He is also the author of five collections of poems and four books of essays. Including, The Good Funeral - Death, Grief & The Community of Care, co-authored with theologian, Dr. Thomas G. Long. Lynch's work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and ...
That poem was included in my mother’s precious 1929 edition of “One Hundred and One Famous Poems,” so I must have heard it read aloud many times in my youth. Its words had been buried in my subconscious for decades only to emerge just last week. Well, darn. I was hoping that ...
Most typical funerals are at a cemetery of a church, which leads to the question: How do different religions deal with death? A well known piece of art is Jesus nailed to a cross, only to return to the mortal world, alive and well. This prompts the final question, is it possible to...
I think this is a piece of prose as opposed to a prose poem, partly because it is left-hand justified, and as far as I know, prose poems are justified both sides, but also because it does indeed read like notes in a journal, intended for shaping into poems later. Phrases like “...
They survey found the majority of men (74%) were touched emotionally to cry most often by the death of someone close to them. However when questioned about this in detail it was found men most often shed those tears of grief in private, rather than at funerals. The other primary tear-tr...
through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life ...
So now we wait. Wait for some bloke to upload an English scene from my favorite film, inspired by the poems of Rilke, where angels seemed to dwell. A beautiful drifty sad trapeze artist who lives in a trailer and dances by herself to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Hapless but knowing ...
I’m not very knowledgeable about poetry, but the poems I like best are like this one — sweet and simple, but also poignant. After all, we are indeed on our way to returning to dust; our bodies and all our stuff will be mere dust. Shouldn’t we be thankful for the blessings of ...