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    Dialectic
    Dialectic
    Dialectic
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    Dialectic

    By Sam R Geraghty

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    Dialectic is a beautifully crafted poetical journey which narrates the path through the double-edged nature of all enquiry and spiritual path-hood. It incorporates the musings, meditations, doubts, insights, odes and adorations of the poet through the valleys of life, death and rebirth presented in five themes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVeneficia Publications
    Release dateNov 17, 2020
    ISBN9781914071119
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      Dialectic - Sam R Geraghty

      DIALECTIC

      BY

      SAM R GERAGHTY

      All rights reserved, no part of this publication may be either reproduced or transmitted by any means whatsoever without the prior permission of the publisher.
      VENEFICIA PUBLICATIONS UK
      Editing & Typesetting © Veneficia Publications UK
      September 2019
      Cover image © Gavyn Dylan Sodo
      Facebook/BlackInkVoid

      CONTENTS

      DOUBT ... 1

      INTRO ... 2

      TRICK OF THE LIGHT ...3

      SON OF MARY ... 4

      KNIGHT ... 5

      MASK ... 6

      MITHRIDATES VI ... 7

      RUMINATION ... 9

      INTRO ... 10

      ROAD TO URUK ... 11

      BREATHE ... 13

      SHADOW ... 14

      IMMOLATION ... 15

      THE VESSEL ... 16

      REVELATION ... 17

      INTRO ... 18

      REVELATION ... 19

      DESCENT ... 20

      MONOLITH ... 23

      EPITAPH ... 25

      LIQUID ... 26

      IMMORTAL ... 27

      ECSTASY ... 28

      INTRO ... 29

      EVE ... 30

      AMOR ... 31

      BELTAIN ... 32

      DEATH OF ADONIS ... 33

      INCITER ... 34

      MAENAD ... 35

      SUCCUBUS ... 36

      ADORATION ... 37

      INTRO ... 38

      SONG-FATHER ... 39

      APHRODITE ... 40

      TO ORPHEUS ... 42

      PERSEPHONE ... 43

      THE HAG OF LOCH BA ... 44

      CIRCE ... 45

      DREAM ... 47

      INTRODUCTION

      Poetry is a lost Art.

      We live in a world where everything must be cut into bite sized pieces for people to ingest, for people to find palatable.

      Everything is go, go, go in this technological world where information that cannot fit onto a meme is simply discarded and not absorbed by the vast majority of people.

      This translates over to the writing

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