Tag: reincarnation

WHEN IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

MICHAEL WALSH POET AND AWARD-WINNING WRITER There are two things certain in life so it is said; death and taxes. To this might be added regrets and who better to ask what these misgivings might be than the brave nurses in palliative care. What are deathbed laments of […]

The Phone Call in a Million that saved a Life

We sat at home with my husband, reading when my mobile sounded an incoming call from an unknown number. I’m taking a drink, and picking up my mobile I hear an unfamiliar voice. I can hear what some old grandmother is saying. ‘Help, I’m locked up here, no food, nothing to drink, I’m dying!’ The phone then went dead.

ARE MARRIAGES MADE IN HEAVEN

Michael Walsh’s poem, The Garden Bower, evoked a story from a North American reader who writes: I have had these conversations since the last ten years with my husband Bert, who died so tragically. His soul left his body in 2009 when he signalled me by illuminating my office with the most radiant warm glow. When I looked outside there was a beautiful red cardinal bird sitting on the giant spruce tree in my back garden.