Captian's Log Summer to Fall Into Dreams 16 Jul 2025 When death was my shadow one Summer's end, and the fading light of day, by its welcoming glow, mended my troubled heart, I stopped and sighed upon my walk. I…
Captian's Log Sick 6 Apr 20255 Apr 2025 Sick, and fallen to the mercy of a terrible grogginess. It's hard to write, harder to have the self-control not to scroll endlessly through Twitter. I should do something, I…
Captian's Log Painful Meaning 3 Sep 2024 Nothing now makes sense and everything feels wrong.The pain won't go away, and so I sing this song:I long to sleep, escape it all,but dreams won't keep, nor silence fall.Old…
Captian's Log Goodbye, Good Players 20 May 2024 The pleasant dream is passing now,but comfort's here as I awake.The players take a little bow,but I don't clap for their own sake. For once I move or shift or…
Captian's Log Morning’s Nightmare 15 May 2024 Please Read: Morning's Nightmare https://taletold.wordpress.com/poems-2/mornings-nightmare/
Captian's Log None Can Foresee 2 May 20242 May 2024 Fantasy sings his song to me, and I, his grinning captive, sit to dream. But soon, too soon, I wake and burst the spell. All gone but for the memories…
Captian's Log Of Waking in the Night 26 Apr 202422 Apr 2024 Were dreams a drink, and songs a bed,and you the love I wish to wed,I'd drown myself and never rise,but lay there staring in your eyes. Yet dreams will end,…
Captian's Log The Sleeper’s Mask 12 Dec 2023 In the ruin of that great house, buried under broken beams, fallen walls, and ash, there lies a mask, a pale mask without expression. Content, the sleeper's mask, its eyes…
Captian's Log A Deep Sleep 24 Sep 202323 Sep 2023 And when I wake, all that I want to do is sleep— dream some more, these momentary comforts keep, for I'm worn out. It's true, there's nothing left, spent, used…
Captian's Log Ruin’s Ruin 29 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 The dreams of men have withered in their sleep.They lie as dead. The angels weep.The song has ended in a cry—The wail was raised, for all men die.As bones to…
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