Captian's Log You’re Dead 21 Jan 202520 Jan 2025 "If you were dead, would you want to know?" I ask. The waitress had just taken our orders and menus from us, and my friend was sipping his lager while…
Captian's Log Excelsior 20 Jan 2025 We now have a president. It's strange to say. There is hope again for our country. God Kept Trump alive by a miracle; I pray this will be a new…
Captian's Log My Plea 19 Jan 202518 Jan 2025 There lies beyond this narrow breadth of suffering, if you can lay it down, a living offering, a happiness above all that you lost;so count, dear friend, and understand the…
Captian's Log Dreams Last Night 18 Jan 2025 I dreamed of my dead dog, wondering how she would like these new treats we were cooking up. She gobbled one out of my hand before I knew and devoured…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 17 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 You make me shiver. It is as though you have peered into my thoughts, for I saw the gods, gods of Egypt and Greece and the monsters of far distant…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 16 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 The punishment of the dead is his main theme here. He thinks they thought that justice compelled them to take almost the opposite position of the ancient Egyptians. Only the…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 15 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 "…be it not forgotten, then, that the best authorities," whom he never cites, "hold that the buried figures of their gods support the thesis that some sort of chthonic cult…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 What are dreams? I am no child. Dreams come and go. I do not hold onto them. But I too have been robbed of sleep this night and hoped for…
Captian's Log Dreams and Dreamers 13 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Strange dreams have assaulted me this night. I fought with beasts of darkness and thunder whose evil laughter haunts me now. Their unseen faces hid some knowing smirk. I fended…
Captian's Log And Make the Rhythm Mad 12 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/and-make-the-rhythm-mad/