A Curse On All Who Enable - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon

When Spoken - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Mircea Iancu from Pixabay “… our voices growing vague and weary as time passes …” Charlie Smith When SpokenSomeone once claimed a talking dogI only heard circumstantial barking,the neighbour's parrot said hello butit had no existential knowledgejust a parrots mnemonic respone,I have wordsbut what are they,I read somewhere that wordswhen spokenmean the opposite of said things,that…

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Vagrant Persona - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay “And in these Shades the false Imposter met” Anne Kingsmill Finch Vagrant PersonaAs we sat talking heopened up to me ofa life arrested,with a deep sadness I listened long,it was likeentering a mansion ofgreat opulence butwhere the ownerchose to exist in thedusty garden shed,he seemed unwilling to move into his own skin. Copyright 2024 ©️Paul Vincent…

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Swept Up - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words) with an invitation to write a poem using the word or any of its forms – lift. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Ready For Liftoff Image by Khusen Rustamov from Pixabay “… and my soul is swept up in joy.” Uvavnuk (Iglulik Eskimo, 19th C. Trans. Hane Hirschfield) Swept UpLyftthe highest spaceeven to the seventh,elysian fieldsJuno's provinceabove the…

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Chou - haiku by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay “The bite into the round jubilance of peach.” Li-Young Lee Chou Any name might doeight immortals of the fruit,exalted spring peach Copyright 2024 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️ Not: the Chinese ideogram shou or Chou is based by shape on the pit of a peach.

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Repeat - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Gif: found on GIPHY “What are we doing here?” Wilfred Owen RepeatIs it a gift , or is a GIF just a comment that weare only ever a three secondrepeat cycle where even anticipation cannot thwartthe gaze or the amusement,a Sisyphean addiction -click, repeat, foreverwith no rinse cycle,the sum of our abilitiescreative genius asmere pretext,opium in free flow. Copyright 2024 ©️Paul Vincent…

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All Fizz - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image: wallpapercave.com “I tend the mobile now like an injured bird.” Carol Anne Duffy All FizzWhere were we,O yes,decision blindnessawaiting heuristic massageburied in consensus shadowsof our strangely engineeredculture,small wonder it ran out of steam,so easily substituted with the likes of cognitive lemonade,comes the laconic directive talk among yourselvesor the hook -you might also like…

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Entropic - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image: neurosciencenews.com “In each item’s rightful place, lies the secret to peaceful days.” Michael Anderson Entropic The house gods were rumbling,a certain volume of discord some resonance, vibratoentropy - everything expected isbehind the unexpected,the erased layershave reappeared Kondo would faint,but even she wouldn't sandwich the tailsor permit the elvesto pile sand in the bedor smear…

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Cup Of Swirl - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

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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