It's when we love deeply that we get a taste of a realm and a reality that transcends earthly existence.

Geography used to deal with things that have been dependable and solid for thousands of millions of years, the mapping of the certainties of earthly existence.

That could probably sum up my earthly existence.

Turning 65 has long been one of life's watersheds, marking the end of work, the beginning of retirement and the last chapter of earthly existence.

Here the poet paints a grim portrait of our earthly existence: sombre nights, tears, smoke, thorns and mud.