Ahoy mateys! Welcome back to your favourite unseaworthy pseudo-pirate vessel. Swab some decks or your ears or whatever, I’ve never been much of an authoritarian and frankly am an even worse captain. Certainly no Crunch, that’s for sure. Dude had a Purple Heart! Admittedly fashioned from marshmallow but it’s still the elite martial honour among the more militant of breakfast cereals.
While not a massive fan of the following piece there are some lines that I actually consider among my best ever. I’ll leave you to make your own determinations. Thank you again and enjoy!
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“Unnatural Disasters”, November 5, 2020.
Cracks in the ground widen to cavernous gorges
Sheer and yawning, beckoning forward the gullible and optimistic
Left dashed upon the ground now far below
Peaceful winds devolve into cataclysmic tornados
Shredding the expertly crafted and shoddy alike
Displacing shattered remnants of planned disorder
And forcibly dismissing bitter transience of loss
Tranquil waves recast as devastating tsunami
Choking the lifeblood from mammals and metaphors
Fledgling dreams evaporating like waking nightmares cannot
Cursed and impure, tainted beyond sensible measure
Forever worsening perversion of long-undrinkable well.
————————————————————————————————————————————————-Interestingly the plural of Tsunami can include an “s” or not. Neat.
Maybe this turned out ok in the end after all. Quality wise I mean, as the closing poetic narrative is intended as “Bleaker” than the Greenwich Village nightclub district. That’s an American joke for all my southern neighbors who aren’t attempting the formation of a religious ethno-state of which there are many and whom I unequivocally offer my gratitude and admiration. Excelsior.
I read a line in a book yesterday which really spoke to me, “We’re all broken, the cracks must be filled in with something stronger”. Brandon Sanderson is far and away the best author I’ve discovered in the past year or so. The Stormlight Archive series literally made me laugh, cry and perceive a sense of honour I though had fled me during adolescence when attuning the more factual realities. A pleasant surprise for sure. Particularly always having considered a return to being inspired much more likely to follow being impaled upon a church’s decorative building feature(s). Was that too obtuse? What do I care? I’m inspired… and hopefully once the paramedics arrive, quickly unspired. π
Thank you again, my friends! Your reading, encouraging and any varietal of support means more to me than I am capable of expressing in current available languages. Let me consult some hieroglyphs and I’ll get back to you. Love, peace and truth.
-Alex Blaikie
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A fractured mind held together by cellophane and some used tack.
You do amuse me greatly. Thank you. I love your clever words displayed as a playful gambol. Such fun.
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Thank you so much
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I really like how you wrote this. π
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It is very much my pleasure
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Keep going with it, you have talent βΊοΈ
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What would happen? If you unified the work so it is mostly visual/physical? e.g. Cracks in the ground widen to cavernous gorges. Tranquil waves recast as devastating tsunami.
Sheer and yawning, beckoning forward.
Altering the abstract to be more visual/physical e.g. the gullible and optimistic. planned disorder.
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Very interesting π
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The tumult of life today and its unnaturalness so vividly and forcefully portrayed! Well done! Keep up the good work!
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That is an extremely gracious comment, thank you so much!
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