Sombre Absurdité

July 14, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

O grand giants of Gath in grotesque graves,
will ye dread the deer that dance in your lays?
Does and bucks do the dead ye not revere?
And the dark dense depths do ye truly fear?

Mentum Caduca

June 25, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

eyes like fire
and heart like frost
mind of mire
soul exhaust

Infelix Lignum

April 30, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Impaléd thrice doth blood flow.  ‘For man which doth cause all woe!’

Slumber

February 12, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

…to leave reality
and sty to fantasy
Oh the bliss of slumber
‘tis jovial wonder!

But a Worm

February 3, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Who am I to thee draw nigh?
and who am I that thou wouldst die?

Guilt

January 27, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

What have mine hands wrought? Light away and darkness brought? Am I become mad? Alack, mine hands are red clad?

A Lutheran Case for Infant Baptism

January 8, 2022.Reading time 17 minutes.

Contrary to popular belief amongst credo-baptists, paedobaptism (infant baptism) is found in Holy Writ…

L’insomnie

December 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The dreamless state be a mighty foe. /
O good Lord do grant it a great below; /
Send forth thy ministers of fierce flame /

Overhaste

December 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Impatience is a poison. /
‘Tis a cloud that covers wit. /
It converts sense to chaos /
And teareth cool temp’rance down.

My Beloved

November 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

There is a woman in a distant land, Far in the forests of Acadia, Who possesseth both beauty and wisdom. The locks of her hair are fabulous flames

The Solitude of Night

October 30, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

O the silence was loud, nay, blaring /
Whereupon every sound thereafter /
could only be likened to thunder /
Alack the torture of frozen time! /
and the ardent boredom of black night!