Warrior Soul
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Eileen McManus
Eileen McManus lives and works in the Bronx, New York. As well as being a metal health consumer/survivor, she has worked as a professional counselor. Her main love is writing. She shares a house with her cat, Snowball and her family.
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Warrior Soul - Eileen McManus
Copyright © 2012 by Eileen McManus.
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CONTENTS
Battle Cheer
1987
THe Cliff of Eternity
In Memory of Flight
GRIEF
LADIES IN WAITING
NO MAN’S LAND
SEASONS
NIGHT LIGHTS
HOURGLASS
DESERT CHILDREN
FISHING
ON THE INDIAN BURIAL GROUND
BORN IN THE USA
BALLADS OF THE LADY
TO HELEN, MY COUSIN
RUMINATIONS
IN A STILL MOMENT
WINTER LULLABY
THE WAKE UP YEARS
THE CASTLE
To Jerry
FOR TED
A WOMAN WALKING THE
LINE OF TIME
UNTITLED
On A Winter Afternoon
THE GARGOYLE
A RANT OF RHYME
THE HEREAFTER
DREAMING IN A WAKING STATE
WARRIOR SOUL
Night In Little Italy
WOVEN WINGS AND WONDERINGS
Winter, 1996
RETREAT INTO ISOLATION
SQUARE GOLDEN HALO
NORWOOD AT DUSK
THE PITCHER
ONE JANUARY EVENING
WHEN BLOOM CROCUS
The Counseling Years
THE FAT LADY
FlOWER MAKER
Heat Wave
WOOING THE MUSE
THE BREAKFAST BALL
KEYCHAIN FOR A BLUE PLYMOUTH
TRAVELING HOME FROM MANHATTAN
MARNIE
SLEEP BROKEN BY AN APRIL STORM
The Millennium
SWAN SONG FOR MARIO
TO CHRIS
ODE TO MOTHERHOOD
Winter 2012
To Maria Regina Pax, and my father
Battle Cheer
Oh, how frightened you are, to bring together a manuscript, to contact an agent, to begin to bring to fruition the long-ago plan.
Let the games begin!
Play then, and play your best. Play well, play deadly and play brilliant.
Play as God plays his sunsets—with no apologies, with flambuoyant and shameless pride, with piercing beauty and sheer pleasure in the playing.
Play to kill, and let no emotional enemy go undestroyed.
Play for victory, and know that failure is not an option.
The streets of New York were desolate in the early nineteen eighties. I had left in 1977 with a roaring crowd of Bronx Science graduates, all jubilantly pursuing success and fortune in many, varied, and often prestigious and elite colleges and universities.
It might have been a chance word or a particularly disturbing conversation which might have seemed innocuous, but after a year in Pennsylvania at Franklin and Marshall College, something unsettling began to happen. It started with bad and frightening dreams, and then anxiety and panic began to boil and bubble in my center, making relationships and study difficult. Rather than wait around to see what explosion might erupt, I packed up and returned home, to a town that had drastically changed. It was bereft of middle class society, broken, ravaged, and on the verge of bankruptcy.
I faced the choice of dropping out of