Poetry by Edward L. Canavan

      Justin Kern CC 




[day and night]

the slow and steady sun
beats and burns away

clearing the brush
for the deluge

lurching into the darkened fray
of things gone wrong

searching for the right words
to make it beautiful again.

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[along the way]

too long
the scenery
gone by

the days
were the days
and nothing more

a slow, beaten march
toward the inevitable end

no trees
no sky
no sunlight

just the drowning out
the blindness

the truth never worth admission

until something was taken away
that i never thought i could live without…

and here i am

running beneath the blue
beside the greens and reds and pinks

and thru the shimmering gold
of everything i never noticed
was here.

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Edward L. Canavan is an American poet whose work has most recently been published in New Croton Review, Literary Heist. and The Collapse Press Anthology "Letters for the End Times". He has 2 poetry collections published by Cyberwit Press. Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, Edward currently resides in North Hollywood, California, where he practices Buddhism and is currently listening to Quicksand.
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