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A Reflection for Remembrance Day – Three Poets – Owen, Crozier and Amichai

November 11, 2017 – 10:05 am

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young So Abram rose, and clave the wood and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both of them together, Isac the first born spake and said, My Father, Behold the preparations, fire and iron, But where the lamb for […]

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Acceptance or Anger – Poetry and Remembrance Day

November 11, 2014 – 8:15 pm

Prayer Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that. Galway Kinnell (1927 – 2014) This small poem may  be  the bravest, if not most reckless, poem I have read. I discovered it about seven years ago during the unexpected end of my second marriage. I resisted it. I resisted […]

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