Where? - Prose By Paul Vincent Cannon

As To Meaning - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: Taken in January, summer storm clouds intensify the rays of the sun on the Southern Ocean. “The best story of course, is the one you can’t write …” Sujata Bhatt As To MeaningTo seeeven the sparklewhere the sun touchesthe ocean's skinis to assumegold and mercuryare friends,that they do in factmeet and the eye is true,as to meaningwell, what is that? Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent…

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Black Heart - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: from obsev.com “For still deception was his trade …” Mary Darby Robinson Black HeartRipe orangeon a stark white tableplain to see,cutlery draw adjacentI took a skewer and pierced ittesting its age,so old,with a knifesectioned it,dry, black hearttaking the peelto the bin,the rest to the whirling dervish bladesto pulp and poured it in the compost bin,haven't seen the worms for…

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Something Deep - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: A white house – found at almostmakesperfect.com “My shadow said to me, what is the matter ….” Margaret Atwood Something DeepI live opposite the white housenot that housemy neighbour's house,glossy in the afternoon sunwindows reflectingpassing birds, carswalkersfront garden,like an aluminium framed Monet,white houselight housebeaming away, exceptmy feeling of resistance,my mood shifts the…

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Ignorance Is Not An Ethical Stance - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: majorcadailybulletin.com cleaning up in Valencia. “If ignorance is bliss, why isn’t the world happier?” Mark Twain Ignorance Is Not An Ethical StanceMy, do you look completely silly in your denial,keep telling me all about your belief that theenvironment is doing fine and that all these turbulent, unprecedented, wild natural events are those one hundred year turns that yoursuperstitious,…

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Don't Forget - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Photo: unelife.com via Bing “Imagine for a moment the still life of our meals” Carol Muske-Dukes Don't ForgetI choose the heavy base panslow time finessingslowly, slowlybalsamicbrown sugarwaterslowly, slowlyrich, dark,soft, gooey reductionspooned into virgin olive oilslowly, slowlydipping sourdoughdrippingrolled in dukkahslowly, slowlygrazes my lipscaptures my sensesslowly, slowlyI forget the…

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Sure - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem that is about lying, for more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – April Fools Image: learning-mind.com “To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, when in fact you haven’t of late, can do no harm.” Richard Wilbur SureO yeah, surekeep goingbut I gotta tell youonly 47% of what you saidis true…

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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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Revisionniste - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Roman Kogomachenko from Pixabay “When the past is all deception” T.S. Eliot Revisionniste What do you want to see,the ghost fiction of your romantic mind played onlife's brassy screen aslipstick on a figment,a ferment of slivers,which one will fall outfirst doesn't really matter,the order is always disordered and none of them will show the unified whole,every memory playedis a chapter…

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Wither The Wars - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Sanaa is hosting poetics with an invitation to play Monopoly with a twist. It involves two options (1) Imagine the board as a literary landscape where each square is a poet, choose one of three images and one of two poets from the mix offered and write a poem inspired by the choices. (2) the board is a reflection of society’s darker undercurrents. For more detail and resource follow the…

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