be claimed.” Naomi Shihab Nye Compassionate ResistanceI write the word noit's my defiance in an age whenyes has become aplague of expectation,where compliance ismerely anticipated,a fait accompli,but I left that paddock long ago and…
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Towards A New Manifesto - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image: clipart-library.com “carrying their empty fists of sorrow everywhere” Francisco X. Alarcon Towards A New ManifestoHow strangethat we can think and feelyet still be so utterly dumb,completely unawareof the fibres of prejudicethat infiltrate and lurkin our very being.Not all Jews are zionistsnot all Muslims are terroristsnot all Christians are fundamentalistsmost refugees are only…
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From Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day
