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Philip Hasouris

"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end." Stephan Hawking

Blow out the Moon is a view of the lives of a couple, sometimes uncoupled, and cruelly changed by an unwelcome brain injury. Philip Hasouris finds himself in an undeserved world living with an unsolicited and devastating change in the life he shared with Linda, his wife who sustained an anoxic brain injury. His poetry, while serving to make sense out of his own life and anguish, is a gift to those who are experiencing a similar path. The rest of us will stop and think.

Sandra J. Topalian, Ph.D., Manager, Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts

Mortal/Eden

You smile I dance

my heart beats to music

in the phoenix night

when we dance hip to hip.

You are the sun

I your moon

and now I weep

to the sound of empty.

I hold tomorrow in dream

spring, summer, fall,

my winters lamentation.

Still I sail your smile

from Eden to this now.

These stunningly beautiful poems are a testament to the difficult times that propel us into a growth that is also spiritual, to the fact that we can only learn to face life’s issues when we are thrust into them headlong and without warning. They are an important insight to the complexity of love and what so many of us will have to confront. If we love deeply and with all of our being. ...more

--Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Ph.D, author of 6 books of poetry and 11 books of nonfiction including , “the Path Through Grief,” and “Healing: A Life with Chronic Illness.”

--Philip Hasouris’ poetry is a testament to the triumph of never ending love and of the human spirit. These poems vividly speak to the voice within, of a love contained but yet not diminished. As the reader moves through fear, loss, isolation, pain and rage there is remains of an underlying eternal hope. ...more

--Dr. Carla Goodwin Ph.D Physiologist

Here is love that is unsentimental, unflinching, devoted, and determined. "My cheek burns, “where your palm would touch,” and we his readers feel that burning too. ...more

--Fred Marchant, author of Full Moon Boat and The Looking House

It is remarkable that he imparts feelings that evoke such loss and still celebrates the love that they share. For those of us who are fortunate to love and be loved, these poems will serve to magnify it; for those who aren’t, they provide a love to strive for. ...more

--Tom Hall: Director of Special Services Neuro Rehabilitation Center Middleboro Ma.

If there is hope in this seemingly hopeless situation, it is that a human being can be resilient enough in the face of such deprivation to articulate and to enunciate painful yet moving hesitations, lamentations, and jubilations. They people this poet’s passionate and present attachment to the woman who has become but a whisper of her former self. ...more

Tom Daley: Faculty member, Online School of Poetry

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