Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay “I read somewhere, “we become lyrical when we suffer.” Elisa Gabbert RecallingWhy nowin a dental surgeryforty-five years latercar crash comes recalling,the childhood orthodonticsnot-with-standing followedby volleyball face-plant,extensive reconstruction,twenty years laterall done again,then at xmasan amalgam falls away -upper molar number five,procedure…
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Photo: 10000birds.com a pair of Mandarin ducks. “Few recognise that love is commitment …” Nikki Giovanni The Sleep Of Lovers A little bird told me something small enough to be significant about mandarin ducks who sleep the sleep of lovers who when frost and ice intrude swap sides through the night, keeping their exposed sides like their hearts. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights…
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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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(via What Is This Moment? - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon)
Image: found at bondibeauty.com.au via Bing “Let me float across the sky” Maya Angelou She WondersShe is flying sparkledalong the brooding clouds,seeking benedictionabove the forests whooffer lessons in slowness and where the question hums -if the seasons are not welcomedwill they come at all?As she flies she wonders,upon reaching the horizonwill she sing her song and will her words be…
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At dVerse Bjorn is hosting Prosery with an invitation to write a piece of prose (fiction or non-fiction) using the line “Your drew stars around my scars” from the the song Cardigan by Taylor Swift. dVerse Poets – Prosery – Taylor Swift Image: psychcentral.com “We remember the time around scars” Michael Ondaatje Floating Beyond The Scars The mystery of space was always on our lips, that…
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Image by Hans from Pixabay “And we fear the gnomes are just about to strike” Sidney Lanier GnomistryThe gnomes know thingsthey rule,of course they dowith their redporcelain cheeksand pointy hatspudgy arms andbeer bellies,they're so ecognomicever gnomian,they're an agnomallyeven aggnomistin matters esoteric,gnomist in all things,maybe even antignomialin paradox,whatever they arethey're…
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(via Lesser Champions - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon)
Photo: taken at Shoalwater Bay, summer 2021 “a perspective cuts emptiness deep and even …” Joseph Brodsky PerspectiveThat momentwhen you leave the skyand fall into sandscalingtimeto size,noticing the treesremembering mountainselephantsthe sand,smalla parallax moment,seeing my sandness. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️
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At dVerse Melissa is hosting Poetics with an invitation to respond to some of the work of Georgia O’Keeffe’ as an ekphrastic poem and to include a handful of art vocabulary from the provided list. The words I have included are: aesthetic, primitive, patina, coil, montage, decoupage, relief, atelier, distortion, vanishing point. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – Poetics – In…
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I’m very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.