Best Canon Poems

"canon service"

“We follow the rules here”, he said incorruptibly
like he was untainted as holy water 
from the incorruptible font,
he had an upward inflection in his voice 
at the end of every punctuated point,
delivered like a canon service
his gun and bullets were larger
apparently...he was high, the...

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Winter-spring canon 
Incensed along Jacob's Creek
Like watery angels thought less from clouds above
Canopies of light make soft their entrance
In clucking-pig-progging-and-a-yip-yip-yipping
A shuft-and-shushing of large glass doors
Round about our ways of going
Slipping on the wet pages of our
Winter-spring canon...

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For long I gaze upon the spectacle of a child
And did not comprehend my own heart blind
To the history that left men empty and defiled
Mark how he represents the landscaped mind
Rows and rows of green like wires or a fence
Soft as innocence, and a pink...

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In today's sunlight bleached ... The woman sit
Covered by modernity in a complex view -
Of purple printed dress exhaling his wit:
A purple bag juxtaposes the old with new
She seems to sit on the lowest green rows
Of hill, her mocassin boots in a blue shade
All her...

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I sat myself, by myself…..
Tired, tired of waiting.
Inside I sit like a potted cactus,
Gussied up for the pic.
Don’t know what possessed this dick.

The wide world’s outside
Ancestors pride, the mountains side,
the deserts dance;
yet, here I sit in cowboy? getup?

Like a potted cactus
Gussied up for the pic....

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ACE CANNONS' CANON 

Through the morning, shimmering with colors that wavering, fade
from a desert where heat is a hue, and history's due
cactus and trees, knotted and sparse, a portrait some mad god must'f bade
into being, into the "Otherwise Sane"; set apart from the world, lived...

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how can you tell me

that these delicious morsels

of proletarian sensibility

are not worthy of the canon?...

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Premiered at Al's by the Sea,
Mont Clair, PA - 9/24/2021

THE BOOK OF GENESIS
THE BOOK OF EXODUS
THE BOOK OF NUMBERS
THE BOOK OF JUDGES
THE BOOK OF RUTH
THE BOOK OF KINGS
THE BOOK OF EZRA
THE BOOK OF ESTHER
THE BOOK OF JOB
THE BOOK OF PSALMS
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
THE BOOK OF...

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The Bible contains 72 books
(Or 73 depending whether Lamentations listed as a separate book
Not as a part of Jeremiah)
Varying length from a few hundred words to many thousands

Together, these books comprise the official list or canon of the Bible
These books
45 were written before Christ
Called the...

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I light the flame; the music plays its tune
I close my eyes at breathing’s gentle sigh
To feel you resting there upon my thigh
And there we lay beneath the lady moon.
While willow trees are whispering the breeze
My fingers linger in your ruffled hair
The sparks of love’s...

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Gold or pearl
Zinc or glass
Each has charm

Home or Rome
Earth or sky
Each has norm

Good or bad
In Fate's hands 
Rest so calm 


28 January 2023
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Sponsored by: Sara Kendrick
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Blades
Of green
Support me
Upon the grass
While rain slides down
Creating on hair strands,
A violin serenade,
Its playing Pachelbel's "Canon"
Oh, a wonderful angelic feel
Raindrops bounce off lashes to play along....

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The heart asks questions
That the head wants answers for
 And
This tyrannical heart 
Speaks 
Canons...

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Greek = measuring God, rule, norm
The authoritative collection of 
Sacred scriptures in 
The Old and New Testament of the bible

11302011...

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Canonball  by  Pearcemelville

Canonball  tearing throughtimbertthick
planks 
Canonball  rips thrufleshthroughout
theotherside a hole;:

canonfire        CANONBALL!
        Fszzt fzt Water wave 
Cutlass STrikes  
Daggers dag 
Flintlock singles out
assassination

Pirate swing from boomrope
Young Naval...

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