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Folktober challenge day 11

For Paul Brookes’ challenge, the image I chose to write to is a painting of the Children of Lir. You can read all the poems here and see the images that inspired them. Fionnuala How did you manage alone in the wildsand three young boys who would never be men? How did you know with […]

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A tragedy in three acts

For the dverse prompt, a piece of prose of 144 words, that includes the line of Bob Dylan’s To her, death is quite romantic. Death isn’t usually something to party to. Her death is. Quite romantic is how her ex-fiancé describes it, with his usual crass stupidity, performance art. All he has ever seen is […]

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Folktober challenge day 10

For today’s challenge, I chose the headless horseman image. You can see all of them and read the poetic contributions on Paul Brookes’ blog here. So Patrick smashed the stone head with a hammer They made him gruesome,his own severed head in hand.They named him Crom Dubh, the dark,twisted one, and they gave him a […]

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Alphabet poetry

The poetry form challenge Paul Brookes tossed out last week was another one I’d never tried. Now or never, I decided and wrote a couple using successive letters of the alphabet to begin each word. The third one is in a different style, in which the first letter of each line follows the order of […]

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New poetry by Paul Vincent Cannon

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Enjoy new poems, brought to you by Paul Vincent Cannon.   No One Mourns A Crassus – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Irrespective Of What Others Might Think – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Nothing Should Own Us – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon Clothesline Blues – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon       […]

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