{"id":4875,"date":"2020-12-06T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2020-12-06T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:22:33","slug":"death-took-the-poet-while-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/death-took-the-poet-while-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Took The Poet While Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sullivan The Poet&#8221; as Michael Sullivan referred to himself, was a writer I came across online well over a decade ago. I commented on and exchanged verses with him, and his opinion mattered as a writer of talent. Id lost contact with his work and only when remembering him and looking to see how he was doing now, I sadly found he passed away. Death comes to us all. He died as writers dream of, by the quill. He was found, in front of his computer, working on his verses. What tales he had yet to tell&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4876\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/index.php\/death-took-the-poet-while-writing\/the-late-michael-sullivan-aka-sullivan-the-poet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.celtichosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-late-Michael-Sullivan-aka-Sullivan-The-Poet.jpg\" alt=\"The late Michael Sullivan aka Sullivan The Poet\" width=\"448\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-late-Michael-Sullivan-aka-Sullivan-The-Poet.jpg 448w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-late-Michael-Sullivan-aka-Sullivan-The-Poet-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-late-Michael-Sullivan-aka-Sullivan-The-Poet-332x222.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Michael Sullivan aka Sullivan The Poet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Poetry will be the death of me&#8221;, many a writer jokes,<br \/>\nWho writes rhymes and verse for the enjoyment of other folks,<br \/>\nTo die while writing would for most writers be the ideal way to go&#8230;<br \/>\nThough we dont think of such much, or at least it we dont show,<br \/>\nWe meet other writers at events or online<br \/>\nOr on the printed page were we are captivated by a line<br \/>\nOr two that they have written, that with us strikes a chord<br \/>\nOf familiarity, of the brethern of the written word&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Such was he, Sullivan to me, a man Id never met,<br \/>\nBar online passing comments about words to print we had set&#8230;<br \/>\nIn time Id read other witers, lost contact with what he had written new<br \/>\nThough he was one of the rhymers who as a poet I held as true&#8230;<br \/>\nThen, all too often on remembering, I looked him up to how<br \/>\nHe is, and what is he writing of now,<br \/>\nOnly to find his last words written, death has come to take him away,<br \/>\nHis last words on the screen unfinished, what he had to in verse to say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sullivan The Poet&#8221; as Michael Sullivan referred to himself, was a writer I came across online well over a decade ago. I commented on and exchanged verses with him, and his opinion mattered as a writer of talent. Id lost contact with his work and only when remembering him and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[308,233],"tags":[4380,313,4382,4381],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-writers","tag-michael-sullivan","tag-obituary","tag-plymouth","tag-sullivan-the-poet","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1gD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5058,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-new-normal-looks-like-the-old-normal-as-scene-of-the-rhyme-returns-to-tullamore\/","url_meta":{"origin":4875,"position":0},"title":"The New Normal Looks like the Old Normal as Scene of the Rhyme returns to Tullamore","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"17th September 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The world is a different place than it was two short years ago. 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