Captian's Log Softly, Now 23 Jun 2025 Softly, now; he'll hear a whisper or a sigh. Make your step as light as air; your breath as slow as time. Even a heartbeat, it's been said, can betray…
Captian's Log Come Let 22 Jun 202520 Jun 2025 Come away and sing with me, my love, come whisper now, our song.Come hide away, my little dove.To hold you near I long. Come and make your nest of peace…
Captian's Log Myth and Allegory 1 May 202528 Apr 2025 No, allegory is allegory, and myth is myth. A myth can be an allegory, but a myth is not, in the totality, an allegory. The allegory, by its nature, has…
Captian's Log There is a Prison 1 Feb 202525 Jan 2025 “There is a prison,” I said. “Is it just?” he asked. “And he waits in darkness.” “But is it just?” “Long ago, I commended him to the guard.” “If he…
Captian's Log Forgotten Myth 9 Dec 2024 What lies beyond the starry years, how silently the darkness nears.The jester chortles with delight, or's chocking on the wine in fright. The queen, austere, says not a word, but…
Captian's Log The Rising Storm 2 Nov 2024 Through the grasping, clawing dead, he hewed a path, and like a swirling storm his blade spun, turning and returning with tireless ferocity upon the rotting flesh. Down they fell…
Captian's Log Short Story: My Gift to You 14 Aug 20237 Aug 2023 Please Read:My Gift to You https://taletold.wordpress.com/short-stories/my-gift-to-you/
Captian's Log And Sisyphus Shall Lead Them 29 Apr 2023 It humors me that I once saw a comic likening the struggle of feminists to Sisyphus, where a fat, CEO type man kicked the laboring woman's boulder down the hill…
Captian's Log A Poem for Mother’s Day 9 May 2021 When the dragons return to the earth,and the maids of the sea come to land,when the heart of a man is made clean,and the eyes of the soul are refreshed,when…
Captian's Log Israel and Sisyphus 23 Jun 2017 One of my favorite Myths is that of Sisyphus. When I first read the tale I had what I think is a very American reaction, to view him as noble.…
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