I need You, like I need water, like I need substance, to be. I don’t want to be, I need to feel alive. Fire needs oxygen, to burn. I need you, to move my heart, be my every breath. I need you, to capture my lungs, become my spoken word. I need you, to be […]

I Need You!

There is no place I’d rather be Than here with you Living this life The ups and downs together You are my always. -Nicole Smith, Momoetry To Ray And to Abby and Colby as we celebrate your wedding today.

A Love Poem

One year older and one hundred years more experienced than he, she broke up with her then-boyfriend who was in his mid-twenties; and he thought: “Well, I’ll give her one good try,” as Harry Chapin once famously sang; she patronized him for months, for he was one year younger and one hundred years less experienced […]

Breakup, or: Breakdown

Confessional Bless us Father for we have sinned it’s been 10,000 years since our last confession and we’ve broken all Your commandments and more. Not only did we eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil but we learned to grow and manufacture our own. And what’s worse we’re not […]

Twenty Love Poems: 8

#2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 22 22.11.22 Prompt: write a love poem Love Is Love is in the mundane, it inhabits the ordinary that passes between two people, it is more that the sum of physics, surpasses metaphysics, shines brighter than any halo of the special, dines out on lunal turns, spins with the […]

Love Is – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Trinidadian Poet Shivanee RamlochanPhoto by Marlon James – Poet’s Official Website   My Poetry Corner November 2022 features the poem “The Abortionist’s Daughter Declares Her Love” from the poetry collection Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting by Shivanee Ramlochan, published by Peepal Tree Press (UK, 2017). Born in the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad & […]

“The Abortionist’s Daughter Declares Her Love” – Poem by Trinidadian Poet Shivanee Ramlochan

Love Poem That night, the child – flowery eyes wide open, sweet skin like candy – stole the moon. He squeezed it in his palm and a thousand St. John’s Lanterns fell on the earth. He giggled. A lily of light bloomed on his shoulder. He touched it with his fingers, purred like a cat, […]

Collage d’amour – poem by Gabriela Marie Milton #love poem #prose poem

what I keep secretis written on my bodyunderneath my skin– what I choose to feelshows up hidden, as tattoosblood-inked inside veins that hostage my heart,a pounding prison of fear–frozen, silent, still– no magic portalarrives to illuminatewho I am and why– only the moon sees, the stars–reflecting me back, alive For W3 prompt #36, where Muri […]

clarity

#2022 November PAD Chapbook Challenge Day 24 24.11.22 prompt: Write a for [blank] poem. e.g. For the sake of the children or, forgive and forget. For The Life Of Me For the life of me I don’t understand how it remains unseen, squashed down, hidden in plain sight, covered over in the sensibilities of a […]

For The Life Of Me – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon