To live fully
Is to savor innuendo
Reminiscent aroma
Recognize faint suggestion
Perhaps
Hope for yes
And
Threat of no
And
Reality underscored.
To live fully
Is more
Than the obvious
Of the mundane
Or
Hyperbole of peak experience.
It is the osmotic shadow
Between
The harsh
The soft,
The light
The dark,
The heart
The body.
It is the all
Of
The soul,
Undiminished by desire or fear.
It is inhaling
And Exhaling
And
Knowing the difference
Between the necessity
Of one
To
The other.
June 1984
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Reviewed by Kevin Mc Crum (Reader)
Reviewed on June 25, 2004
Kate,
I have been here before and always enjoy reading your Mother's work. I would like to have known her. I have no doubt that the world lost a true champion when seh went! Thank you for sharing this!
This is a book of free verse poetry that addresses the seven main tests in life and offers some sensible solutions to passing those tests with minimal discomfort.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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I have been here before and always enjoy reading your Mother's work. I would like to have known her. I have no doubt that the world lost a true champion when seh went! Thank you for sharing this!