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Hermes Helps Out

Hermes Helps Out This collection of poetry, Persephone’s Echo, is about the echoes of the past in both mythology and my personal life. This collection combines the Jungian archetype with Sylvia Plath like confession. It also combines the personal with … Continue reading

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Dia De Los Muertos

November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday.  In the Aztec … Continue reading

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Dracula: The Vampire and The Critics

Dracula: The Vampire and Critics Edited by Margaret L Carter, 1988 Themes of Racial Purity and the Terror over Race are in Dracula. There is the subtext Darwinian struggle of Global Politics in Dracula.  Britain had imperial opposition during Stoker’s … Continue reading

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Ab Aeterno

March 24, 2010 From Eternity In “Ab Aeterno” Richard is chained to the Black Rock Ship. A corrupt priest offered him no absolution, but instead sold him as a slave to Alvar Hanso, who owns The Black Rock. In a … Continue reading

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Dancing in The Flames

Dancing In the Flames   Dancing in the Flames: the Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson came out in 1996.  It asks who is the Goddess?  It is Eve, Lilith, Madonna or Mother … Continue reading

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Dark Nights Of The Soul

Dark Night of the Soul The Dark Night of the Soul by Thomas Moore came out in 2004.  It is based upon the ideas of St John of the Cross who was a Spanish Mystic and Poet.  His approach, as … Continue reading

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Radiant Darkness

March 26, 2009 Radiant Darkness “Gleaming in the dark/I’m as light as air/floating there breathlessly/when the dream dissolves…” Nina Gordon sings in her 2001 solo song “Tonight and the Rest of My Life.”  It embodies the idea of Radiant Darkness … Continue reading

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