That Old Melancholia - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon

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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Pale Cairn - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

An Ekphrastic for Paul Brooke’s Ekphrastic Challenge Art Work: Sara Elizabeth Bell ‘Stone Tower, Laurel Creek’ Pale CairnTrickle above a whisperpast the pale cairn of hopesomeone carefully laid as guide for the watershould it fail to see itsdownward directionalong this bed of life,neatly tucked into my witness eye whichmight later recount atold you so if it daredto find its own way,the cairn a…

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Not Wanting To Believe - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: dupreestrees.com “monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum” Virgil ‘The Aeneid’ Book 3 – line 658 (trans – “a huge horrible monster whose light has been taken away” or “A monster frightful, immense, with sight removed” – Polyphemus, or Cyclops) Not Wanting To BelieveThe tree died before it diedit was, to the eye, fully aliveand yet it was dead to its core,just the shoots…

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Gouache Me - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Mish is hosting the Quadrille (44 words) with an invitation to write a poem on the word Hint. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Can You Take A Hint? Image: found on pinterest.com “Why would we want to scourge our softness to straight lines like a Mondrian painting?” Marge Piercy Gouache MeTaut canvaspine ribs showing,O gouache me slowlywith that real ox hairbrushing,…

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Dina Matar (دينا مطر), What It Means to be Palestinian. Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood, I.B. Tauris, London and New York, NY, 2011 [Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut]

The Life Of Words - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image: pixabay.com “‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death.” Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Life Of WordsSometimes I musewondering what if I'd nevertaken that particular pathwhere would I be now?I ponder words and what if I'd never said those particular words,where would I be now?Like shook champagne words spew with forceconstructing meaningslike spilt amoeba.Words…

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Laughs As It Stabs - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: pexels.com “Denial – – is the only fact perceived by the denied – -” Emily Dickinson Laughs As It StabsPaint the house garishdig a new gardenrearrange the interiorwash the dogstyle my hairfind a new jobnew partnernew clothesmore new clothesnew car,anything butfacing the real,as if denial is avirtue and will winthe day,let's go to marsnow that we havestuffed up earth,as if that will…

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Ambient - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Somonka – Japanese origin: Two tankas (each trad. syllabic – 57577), usually written by two poets one responding to the other, written as two love letters. This was a solo effort. Image by StockSnap from Pixabay “Something else is alive” Ted Hughes AmbientOrion off-centrenever shines in moon's shadowin those darker months,as we too are subtly hiddeneclipsed by stars distraction.Even shadow…

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Will You Take My Hand? - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Form with an invitation to write a (English) Madrigal – as follows: Content: Often includes a theme of love Structure of an English madrigal *Usually written in iambic pentameter.*Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.*All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains. Form: A thirteen-line form in three stanzas:Stanza 1] Tercet…

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