Captian's Log Catching Stars 2 Mar 202520 Feb 2025 I am catching a star in a net, or dancing a jig in the air, I am faster than I am, or shouting my whispered secret.I am…not sure and in…
Captian's Log A Silent Prayer 23 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 There rises now a silent prayer among the weathered massamong the men and wives and sonsamong the first and lastamong the daughters and the mothers blest,among the single and widowed,among…
Captian's Log And Beyond 19 Feb 202513 Feb 2025 There lies beyond this narrow bridge,and through this clouded way,a world that you have yet to seeand yet, I say, you may. Be brave and learn what is ahead,find what…
Captian's Log Please Let Me Live 11 Feb 20253 Feb 2025 I thought, perhaps, that I would dream, or if not dream, I'd think. I thought, perhaps, to make my case, or else hear some rebuke. I thought, but thinking's done;…
Captian's Log More Than Mere Mounds 8 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 Tell me a tale of the heroes of loreand the monsters they faced in the night. Proclaim now their fame, sing of their glory,how they saved the weak from the…
Captian's Log Kindness 4 Feb 20251 Feb 2025 Kindness brings tears to those ready to cryas sure as a knife draws blood.Though I'm too young and not ready to dieno power can forestall this flood. Calling on saints,…
Captian's Log Prayer of Hope 26 Jan 202525 Jan 2025 Song in the night, tears on my bed, I pray while awake and asleep. God hear my cry, heart's broken sigh, deliver your poor, frightened sheep. Broken sunlight, rainbow ahead,…
Captian's Log My Plea 19 Jan 202518 Jan 2025 There lies beyond this narrow breadth of suffering, if you can lay it down, a living offering, a happiness above all that you lost;so count, dear friend, and understand the…
Captian's Log And Make the Rhythm Mad 12 Jan 202511 Jan 2025 https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/and-make-the-rhythm-mad/
Captian's Log Face to Face 7 Jan 2025 Torn from gentle dreams and animal desires, staring open mouthed, the beast admiresoverhead, the hanging portrait:O what horrid fate!Himself there.Beware:Bygone gloriesmade mere memories.Man no longer man what art?Thou but residue,…
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