From Life to Death
/Usually a young person has a…
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At twelve, she was the picture of health.
Her rosy cheeks and clear complexion …
By Debby Hackbarth
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The Final Shadow
/Its name is taboo
we do not utter it
for fear that speaking of Death
may bring it…
By Shih-Fang Wang
Read MoreGiant illusion
/Fear, doubts, the long years and motions
morphed into a giant illusion
of an end that would never come
and of tides that would …
By Benjamin Nambu
Read MoreThe Time Was Right
/A variation on Dylan Thomas…
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He’ll rage against the dying of my light
but old age took its toll along the way.
He doesn’t know I think the …
By Ken Gosse
Read MoreRequiem For Grief
/Most people are uncomfortable…
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… taken too soon. So young and so much life left to live.
But God knows so much more than we do; and His …
By Linda Troxell
Read MoreAltering Our Attention
/Death will come soon …
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Why do we dwell on death?
Should we not concentrate on life?
Loss is part of our everyday …
By Debby Hackbarth
Read MoreFound in the Wreckage
/One ticket, last red-eye.
“I'll take what she's drinking,”
I say of the redhead ahead.
Glass in hand…
By Andy Cooper
Read MoreNever a Blank Slate
/Children are created with…
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Children are not blank slates.
Their chromosomes are half from each mate.
When they form in their mothers…
By Debby Hackbarth
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