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I am sixty-five years old and still involved in medical research and theory. My interest in medical research began while attending Stanford University in the early sixties. I was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder or as it was called then, manic-depressive

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Drinking: 14 of 172

Through the dim haze of tobacco smokea slick, wet, film on a polished glazed mahogony bar reflects brown velvet drapeswrapped with beige sash-top and bottom. The barman mixes ingenious potions withexotic nomenclatures: the band plays onfor captives who sit trapped by sultry,nuanced, melodic sounds of jazz comingfrom a well st... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Divorce: 8 of 93
Through burnt forgotten purgatory daysWe failed to fight for life with dignityFor we could disassemble all the graysTo shape our black and white realityWe tore contented memories apartFor reasons neither of us understandWe traveled back in search of our shared heartOnce there in vows and two gold wedding bandsWe have become ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Fairy tales: 11 of 122

Now let the children hear me tell the taleOf mystic land with magic wishing wellsIt lies beyond the heather-hill and daleWhere fair-haired fairies dance in wildwood dells. Elysian fields of yellow daisy smilesAre filled with joyous trills of whippoorwills.The red-tail fox can hop through fields for milesPast ponds of gree... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Words: 25 of 260

ladies of the nightare dressed in finest lacebut hide inside the shadowswhere they never leave a traceon barren - broken - bastard-streetsthe ladies have no facewith tarnished tassels in their hairthey stand obliquely sullen there~there's not a lot of pityin a filthy, dirty citywhere the waste is placed in tattersas the vagra... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Love sonnets: 4 of 41
LOVE: A thirst that seems to mesmerize the mind And linger for a lifetime though apart. But soon 'tis autumn's chilly winds you find, As memories replace the heated heart. Our youthful passions pleased in every way As we took joy from flesh and flesh alone. In growing older, lustful passions sway To find a more contented cau... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Enlightenment: 20 of 203

The builders brought the visionWith a brilliance in designTheir courage of decisionCrossed the angry blow of brine. In search of new salvationFilled with passion for Thou Ary;They captured sweet elationWhen restraints were torn apart. As engineer's electrifiedThin etchings drawn in ink,The architects conceptualisedArtistic... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Drug addiction: 30 of 303

-I am the man who has a planTo fill your life with ecstasy.My little pills will give you thrillsAnd rid you of complexity.Some fan the flame that I'm to blameFor all the service I provide.But I supply and seed the need,I don't create your suicide.Like all good things that commerce brings,I merely claim my right of trade.I giv... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Art: 7 of 69

No praise to raise for proffered proseWithout a theme within that grows,Like blossoms bloom in early springCreate the beauty words should bring.Your words can paint a picture pureAs sunlight will the chill wind cure.Like lilac sweet on scented breezesuch words profound are bound to pleaseThe soothing sound of simple script,Wi... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Problems in America: 6 of 58

America! Come home. You, who personify's beauty in her liberty, beware! A virus rides the ripples of the riddled breeze you breathe. A youthful breeze can weave a subtle strand of danger round your pride till wound around your purpose and you choke. Rattle with a rigor the renewal of your heart! Your clothes are ragged-tatte... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: To my father: 3 of 29

I never saw my father cryor if I did I did deny;but oh I know he suffered sofrom shame within that seemed to grow.Eight years in school, forced out the door,by poverty and then by warin which he fought with hero's pride,two brothers fighting by his side.Heroic deeds he did achieveand for those deeds he did receivecommission t... More..