Into the Canal

By Paul Cady

This is a collection of both prose and structured poetry. It contains some works that I composed many years ago and some that are very recent.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312809703

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Into the Canal

My Rose

The colors fan flawlessly as they embrace the sun

and they waver softly on the breeze.

The delicate petals are so frail against the world.

Their splendor pans helplessly as they engage the blunt

and the hateful scoffing of the mean.

The delicate petals are so frail against the world.

2014

Liberties

Wandering across boundaries

set by others,

broken by me

I have engendered

more than the dreams

of the lost.

Bantering against bounded

pet’s tied tethers--

hopeless, blind, weak,

my cast engages

forms that the weak

loved then tossed.

2014

Generations

The sounds repeat…

The groaning and screaming

At the beginning

foreshadow the moaning

that accompanies the end.

The sounds repeat…

The hoping and dreaming

flash their deceiving

forebodings. Then meaning

taps the sleeping

and accomplishes their end.

2014

Passing Affairs

I will love you a moment

with my eyes.

It’s less painful.

My fingers will be ghosts

over your skin.

It’s all that’s allowed.

I will love you