Author: Rogan Wolf
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Fable 3 – Opening to the Stranger
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This is the third installment of “Fables and Reflections” Fable Three is called “Opening to the Stranger.” It explores our relationship with the unfamiliar or unusual, with whatever seems new or strange. The first and second installments (see earlier posts below) provided links to an Introduction, Fable One, Fable Two and Anchorite poems. Each piece takes…
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Fable 2 – Dame Marjorie’s Dream
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This is the second installment of “Fables and Reflections” It consists of Fable Two and Anchorite poems. The first installment (below) provided links to an Introduction and Fable One. Each piece takes just a few minutes to read. There are 16 in all and I shall post them here every three weeks or so. The series is, in…
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Where is the Church ? I don’t see it anywhere.
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The Anglican Church is having trouble deciding whether to introduce women bishops. Within the Church, there have been agitation, discussion and arguments over the move for ages. It is possible that, outside the Church, very few people would have any interest whatsoever, in either the arguments or in the development. By which I do not…
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Fables and Reflections – The Door which Strangely Opens
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I am uploading with this post the first installment of “Fables and Reflections,” a collection of short prose pieces which I wrote over a period of around three months in Greece. Future uploads will consist of just one Fable each. But this first post has two attachments, first the collection’s Introduction and second Fable One. Click…
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Was Lazarus such a lucky man ?
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Someone I knew well died this Spring. Her death (from breast cancer) came twenty years after she was first diagnosed. But almost until the end, she refused to accept that death was pending. In her bed at home, she acknowledged the truth only a few hours before she stopped breathing, thereby making honest communication with…
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The ground underfoot has a thin crust these days but we’re still talking
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On Saturday May 7th, I spoke at a conference at Warwick University. It was called “2nd International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine”. I gave a short power-point presentation and read a paper. Here is the power-point and here is the paper. This version of the latter is slightly longer than the one I actually read. I…