EDWARD L. CANAVAN - POEMS

Edward L. Canavan is an American poet whose work has most recently been published in Cholla Needles, Necro, and the Citly Limits anthology "Poems of Political Protest".
 His second poetry collection entitled "Protest and Isolation" was recently released by Cyberwit Press.
Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, he currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and listens to The Clash.

staring back
​

​eyes closed
the sunset still
shines thru
 
here in the wilds of the mind
the words tame the beasts
 
while everything else
has its way.
*
 

lasting light
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​down behind the mountains
and across the seas of time
to darker places of need
 
to bring forth anew
the break of chance
to other hearts
 
half a world away.
*
 

groundlessness
​

​solidity penetrated
myths of stone overturned
 
inquiry evidenced as not the end
but the means to it
 
let go the conundrums
that grasp and cling
 
ease the pain
by letting pain be
 
nothing lasts
no light
no darkness
 
be still
at both rest
and motion
 
in the spaciousness
of eternity.
*
 
 

a ghost in the canyon
​

​the passing storm
holds a memory of you
 
something in the rain
stirs the heart
 
bringing back the winter
of our brief endeavor
 
whatever there was
whatever could have been
 
lost in the hollows of my longing
 
rose-color
now removed
in hindsight
 
but there’s still a flower
in the back of my mind
that will always bear your name.
*
 
 

it’s ok
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the night full of storm
and song
 
the mind adrift
in dirty waters
 
pulled back
again and again
 
from shadows of sadness
cast in candlelight
 
as the heart murmurs
its bearable pounding
 
beneath the weight
of all that is yet to come.
*
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