First Time Death Is Still an Amateur

Sometimes Philosophical Sometimes Humorous But Always Self-Deprecating Charming And Candid Ed Moroney’S Poems Comfortably Serve Up To Us All Manner Of Questions About Life So We Can Indulge In A Series Of Delightfully Meditational Meals For Our Minds. He Writes Thoughtfully About Love The Afterlife God Nature Romance Religion And Death And He Writes With A Witty And Often Whimsical Style That Makes Us Want To Consider These Subjects No Matter How Weighty They Can Otherwise Seem. He Ruminates Often On The Meaning Of Religion And The Actuality Of God:This God Thing Is All Quite Confusingwhich I’M Sure He Finds Amusing.He Speculates On What Life Would Have Been Like For Him If He’D Been Endowed With Other Abilities Than Those He Has:Talent Would’Ve Been Niceas A God Given Deviceto Instill Some Ambitionlimited To This Edition.And He Wonders What His Offspring Will Think Of His Collection Of Verse: For Progeny On Boring Winter Daysto Muse Of Verse And Wonder What It Meant.A Traditionalist In Form Ed’S Verse Is Rhymed And Metrical At Times Blank Verse But His Tone Is Familiar And His Vocabulary Is Friendly And Casual. His Approach To His Subjects Is Of Course As The Above Lines Show Uniquely Individual. His Thoughtful Poems Show Us He Was Always Paying Attention To Life And To Death And Hoping Like All Of Us To Arrive At Least At An Acceptance If Not A Complete Understanding Of It.