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The SCP has just learned of the passing of Canadian Member poet Lionel Willis on December 28, 2023. He had been contributing his work since 2021, starting after his wife passed away in 2020. He is survived by his two sons and three grandchildren. The SCP sends its condolences to his family.
Read Lionel’s poetry published by the SCP HERE. Some of his poems are also featured in Journals X and XI.
Read more about Lionel’s life on Legacy.com HERE.
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Slender pillar burning bright, remarkably distinguished. I wish that you could stay the night but you must be extinguished....
Riddle No. 1 So astounding is this part— A major muscle, like your heart. And so astonishing its job, Without...
Thank you, ma’am! I often feel we are so focused on getting out of the valley and pushing toward the…
What an interesting observation! Coincidence? I think not.
Thanks Margaret. That poem is actually not about motorcyclists, but it could have been.
Keister and bootie I knew even though I am in Texas. I had to look up steatopygian, cheiromantic, and prelapsarian.…
i had stuck in my head a monte python scene where the knights go around saying Ni! so i picked…
My condolences to the family.
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such words..
That’s really unfortunate.
I am so sorry to hear this. I only knew Lionel briefly through his poetry and comments – both are valuable to me. Lionel has left a shining legacy of linguistic wonder for his family and friends to indulge in and for the words he shared here, I am most grateful.
Memory eternal.
Sorry to learn of this. Rest in Peace and Poetry, Lionel.
Memory eternal.
Eternal rest grant unto him “in the long sleep beyond reach of civility and art,” to quote himself.
I have looked for copies of Lionel Willis’s books in vain and was sorry to learn of his death. May he rest in peace.