Wither The Wars - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon
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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Stray Bands - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Melissa is hosting poetics with an invitation to write an ekphrastic poem using one of four paintings by Emil Nolde. The double challenge is to do so knowing the artist originally declaimed his connection to the NAZIs but was eventually outed as having been involved in the NAZI party. Note: There are a number of famous people who fit into this type of moral dilemma – Martin Heidegger…
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The Old Casuarina - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Grace is hosting Open Link Night – the night we choose a poem to post. dVerse Poets – OLN Photo: zmescience.com “And the dead tree gives no shelter.” T.S. Eliot The Old Casuarina I often pass the old casuarina,green tobrown to grey,soft to hardthe end of sap,juice of the livinggonedead,elemental washthe smooth soon enoughsplits and pits,what once coherednow shredded,a fibrous…
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Keep That Dam Wall - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Weirs, also known as check dams (Photo by MSU Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture /Robbie Kroger) “Good fences make good neighbours” Robert Frost Keep That Dam WallThose of us at the head of the stream agreedwe needed water and a planwas devised to dam the flow,enough for each nearbyhousehold and still letting much of it go downstream,and for some length of timethis came to be and it worked so…
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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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Plum Bay Go - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image by günter from Pixabay “Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness.” Pablo Neruda Plum Bay GoIf I couldI would tradeall my diamondsthat I don't haveand fly to the bay of plums,you smiledknowing that Iprefer the yellow onesyou the red,red or yellowthey are smooth,lush, yet firm to touchlike the flesh of youthful thighs. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️
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Wiles - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write an Alliterisen – For today’s MTB prompt our poetry follows the style of The Alliterisen, created by Udit Bhatia. It is a 7-line poem (septet) containing a set number of alliterations per line and adhering to a specific syllable structure. I have chosen the non-rhyme scheme version. For more detail follow the link…
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Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged. Israel's Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, November 14, 2024 (pdf here)
The Land Never Lies - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: publicdomainpictures.net “A dream lies dead here.” Dorothy Parker The Land Never LiesWhy do we always blamethe soil of a place,is that where we landwhen we talk about the lie, the big liehow the land lies,but do giraffes lieor grasshopperseucalypts maybe,does only the land lieand how,in statein perpetuity,as fallowshallowsure, all of thatbut land also speaks ofits innocence,…
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