Sunday, April 07, 2024

Memories - Volume 1 - 04-05-2024 (The Godparent Quest Ends Up With...Pizza)

Thank you for reading. 

I debated internally quite a bit before deciding to post this. Some of the youthful memories here are difficult and, not in a good way, formative. 

In the end, the reality was what it was. You can't have a full story without the good, the bad, and the amazing.

Regards,

Dan

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

James Brown Left Town...

James Brown Left Town...

Good gawd, Y'all,
It's the Fall,
Again,
Another year over the event horizon,
Haunting voices remind me of the past,
Shattered and broken glass,
The explosion-debris left just after the highest note,
Youth has come and gone,
All the young gods are creaking and gaining weight,
Aches and wrinkles and past glory caught on Youtube,
I thank the Universe for this new quantum entanglement with the past,
Something we can point to as the leaves fall,
As the wrinkled bark of our skin crawls,
While we stare at the cold hard headstones of forgotten idols,
Slow-dying white dwarfs cooling in faded space,
I listen to the ghosts across the electronic spectrum,
Thinking,
"See how glorious we were..."

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 10/14/2011 




Memories - Volume 1 - 03-26-2024

Thank you for reading.

Regards,

Dan

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Memories - Volume 1 - 03-21-2024

Memories - Volume 1 - 03-21-2024

I found these amazing notebooks on Amazon, of course. I wanted journals that would last.

Regards,

Dan

Friday, December 08, 2023

The wheel...

The wheel...

Sundog in the fog, I don't have time for a jog, I have to go via a wheel in the cog.

Since I broke my claw, I have to do it with one barely functional paw.

Just grinding in the wheels. 

AquarianM

By: Daniel A Stafford
Copyright 12-08-2023





Friday, December 01, 2023

The Adventures of Captain Yule...

The Adventures of Captain Yule...

He pilots by the North Star,
Maybe a little help from Google Maps,
Driving by Moonlight,
And taillights,
He wanders the three worlds,
Marveling ad the stars spiral around Polaris.

Bringing the spirit of good deeds,
He talks to ravens,
Dogs,
Cats,
People,
Door-holder with a smile,
Embracing thank-yous for any courtesy.

He doesn't take "sir" as a dignifier,
Preferring to walk an even level with everyone,
A simple and capable gentleman,
With a sense of soft and subtle magic about.

An eye-twinkle,
Easy grin,
A spirit of the season,
Traveling Summer's Winter home,
With a head full of snow memories.

Don't be surprised if he whispers to the wind,
That's another of his friends,
Many of whom are spirits.

A child of the old North,
Riding cheer around the Desert on a huge white steed named Behemoth,
He's tall like a tree,
And he loves those too.

Ho, ho, ho,
Captain Yule is back,
The last of the 12th-month heroes.

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford
© 11/30/2023