Captian's Log Short Poem: Desert Storm 17 May 2020 Tonight, there’s rain in the desert, and the storm’s like roaring lions. From West to East I see it fall, and from North to South it’s pouring. In the darkness,…
Captian's Log Drabble: I Dream 13 May 202014 May 2020 Here now I am dreaming that the sun is breaking through, and that the clouds are being driven away. I am dreaming that there is a blue sky again, that…
Captian's Log Drabble: Passing Away 12 May 202011 May 2020 There is a place for me, but for now I am lost in this storm, caught in it. I have no direction; I have only patience. I plod forward, not…
Captian's Log Drabble: In the Darkness 11 May 2020 I felt the rain before it fell, tasted it upon the air, the very scent of the wind was ready for it, but for all that, when the rain finally…
Captian's Log Caught 16 Apr 2020 The rain beat against the curved roof of the bus stop, beading up on the glass panels and rolling down onto the wet pavement below. He was burning; his head…
Captian's Log Poem: Cold but Brisk 21 Oct 2019 You’ll die one day, so don’t forget there’s but one life you live. Don’t hide away or you’ll regret the love you didn’t give. The pain will come—and pleasure too—…
Captian's Log Haiku: Dark Skies 16 Oct 2019 I hear the rain fall, war drums calling in the night. Awake, I’m breathless. Something in my soul resounds with this blackened storm, my spirit longing. Heaven kisses earth; tenderly…
Captian's Log It Rains Over the Dead City 27 Jul 2019 The rain poured itself upon the cement world, falling and rolling into gutters and sewers, pooling up into puddles full of mud. No one was alive anymore. The deserted streets…
Captian's Log In a Dry Land 10 May 2019 Far from home he found a dried up tree, bleached white under the cruel sun, and for a moment sat on its crumbling roots, gazing over the riverbed, the dried…
Captian's Log The Wanderer 25 Mar 2019 The wanderer: His wide brimmed hat cast a slanted shadow across his face, covering his eyes and reaching down to the corner of his lips. The weathered fabric of his…