EdCan71

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EdCan71
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Born in 1971 and raised in the Bronx, NY... I headed west in 1996 to survey the land of Fante and Bukowski. I currently reside in a small room by the freeway in North Hollywood. The first poem to truly open my eyes and touch my soul was "The Tragedy of the Leaves" by Charles Bukowski. I have been reading and writing poetry ever since that fateful day. https://edcan71.wordpress.com/

  May 2015     8 years ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

angel city blues

awakened
as the rain subsided

the day
not quite
the day yet

the fog of forgetting
still heavy in the air

she once was in love
and filled the empty space beside me

now,
there are mornings
like...

– by Edward L. Canavan

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somewhere still


caressing
the outside
edges

drawn
to the darkness
of being

there are places in the mind
for the heart to stand alone

and be right with it
and be silent

to find
the deeper shade
of...

– by Edward L. Canavan

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when

empty cave
echoes my silence

my heart
stares holes
thru white...

– by Edward L. Canavan

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the tragedy of the leaves

I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead,
the potted plants yellow as corn;
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled corpses
surrounded me with their uselessness;
the sun was still good, though,
and my landlady's note cracked in...

– by Charles Bukowski

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