Captian's Log Some Doggerel Lines | Meditations On Lewis’s The Four Loves 31 May 2025 So silent moves the knife of a faithful friend;the lover's poisoned drops will not amend.The father's gifts become a contract's bind;of shackles does the mother's love remind. All loves are…
Captian's Log I Ramble About My Dreams 30 May 202530 May 2025 I have dreamed this night of many things:A clock there was in viewa spoiled child looking through;for him I felt strange pangsfor through his eyes I saw the worldand longed…
Captian's Log To Miss 25 May 202524 May 2025 There is a jut of stone rising in that mossy glade,a lichen crusted rock that lifts up from the shade,where a boy, or spirit, ghostly pale, so often sits.This changeling…
Captian's Log Unsad Waltzers 22 May 2025 Where are the dancers in the light? Why's gone the beauty from my sight?I loved the effervescent fay. Why must they die when ends the day? In dreams, I pray…
Captian's Log Sung in the Damned City 20 May 2025 We sung in the meadow a lullaby and prayed the dead to sleep.We sought in the night a dream, but the vision wouldn't keep.I stood in the assembly—The blood cried…
Captian's Log The Short Word “Sin” 17 May 2025 What waits below the sacch’rine liesa truth we dare not tell.We block it out, the tears, the cries, the children in the well. But I cannot nepenthe drink,nor down this…
Captian's Log Rise 4 May 20251 May 2025 Sweet dreamy morning, easy, rising sun,I know my soul is forming—too soon, I have to run.Lift yourself into the sky. Bring noon and evening too.All who'ere born must someday die,but…
Captian's Log So Small So Smaller Grow 3 May 20251 May 2025 Just as the little things, too little to be known, are what make up the whole of things, just so, no one can know. It can be felt, it can…
Captian's Log To Learn Forgotten Lore 25 Apr 202519 Apr 2025 Behind the pleasant smile, I feared another face, a darkness in his eyes, and I thought, just in caseit's best to hide the book within some unknown place. You will…
Captian's Log See the Empty Grave 20 Apr 202519 Apr 2025 Now stand before that empty tombjust as the stone rolls back; see within death's bitter gloomand deep, enshadowed black:The body of our Lord's not there!Where has the body gone?Do not…