Captian's Log Poem: Here Lies. . . 13 May 2019 Please read: Here Lies. . . I dreamed last night of pleasure. How bleak, it seems, that only in my dreams I pleasure seek, desire good, and long for you. I…
Captian's Log Echoes in the Night 9 May 2019 The chains dragged his feeble flesh to the floor, their unseen lengths fading into the dark nothingness from which they’d sprung. Yet he struggled under the weight, and the chains…
Captian's Log The Broken Heart 1 May 2019 I hold the velvet handkerchief; its crumpled form is barely felt against my hardened skin. Memories soon replay themselves, and I crush the white memento in the coils of my…
Captian's Log Poem: Hopeless Heart 23 Apr 2019 Please read: Hopeless Heart Excerpt: I hope no more for coming things, .of houses, lands and soil, nor praise that which my heart oft sings; ..no passions in me boil. Instead…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Rekindled 4 Apr 2019 When darkness overshadows all, how wonderful to light a match, magnificent to stoke a flame, and joy to see a candle’s glow. When hope cannot be found at all, how…
Captian's Log Short Poem: In the Darkness are Chains 30 Mar 201930 Mar 2019 In the darkness are chains, and in the shadows bondage. Sweetness and light are freedom; bitterness and death enslave. In this pit I cannot hope. We clasp our chains tenderly;…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Want 12 Mar 2019 A banquet cannot sate, nor feast abate, my hunger. From cups overflowing, wine outpouring, still I thirst. Nothing can satisfy, be low or high, timeless want. These verses round a…
Captian's Log Can’t Keep a Good Lion Down 3 Mar 20193 Mar 2019 In the seminal interaction between the faun and Lucy as we are first introduced into the world of Narnia, Lucy forgives Tumnus, and forgives him for a great betrayal. It…
Captian's Log By Myself 26 Feb 2019 _____In a brief moment of sanity, which passing left me hollow, left me alone, I saw the logic of my life led out into the darkness of time where I…
Captian's Log Isle of Despair 12 Feb 2019 In a bottle was found this scrawled letter, though it was recovered far inland: She was beautiful, and so far from me. Like a distant ship out to sea when…