Ghosts, Flames & Ashes: Poems About Life And Death

This collection of 33 poems echoes into that space between the twin poles of life and death. It also offers a reflection on those lived moments and experiences, such as loneliness, that can feel like death in the midst of our day to day living. Jacques Derrida, in his book "The Gift of Death," states that... "Philosophy isn't something that comes to the soul by accident, for it is nothing other than this vigil over death that watches out for death and watches over death, as if over the very life of the soul. The psyche as life, as breath of life, as pneuma, only appears out of this concerned anticipation of dying." It's quite possible that we are the only beings who are intimately aware of their own mortality, of the certainty that we will, in fact, die one day. And this truth and our awareness of it really is a gift, as Mark Manson shares in his The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: "Without acknowledging the ever-present gaze of death, the superficial will appear important, and the important will appear superficial."

Author: Michael R. Guerin

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Nov 01, 2016

Number of Pages: 72 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1539423379

ISBN-13: 9781539423379