Captian's Log Short Poem: All Alone 20 Jul 2019 So, funny story, my car broke down on the side of the road. I, in turn, cannot make it home to write a regular post. As such, we'll all have…
Captian's Log Poem: Want (A Riddle) 28 May 201927 May 2019 Please read: Want Excerpt: But Death, in blackened cowl then spoke: This time I’ll let thee fly and live, yet only with this dreaded yoke; from hunger saved this deal I’ll give: [continue]
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…