Category Archives: Quadrille

June 2, 2026 · 8:37 pm

I’m Down With That – 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 horn.

dVer Poets – Quadrille – Toot, Toot

Photo: from rollingstone.com – the great Miles Davis

I'm Down With That

Buttery smooth 
back arched
fingers softly 
teasing
valves and slides,
sublime scale
down the spine
groove that feeling,
high hat counter 
bass seduction
the room hangs
on every sound,
and although 
you’re not here
but yet you are,
please Miles 
keep wailing 
that horn.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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May 19, 2026 · 8:46 pm

No More Screen Time – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem using some form of the word dog.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – This One’s Gone To The Dogs

Photo: Taken at home in Augusta November 2022, Vianna – the black Schnauzer has just turned 14; Opal the white Schnauzer is only 4 and quite the communicator.

No More Screen Time

As she picks up her phone
Opal pulls by paw to
bring her hand back to stroking,
she types on her lap top
while Opal taps incessantly to 
bring her attention back, 
I have dog-eared my book
so’s I can watch this 
dogged performance.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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May 5, 2026 · 8:50 pm

Let Beauty Rise – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Lillian is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem including the word, or a form of the word, bloom.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Come Bloom With Me!!!

Photo: Taken at Talgomine Reserve, spring, 2018, everlastings, kilometres of them throughout the wheat belt.

Let Beauty Rise

Mao said
let a hundred flowers bloom
but I say let there be millions 
in every corner where 
misery and oppression
have choked life and beauty,
may they rise everywhere to 
declare an end to the 
rape of nature and the
murder of humanity.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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April 7, 2026 · 9:41 pm

The Bare Bones – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem which includes some form of the word bones.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Writing Down The Bones

Photo: found on tumblr.com

The Bare Bones

Bones boned bone
down  spine
vertical you
banded together
with love
tender tendons
to the muscle
memories of us
lying along the
soft line of your
jaw which I trace
with my eyes
your lips mine
not every touch
discovers bone
which holds you.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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March 24, 2026 · 10:16 pm

When Is Silence? – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Lillian is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write about silence.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Shhhhhhh …. Quiet, Please

Photo: wallpapers.com

When Is Silence?

Silence,
article indefinite
is not in the silence
not even stillness 
nor in absence,
noise a straw argument
merely  pointer of
non-direction
a throw from scent,
noise  merely a carrier 
the silence within 
intertwined 
always present
when we are absent
to our shadow self.



Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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March 10, 2026 · 10:36 pm

This Way That – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) inviting us to write a poem using some form of the word bird.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Bird Is The Word

Photo: A New Holland Honeyeater found at birdfact.com



This Way That

Angels delighting,
moving totem
of gods,
honeyeaters swift
quiet as a murmur,
she came out of
the flock to 
my shoulder, 
singing in bird 
dancing, turning 
this way that
pulling on my beard
jumping to my head,
she left me light 
as a feather.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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January 27, 2026 · 9:24 pm

Trip To Exhaustion – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Punam is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem which includes the word trip.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Fill, Zip, Trip

Photo: found at dicksmithnissanofcolumbia.com

Trip To Exhaustion

Dogs to kennels,
kid next door
to water the garden
jane collecting the mail,
did you get 
travel insurance,
put out the garbage
did you get petrol
let's check the luggage, 
eight hour drive
two weeks, trip
to exhaustion,
then home
for a holiday.




Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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January 13, 2026 · 5:14 pm

I Can See For Smiles – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse De is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write about – Smile or some form of the word. For more detail follow the link below:

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Smile

Image by Prashant Kumar from Pixabay

I Can See For Smiles

One smile leads to another
as reminiscence burgeons 
to connections that flare through
my body to facial muscles 
back to my heart,
a reified loop of happiness 
orienting my polarity, 
I don’t need to look far
because I can see 
for smiles and smiles.

Copyright 2026 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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December 22, 2025 · 10:57 pm

Light Dreams – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Image by Merlin Lightpainting from Pixabay



Light Dreams

If the whole world were
in an impenetrable darkness
the sun in hibernation
I would dream some light,
reach in and carefully gather it
up into my cupped hands and
cast it across the hungry sky 
until every speckle sparked 
in every living thing.

Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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December 16, 2025 · 9:06 pm

I Could – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

At dVerse Mish is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write a poem using the word or any of its forms – hibernate.

dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Hibernate

Image by Myléne from Pixabay A dormant hedgehog.

I Could

When hard rhetoric rises
in the east or the cold chill of 
violence penetrates my heart
or sharp metal on metal
harangues emerge and jar, 
my internal barometer 
warns of storms,
I know I will stand 
but a tiny impulse tugs me
towards hibernation.

Copyright 2025 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon
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