With Death, Love Does Not Die…
POETRY FORMAT, 13 Aug 2012
David Inkey – TRANSCEND Media Service
With death, love does not die,
we cry tears of deep grief for our own relief,
memory is a bridge cresting on a special ridge,
with death, love does not die…
in each life sentence,
let us find time for repentance…
sorrow we need not borrow,
each other’s joy we may employ,
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Dr. Noel David Burleson is an international civil servant focusing on peace, ecology, girls education, water, population and development. As retired UNESCO advisor to UNICEF, he writes with his duonym “david inkey”. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in Social Relations/Social Anthropology, he served as a consultant on family planning and population issues to the International Labor Organization, World Health Organization, and the Food and Agriculture Organization. He is the self-appointed president of Antarctica University and was three times named (by colleagues) the UN Philosopher. Until the UN finds time to name its own Poet Laureate, he assumes this role, as well.
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