Captian's Log Poem: Apologies, Doctor 20 Apr 2019 Please read: Apologies, Doctor Excerpt: I never knew myself before, but waking up, forget my name. I hold my tongue; how I adore to be near you and play our game.…
Captian's Log Poem: By Fire Judged, We Stand in Ash 16 Apr 201916 Apr 2019 Please read: By Fire Judged, We Stand in Ash I don't, and still don't, know what to say about Notre Dame, but I wrote this. Klavan's opening nearly made me…
Captian's Log Poem: The Undead 13 Apr 2019 Please Read: The Undead I'm in a funny way today. I've been in a haze, and someone dear to me was robbed at gunpoint. I am overwhelmed.
Captian's Log Sonnet: Time 6 Apr 20196 Apr 2019 Please Read: Time Excerpt: As time is ever moving, driving fast, into that ultimate moment, the end, when all futures are burned, consumed, at last —our broken histories no hope to…
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 A Poem: Demons’ Birth 20 Mar 2019 Crawling out of Hell they return to earth. Bodies black and burned, fire gives them birth, bursting forth in plumes, ruptures from beneath. Out of Hell they crawl. Bloody corpses…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Into Dreams 18 Mar 2019 Please Read: Into Dreams Excerpt: The forest stretches on. Into its shadows I am drawn.
Captian's Log Short Poem: Want 12 Mar 2019 A banquet cannot sate, nor feast abate, my hunger. From cups overflowing, wine outpouring, still I thirst. Nothing can satisfy, be low or high, timeless want. These verses round a…