Short Canon Poems

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Premium Member Canon

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

11302011
Form: Quatrain


My Canon

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.
Form: Etheree

Premium Member Canon

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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Form: Other

Premium Member Light Keeper's Testament - the Gnostic Canon

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 ADVERBS
THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
Form: List

Premium Member Self Portrait / T. C. Canon

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.
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium Member Winter-Spring Canon

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

Canon Ef Slr

Hey Lord won't you let me
use my Canon EF
Its one of my collections best
with copal platinum  blades
shooting at 1/60 of a second
to stop camera shake
at focal length of  50mm,
setting my aperture on auto
ranging from F 4 to F11
vertical horizontal pictures galore
With stepped gears
you're supremely shutter priority
to last for years

Premium Member Canon of the Bible 11022011

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 Old Testament

The other 27 books 
Were written after the time of Christ
Called the books of the
New Testament
Form:

El Gran Canon

She is not
lonely
But makes all
who smile upon her
— lonely indeed

She is not
mournful
But makes all 
who implore her
— cry like a child

She is not
boastful
But makes all
who look upon her
— beat on their chests

She is not
faithful
But makes all
who desire her
— pledge from the heart

She is not
vengeful
But to ever 
betray her
— the gravest of sins

She is not
quiet
But from the depths
of her emptiness
— silence is born


(Dreamsleep: October, 2025)

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