Death by Plain Words: The Retelling. [Original writing]

Death by Plain Words: The Retelling is an introduction to and a presentation of my poetry. Much of my writing has been greatly inspired by Carl Jung's theory of the "collective unconscious," by my own background which includes my interest in history and in international travel, and by various writers, in particular T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats. My poems range the full gambit of these influences and, therefore, cover images and ideas that tend to be universal in spirit and temperament. A central theme which runs through many of these poems is the idea that the world is filled with opposites which sometimes are in conflict with each other. These poems are often a resolution of the confrontation through the realization that these opposing forces constitute an unified whole, that our existence is a combination of both, and that, in order to survive in a world which often appears to be contradictory to us, we must strive for the understanding and for the harmony which is at the core of our being.