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 Poem: Happiness 22 Mar 201922 Mar 2019 I told myself to write a hopeful song, and seconding, I found my heart did long to cast away my dreary garb and wash myself of this despair—did long to…
Captian's Log The Flood 19 Oct 201819 Oct 2018 Let’s get depressed. You will die. Unavoidable. Unless you’re one in a million, you will have such little impact upon the rest of humanity that nothing you do will affect…
Captian's Log Poem: One Green Leaf 13 Sep 2018 Check out: One Green Leaf Excerpt: Remember when the sun reached down, and thus in heavenly light was crowned a withered tree in radiant beam. So it all happened in…
Captian's Log God Bless Me 21 Jul 2018 I am afraid. I lie in bed petrified. I don’t want to get up, just sleep. I want to sleep forever. On my nightstand is yesterday’s mail. No, it’s older:…
Captian's Log Sonnet: New Life 9 Jul 2018 Please read: New Life excerpt: As like that tree humbly without Spring’s joy, without green leaf—no budding fruit is found—; as like that tree whose brittle limbs no boy should climb—a…
Captian's Log Poem: Death Stalked 22 Apr 2018 Here is something of an unfinished thought I've explored in troubled verse. Death, in his black outfit stalked me: Whispering softly a song, following all summer long, Th’specter tonight has…
Captian's Log E.R. 12 Feb 201812 Feb 2018 So, this post will be a bit offbeat as I write it from within an E. R. waiting room. Don't worry: I have no reason to believe this to be…
Captian's Log Sonnet: Darkest Hope 30 Jan 2018 Please read: Darkest Hope In darkness bound, he wanders solemnly, and seeks to find some rest and hope this night. Continue reading. . .
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