Don't Forget - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon

That Old Melancholia - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: ‘The Good Old Days’ brettfish.co.za “… nostalgia and desire, the two-way ladder between heaven and hell …” Stanley Kunitz That Old Melancholia Have you uttered those fatefully untrue wordsit was great in the (insert decade of rose tint),because we tend to drift by comparisonwhere everyone else is getting ahead of uswhile the past was such beautiful perfection,just a veneer of parasitic…

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Listen To The Song - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Sanaa is hosting Open Link Night (with Saturday Live Edition) – the night we choose a poem to post/read: to join in follow the link below: dVerse Poets – OLN Taken at one of our local cafes in 2023, male magpie – the cake not the coffee methinks 🙂 “The soul wants to fly away when caged, like a bird longing for the open sky” Rumi Listen To The SongGautama always compassionJesus…

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Talgomine Rock - a prose poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: taken in spring (September) 2018 at Talgomine Rock Reserve: Everlastings carpet the bush. “The first lily of June opens its red mouth.” Marge Piercy Talgomine RockRains recede to spring orchids in songs of pastel blues and yellows. Wrens fan, flitter, chatter across the sun-bleached granite and are just as suddenly gone. There’s something comforting about the musky soil that fills me, to…

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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]

Black Feathers - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Monica Volpin from Pixabay “Darkness covering the forest” Maria Veronica Cruz Azores Black FeathersBlack feathers in a white forest,a random solitary collection driftingblown by the winds of wrathchased by yellowed howling hellhoundsin a night when the moon covered herself,warding off the razors edgea sensed danger,dreamed enemies closeeven the gods are not safe,the dragons too have…

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To Kill A Plant - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: found on pinterest.com – trumpet vine. “The poets must give us imagination of peace …” Denise Levertov To Kill A PlantNot a native species a foreign invasive, and against all adviceI planted a trumpet vinebright, orangey fun, butin the blink of my eyeit overran the bordersstrangled my shrubstook over the place,I trimmed and prunedpruned and trimmedto no avail,so I laid the axe on…

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The Tree Of Earthly Delights - an Etheree by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write an Etheree poem in the form of a fir tree. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – MTB – An Etheree Tree Image: vogue.com “Stooped in the still and shadowy air lips unseen – and kissed me there” Walter De La Mare The Tree Of Earthly DelightsOhelloms xmasI see you thereunder mistletoeunder no illusionjust a…

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My Write Heart - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: found at scienceinfo.net via Bing “… now will you rest forever, my tired heart.” Leopardi Giacomo My Write HeartIf my heart were a writerwhat might it write about -grand visionstruths of the pastspeculative thoughts on loveideas of travel to marshopes for peacefood enoughan end to poverty?Nothing particularly original,maybe that's a clue -is my heart more about fiction? Copyright 2025…

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