Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Still Be Still Be Still Be” by Harry Posner, part of the 2019 Poem in Your Pocket Day collection

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Still Be Still Be Still Be

By Harry Posner

Still be still be still be

Calm or calm or calm or

Pla cid oh pla cid oh pla cid oh

Re lax re lax re lax re

Ding for pleasure

Ding for dinner

Ring for treasure

The pleasure of your

Company your tympani

Your thrum drum not

Hum drum you’re some fun

You are we are when we are

To gather our each our sweet

Peach the reach of fresh flesh

Enmeshed arms legs held

Melded melted to gather

in the cool pool so still

be still be still be still

my beat ing heart

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Copyright © Harry Posner

Previously published in Clover & White (2019).

Harry Posner is the author of six books, including poetry, novels and short stories, and he has produced several spoken word CDs. He is a member of Words Aloud poetry collective, the Headwaters Writers Guild, Writers Ink Alton, and an Associate Member of the League of Canadian Poets. Posner is currently Dufferin County’s first Poet Laureate.

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