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November 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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As Always – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Li is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem including some form of the word coax. dVerse Poets - Quadrille - Coaxing Is As It Does Photo: found at mallenbaker.net As AlwaysThat cokessuch a fool…
As Always – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Li is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem including some form of the word coax. dVerse Poets - Quadrille - Coaxing Is As It Does Photo: found at mallenbaker.net As AlwaysThat cokessuch a fool abroadeasily ledcock no hencrows about anything,of coursenothing of substance…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Devouring Egos

Kali turns in her sleep
earthquakes, harbingers
of her insatiable appetite
terrifying mother both
nurturer and destroyer
rattling skulls adorn
all-consuming deity

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November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A wee contribution to this week's #poemsabout #desire. Short, simple, an old poem re-written, nice to revisit it. Thanks everyone for the wonderful sharing, particularly thinking of @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
You I ache for you we cannot be together without this ocean in between I desire you the landscape of your body mapping softness to my touch your head resting on my shoulder
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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For the #PoemsAbout #Desire prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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A second one for #PoemsAbout #desire. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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For #PoemsAbout #Desire this is a piece called ‘A Snake Sheds Its Skin In Eden’.

Will catch up later with others work.

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A Snake Sheds Its Skin In Eden I watch the saliva-slick river of devilbright pomegranate juice snake down the canyons of her face. Forbidden fruit. Her flesh, plucked from the harp of my rib— naked, as my maker is brutal. Soft. Cold. Prickled. Unforbidden fruit, mine to savour. Are you staring too? Are you staring too? Are you? I can’t hear you over lust in your breath and gritchurn of teeth. Admire the pinnacle of creation. I hold the power of the divine, your new God. A snake writhes. Ecdysis in motion. Beasts, ever-changing— succumb to temptation, gorge yourself.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it, and it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it"
---- Eleanor Roosevelt
Eventually Desire guarded by a clichéd alabaster sun Tearing through rough cut granite clouds Strips and ribbons My hand shakes above my eyes in an imperfect salute Staring out Navigating towards a place I have never been with only the vaguest of directions, A hint encased in an idea, A map of 'maybe's and 'might be's Alternating Hope and Determination Depending on which moves me forward On which day. Believing in my arrival Knowing it is possible To breathe a free breath, turn my back to The sky, and settle in peace.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Between – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Jürgen from Pixabay Between momentsin the roll of yearswhere I have feltso contented thattime's elasticitystretched so muchit completely disappeareduntil the night heron sangreturning time,leaving me in thatwonderland between grateful and…
Between – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image by Jürgen from Pixabay Between momentsin the roll of yearswhere I have feltso contented thattime's elasticitystretched so muchit completely disappeareduntil the night heron sangreturning time,leaving me in thatwonderland between grateful and ungrateful. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️
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November 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Good morning! I had trouble with this one--do I write that every week?😂 I wrote two short ones that maybe I'll post later, but then I decided to consult the Oracle for inspiration for this third one. #PoemsAbout #Desire
Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Poem: Haunted The hard need of the heart, like flower-celebrations, like cloud-bellies opening— soft rain, salt-scent, storms-- you wonder about it later, after life over without a word.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Good morning my fellow #PoemsAbout #Desire poets!
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Another exciting prompt! I am excited to read and experience everyone's artistic prowess!
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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I have two pieces for today's #PoemsAbout #Desire .. this is the first, Flame..
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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these words got me writing on contraband #desire and an old piece in the comments
#unbearable
#Emoetry
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For Transport A memory like a bright wound: unbearable because it glows, because it won’t stop asking to be carried across whatever border I make. I keep writing nothing to declare, but the paper blisters with light— a small contraband sun desperate to escape the bureaucracy of my body. Transport isn’t the right word. It abducts. Grabs me by the scruff of my mind and drops me in the place I swore I’d never return. What I refused keeps crossing back over me— slipping the line, sliding past the guard in my chest. I try to nix it, make the refusal clean, administrative, final, but you know the three-letter word burning under the stamp, the one shaped like a mouth opening. Unbearable, the way the exile I chose still loops me toward that same bright heat, how I walk with it anyway, half-cocked and glimmer-drunk, that tripwire tension I can’t risk touching.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Roman Emperor Hadrian loved a young man named Antinous. History turned their passion into rumour #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
A God of Flesh and Marble (Hadrian remembers Antinous) They say we used to canoodle; a word too soft for the solemn silk of your body folded into mine. Too coy for the way your breath halted my empire. They don't say love, not for men like us draped in marble and consequence. Unly rumours, reliefs, a glint in the eye of a broken statue. Only gods dare name it. You, river-born and taken by river, drowned not in current but in the undertow of politics, prophecy, or my own fearful need. I built cities from your absence. They deny our love. But they weren't there when the world slipped from your wet, unbreathing mouth.
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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A quick #haiku in response to today's #PoemsAbout response #Desire from @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Very best wishes to @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Looking forward to reading and responding to other responses #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoets
November 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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More snails I’m afraid! #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday!
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November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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For this week's #PoemsAbout #Desire, I'm thinking about things that are easy to break.

Thank you to the host @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk and to all of the other writers.

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what i want is so easy to break caught between the moment i fold and call you and the moment i decide i won’t, we send small messages. i set a timer so i don’t answer too soon. then my mind interrupts— a line i once read: some powerful man calling a woman a bomb. my desire, as my distress, spreads slowly outward. i think about saying your name in that scared little-girl voice i hate in myself. i stay quiet as a fault line. the timer goes. my hand moves. i’m holding my breath. you’re not coming. so i sit with what shakes me— the want i won’t name without fear of what it opens.
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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We took what was not ours
from another's table—
devouring it whole,
so that no one could
reclaim it...

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November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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For this week's #PoemsAbout #Desire with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating.
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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For #PoemsAbout #Desire ✨

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I know I need to learn how to edit but this is another one of those that just burst out of me in a fountain of blood and snot. It kind of had to get out, I guess.
Desire She asks me, what do you want, and I say I need a raging cattle gun between my eyes. I say, I want to go crazy, like real crazy, not this choked silent suffering but a scream that will burst every seam-crazy, neon-crazy, heroin-crazy, woman with her head in the oven-crazy. The kind with confetti and ambulances. Chalk outlines. Hot as brimstone, emergency room-bright. Look here, I want to open this here window and jump the fuck right out of it. I want to cut deeper. Darker, more demented, more desperate. I want to hemorrhage. I want you to have to sew me back together from scratch, without all of the mistakes, the failure, the fear. Twenty-one stitches is not nearly enough. You ask me, why, and I say, desire desire desire. I am going mad with desire. for him for love for belonging for applause for a hand around my neck for fame for attention for death for cheating death for outliving for the blood of christ For the rush of losing your mind. The desire to cross that line. I want to be the lady in the park that coos at the doves and flaps her arms like wings. I want to dangle from the precipice like a leaf in October, I want to be a tightrope dancer across all of your edges. I want to be that patient on the ward who barks the whole day long like a frenzied dog. I want to stick needles into my arm until I squeal like a porcupine. I want my veins fat with methamphetamine. I want a harder door, a bluer bruise, a more brutal concussion. I want to bash my head against this wall until I laugh again. I want to tear this room down this skin this padded cell a world a girl a wound that hurts like fire that is too sharp to touch to kill to feel to fuck. I want to leave myself behind to become everybody else. I want to be a poet I want to be a lover rockstar priest saint cult leader a goddamn work of art I am possessed by desire and empty as all hell.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Four today’s #PoemsAbout , #Desire that pulses through the subconscious—looking for cracks to gush out…

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November 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Baggage – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by katyveldhorst from Pixabay Baggage Bags packedvisas heavy in pocketjet fuel expended longhours into sunsets far,an attempt to reframejust for a week,a paradise reset withturquoise water andfine white sand,sophisticated cocktailswith crass comedic…
Baggage – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image by katyveldhorst from Pixabay Baggage Bags packedvisas heavy in pocketjet fuel expended longhours into sunsets far,an attempt to reframejust for a week,a paradise reset withturquoise water andfine white sand,sophisticated cocktailswith crass comedic names,you came with such asmall bag and whencarefully asked byintrusion you venturedthat you thought you had…
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November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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If I Were A We – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Ian Ingalula from Pixabay If I Were A WeWhat will be this daywill it be the disappointment of other daysthat have been less than,am I the dayam I disappointmentam I less than, orwill this day be the daywhere my body fills with joy,will I be…
If I Were A We – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image by Ian Ingalula from Pixabay If I Were A WeWhat will be this daywill it be the disappointment of other daysthat have been less than,am I the dayam I disappointmentam I less than, orwill this day be the daywhere my body fills with joy,will I be joyspreadingjoy to the world?If I were a wethen joy may well be. Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent CannonAll Rights Reserved ®️
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November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Very Soon – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a Chaucerian Roundel - Thus we distinguish the Chaucerian Roundel from all other forms as well as from The Rondel and Rondeau. And by now you’ve guessed that our poetry today is to be…
Very Soon – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting the Bar with an invitation to write a Chaucerian Roundel - Thus we distinguish the Chaucerian Roundel from all other forms as well as from The Rondel and Rondeau. And by now you’ve guessed that our poetry today is to be written as Chaucer outlines: Poetry Style: 13 lines 3 stanzas divided into 3 lines (tercet); 4 lines (quatrain) 6 lines (sestet)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM