A Poets Arduous Journey of Love and Lament Verse by Verse. A poets arduous journey of love and lament, verse by verse. Please read this books content, and discover life at its best and its worst. There are many defining moments in life. The moment which defines my life is when I rang the bell at Penn Medicine, in Philadelphia, which put an exclamation point to the last of my 30 radiation treatments for cancer of the larynx. Because of my wife, our four children, seven grandchildren and dear friends, I have survived the darkest days in my life. I can never thank them enough. On the field called life, its not about watching from the