Captian's Log Short Poem: Why? 25 Jan 2019 I cannot forget, but whisper your name when thoughts of romance within me inflame. All suitors I meet are mem’ries of you. I cannot forget, though we are all through.…
Captian's Log Poem: Despair and Die 7 Jan 2019 Please read: Despair and Die Today I heard the phrase "despair and die" haunting me wherever I retreated, hounding me. My heart has grown heavy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMTX6b9Vijc&t=192s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSeyXx7j-W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMTX6b9Vijc&list=PLlVjFVMet3OWO-Prku9hsbuBtK3begsZw&t=17s&index=4
Captian's Log Poem: Gouged Eyes 1 Jan 2019 Please read: Gouged Eyes Excerpt: I followed the rules, I bided my time, I crossed every T, I waited in line; Each step was measured, all things were prepared, and yet…
Captian's Log A Return to Haiku 30 Dec 201830 Dec 2018 It’s been a long time since I tried writing a haiku. The rejected ones living in lonesome despair mere shadows of men Mars calls them to war without goal or…
Captian's Log Unknown Lament 27 Dec 2018 They lay the body down, and leave the dead to rest. Above a garden grows; below nothing but bones. The old man’s face soon wears away into a skull within…
Captian's Log Live On 10 Dec 2018 Someone I know committed suicide. He was a science teacher, and his classes were wonderful. I do not remember him well, but remember looking forward to seeing him, to learning…
Captian's Log Life in the Sky 7 Dec 2018 The city of the Dead was a sprawling affair. Unplanned, the buildings cropped up in a wonderfully organic way, like swollen growths, giant black blotches, against the soft twilight landscape.…
Captian's Log Prayer of the Undead 4 Dec 2018 The sorrow of my heart, damp and heavy, breaks my soul. I am overtaken with sickness. Life cannot be lived in this swamp, this miasma. Weeping, tearless face, encrusted stone…
Captian's Log Sonnet: No Hope 27 Nov 2018 Please read: No Hope So, I need a root canal. Fun. Anyway, the poetry of the situation hit me between bursts of intense pain that my tooth is dying, and once…
Captian's Log Poem: Broken Sword 20 Nov 2018 A short little jaunt into a medieval fantasy. Please enjoy. I know no other way and draw my broken sword. The jagged edge, which once pointed would pierce the flesh,…