Day: December 21, 2020

Those were the days, my friend.

~ thereluctantpoet

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 Those were the days, my friend

A snowy day and the mall at Christmas. I saw a pretty face and she saw me looking at her. She waited for a few seconds. She came to me and she hugged me hard and tightly.  I kissed her lips without a thought. Once we were great lovers and war/life stole us to new places.

She was embarrassed by the kiss and I apology  and she laughed. She kissed me back and she told me. “It is okay Johnnie. I am glad you haven’t forgot me. I do remember you. You and I had the best New Year eve before you left for the war in 1991. I am so glad, you did okay. I did pray for you to be safe and sound. You were my wild desperado who wanted to seek the Hemingway life and death.”

I brought her closer, remembering…

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Slanted Days – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

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“Time is an illusion.” Albert Einstein 

Slanted Days

Some days time goes slant,
doing its own most peculiar thing,
upending the laws of physics,
placing me parallel unseen where,
somedays I am beside myself
dancing demented under a
lathering, metronomic pulse,
while there are other days, where
I am warped down in a distorted
sound yawn, like swimming in
hypnosis, a treacled meditation,
wandering me along my way,
some days are just slanted.

©Paul Vincent Cannon

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BELLS

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Word of the Day Challenge

The Word of the Day is Bells

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Sublime

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Word of the Day Challenge

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Today’s Word of the Day is Sublime.

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