Utterly poetic. The poetry was a gift that he loved to give others. I remember when he was launching The Days of Surprise in 2015, there was an event at the Pavilion in Dún Laoghaire.

asks Linda Ellis' poem "The Dash," which was read at former Kansas U.S. Sen. Bob Dole's funeral Friday. Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning at age 98.

He was the one who used to make me wear clothes. He had borrowed his friend's scooter and took me to recite my first poem. It was his encouragement that made me who I am.

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As the poem ends, on an inconclusive em-dash, its thoughts cut short, its speaker drops utterly out of “knowing” into the unimaginable, timeless, silent mystery beyond. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain by ...

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Remember by Christina Rossetti Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me ...