Captian's Log Reflections on the Book of Haggai 28 Feb 202128 Feb 2021 Settings There are three main messages in the book of Haggai, and therefore three slightly different settings into which these messages are delivered. All are given in the second year…
Captian's Log Reflections on the Book of Habakkuk 27 Feb 20211 Mar 2021 The book of Habakkuk starts strangely; it starts with a question: "How long?" The prophet agonizes. The questions seem all too familiar in our secular age: God does not listen,…
Captian's Log Monster Poem: Ghoul Caught 26 Feb 202125 Feb 2021 Below, the dad, his son, and his boy's son,all three among the dead—one with a gun—and all was dark, and filled with baby's cries,and rage, and fear, and blindness of…
Captian's Log Poem: Ghoulish Epilogue 25 Feb 202125 Feb 2021 What dread and foul a thing it is to die,forever in the bitter dust to lie,what sad and lonely place to be interred,in silence lost, to speak no further word,for…
Captian's Log Poem: Ghoul’s Crypt 24 Feb 2021 Over the mossened stones came weeping calls;from out that rotting church of crumbling wallsthe baby's voice, with loudest shrieking wails—O how this sickened heart within me fails—broke through the silence…
Captian's Log Poem: Ghoul’s Haunting 23 Feb 2021 The Mother The weary morning, like a beaten slavewho has no other hope besides the grave,begrudgingly passed on from dawn to day,bearing the summer's foul, baroque display:'twas here a patch…
Captian's Log Poem: Ghoul’s Curse 22 Feb 2021 What dread and foul a thing it is to die,to gasp then choke, to loose a final sigh,to lay there helpless as they leave the room—by kin abandoned to eternal…
Captian's Log Poem: Ghoul’s Course 21 Feb 2021 A shadow raced across the lonely lawn,cast in the rising of an early dawn,the sight of which was like to me an Hell,for I knew what dread things such sights…
Captian's Log Drabble: Black Covenant 20 Feb 2021 He made a covenant, with what I do not know, and he would keep his terrible oath: He would spill blood every day of his life. There may be something…
Captian's Log Drabble: Interminable Interim 19 Feb 2021 The lights go out, and I'm in darkness. Silence invades my core as I lay upon my bed, too hot with the covers on, too exposed without them. My thoughts…
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