Captian's Log 2026: Fourth of July 4 Jul 20262 Jul 2026 Happy Fourth of July! For some reason, the enormity of this anniversary has not struck me. 250 years and counting. I shall be an old man if I make it…
Captian's Log Another Fall 30 Jun 202629 Jun 2026 A drink will strengthen a draft will kill a sip may lengthen but will never fill. I sought you by the riverside along the sinking bank.I thought, perhaps, in the…
Captian's Log Please Read: Where Heaven Only Knows 26 Jun 2026 https://tale-told.com/poems-2/where-heaven-only-knows/
Captian's Log Hay Fever Prayer 24 Jun 2026 The fire glowed in its meagre little way, more an ember than a flame, and by its light I wrote the words; my wild thoughts there tried to tame. What…
Captian's Log The Face of God 21 Jun 202620 Jun 2026 The soft touch of time, gentle memories tickling my dreams, ages me like a river sanding down a stone. Into the sea, I am taken, my details, my shape, by…
Captian's Log Shadow Dancers 6 Jun 2026 Death's soft tread and the tolling bell,Life's long sigh and silent farewelland the dancer is so pretty, so beautiful, on the stage. The lights are on her moving form, and…
Captian's Log Broken Sword 2 Jun 2026 Such sorrow touched my soul, I could not lift my head. Never would I be whole.My lady lay there dead. What madness then was mine, my mind cleft by despair.I'd…
Captian's Log Crow + Mirror 31 May 202630 May 2026 Still feeling real sick. Got another round of antibiotics. Hopefully this does the trick. Here's a very short piece: And when you touched my soul, it burst,a thousand shards of…
Captian's Log Memorial Day 2026 25 May 2026 Their backs were turned toward us,their faces to the fight. They left their home and comfortsto stand for what is right. And some do not returnturn back againcome home.Today's memorialof…
Captian's Log The Light From His Sword 18 May 202616 May 2026 How stealthily the crawling mists have come upon our rear. How sudden, now; I turn and see, the veil of nothingness. What figures here are wandering amid the silent dark,…
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