For my final exam of the semester I had to write an extended description of what a “near death experience” is, similarities between research study participants, etc. In the textbook the course was using, a near death experience was described as “the distinctive state of recall associated with being brought back to life from the […]
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Poem: An Apology of a Kind
You didn’t call like you said you would, and I thought it wouldn’t bother me but it did. Time and again you said you loved me, that just thinking of me kept you from dying inside, for the world around you was already dead. And I loved you, too, yet it gave me a special […]
Poem: Wanderlust and Old Love
Wanderlust and Old Love It was just time for it and the feet had their way so I did it without a thought, and with a thousand new thoughts wandered away. I walked away just like that and I returned again walking, stopping just beside you at sunset. You didn’t move or even look my […]
Poem: The Birdman
A rocky beach, County Antrim by Kenneth Allen. (No changes were made to the image.) The Birdman Sea spray wets his lips where he plays in the coves at the base of the cliffs, curls his hair to a darker hue as he spills pale green stones from inattentive hands to lay in shallow pools, […]
Love: “Variations on a Theme”
Sometimes a poem always comes to me. One which has been a favorite since I first read it thirty years ago. A poem which always reminded me of myself even before I understand what it fully might mean, and after I’ve have frenetic times of passion, violence and love. The Lady of Shallott by Lord […]
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