ELOQUENTLY PUT...IN SUPPORT OF A FACT THAT APPLIES TO US ALL. NOW, HOW LONG OUR 'RIDE' HERE WILL BE...THAT INFORMATION IS NOT OURS TO KNOW BUT WHAT IS KNOWN IS... WE ALL HAVE A MANDATED SET TIME TO ARRIVE AND DEPART. AMEN. ENJOYED, THANKS FOR SHARING REGIS. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS
A sad, but lovely tribute to those you've loved and somehow lost over the years. I've been fortunate in that I'd not lost a single friend until recently when I lost two, one of them I'd known for 41 years. It's a different kind of grief, isn't it?
This aches out in a silky ribbon of names whose presence on the page, single-file, somehow felt like people important to me because they were people important to you. One long, pause for each name, each person standing alone together. I love “They were not here/For the long ride” — never read this way of saying that. And to top it off, that there are more…..just a stunningly romantic piece, Regis. Thank you ~~ djl
You have written the inevitability we all face for those of us who age well beyond the median and look back at what we've lost.
I am especially touched by the loss of your Sha’Tara, writing with such wisdom and philosophy that I miss after reading all the great philosophers from the first half of the 20th century, now long gone and not replaced. I want to read more; more will not be written, unfortunately.
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Rebecca
I am especially touched by the loss of your Sha’Tara, writing with such wisdom and philosophy that I miss after reading all the great philosophers from the first half of the 20th century, now long gone and not replaced. I want to read more; more will not be written, unfortunately.
Ron