Paul McCann

Path Of Peace
By Paul Mc Cann
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After a war a soldier sometimes has to cry as dreams of those memories waters in the eye.

It's very sad when this world of ours goes to war.
Peace is the thing that soldiers have fought and died for.
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The Tanka Structure


A short poem that uses syllables in it's structure similar to the Haiku.
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River Roads Of Peace
By Paul Mc Cann
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I can still see my mother squatting down by the fireplace ,
Putting some sticks over scrunched up newspaper .

She struck a match and lit the paper as smoke arose.
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He worked so hard all his life,
to pay the bills and provide.

Somehow through the thick and thin,
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Pre-Phrase (Paul McCann)

This is a structure of poetry I created that has one phrase or line repeating as an answer to the previous line of the poem. The phrase will then become the totle of the poem.
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A Hard Call
By Paul McCann
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If a castle I could make, of a kingdom in a lake I’d be King in my underwater world.

To rule in my own pool, from a throne would be so cool, I could even make the water round me swirl.
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Non-verbal things said, can be misread, time and time again.
A word left out, can place a doubt and facts are lost in vain.

Some bad reports end up out of sorts like some patients do.
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Don't Steal My Heart Away
By Paul McCann
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In need of time out and a holiday beside the sea
Like a slave I’d been working every hour asked of me.
Seven days a week and it was six months without a break.
All over my body I had just this one entire ache .
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Dad lifted the collection plate
Each week at Sunday mass,
Then afterwards he and I
walked the streets around Belfast.
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My father carried me when I was small and meek.
He held me in his arms where I could hear him speak.
I know what he said, though I could not understand,
What life was all about and what for me was planned.
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From cyberspace it came without warning,
Delivering pre-programmed downloads all over the planet.

Into every port they slipped in undetected,
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Tai Chi on the beach.
As I gently reach.
My hands to the sky,
I see with my eye,
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After the war was over, I returned to Australia and wed,
with severance pay as a kick start we looked at getting ahead.
We checked out this land in the country then borrowed to build our
dream.
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Mirror Loop Structure
This is a style I created myself.

The structure of this poem is written so that the poem can be read from the beginning to end and then back again from it’s end to the beginning.
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Surrounded By A Street Breed (It's A Dogs Life)
By Paul Mc Cann
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Follow Your Feelings

By Paul McCann
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