Shot with a Canon 80D; f/5.6; 1/1000; ISO-100; -1 step; 135mm. 6/28/2018 5:00 PM.
Watching. Guarding.
Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
Tag: sea
Deneb Mythos #4: Captain Scarlett and her Sojurns 1 – The Three Way Deal
Today isn’t a great day for her crew, but it can get better. Explore some of the lower reaches of the Kxzzyxin Sea during the 4th Era under the flag of a modest trading vessel. Agreements can yet be reached when a shipment is stolen.
See the first step in Scarlett Nazareth’s journeys across what is known of the sea in this first story of her saga.
Deneb Mythos #4: Captain Scarlett and her Sojurns 1 – The Three Way Deal
Impure
Shot with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS; f/5.6; 1/2500; ISO-400; 20mm
Art
I can make you hurt like I do
If I really wanted to
Some things aren’t worth
Going down with the ship
Lost on the seas
Drifting for years
Seems like everyone’s hurt
Already
I want to be a pianist and a painter
Passing by them on the waves
No one wants to climb aboard
Even though I’m always inviting
I paint the same thing everyday
And never tire of the waves
Tumult and turbulent
I ride atop it
So many canvases of blue
And sunrises and sets
Lay scattered on deck
And in the cabins
No one wants to see it
Through my eyes
They just want to be caught
Up in these passing currents
I’m running away
Forever drifting
No more dry land
After a couple more years
My beard’s getting bigger
Hands growing frailer
The paintings change
As I run away
So much time in this place
I call the place that surrounds
The boat
All the faces that mix and churn
All the people that look
For something better in the sun
Still I feel young
No matter the time
I’m with the paintings
I’ve always painted
And the scenes only I’ve seen
Of the surrounding sea
Fed by my soul
Starved by my ego
Am I any better than them?
I think and see my hand
Shaking with the brush
While I press it to canvas
Messy strokes and mixed hues
I still feel good
Forever young
I know what’s real
I have it all
Forever I want
I want to die
I want to drown
But I love the way
The horizon looks
I feel good
I feel good
I run away
Always summer
Night comes and goes
No place is home
Just seeing where I roll
Off the backs of waves
I feel young
Another painting done
Moving on and leaving
Over the stars
And the calming keys in my heart
I feel young
Laying down now
It feels right for this to end
I’m torn apart
So elder there’s nothing left to do
I’m afraid to drown
But I’ve never felt it before
Water sloshes my body
I’m staring at the sun
Pass through the days
So quickly now
I love the way this feels
Running away.
Smiling and
Crying
With the salty tears
Of the whole ocean’s sympathy
Paintings getting wet
Around me
Leaking into the water
Running away
Running away from the hurt
I’m staring at the days
Running away from yesterdays
I feel good
I feel young
The water’s so gorgeous
And the air is so inviting
Don’t want to get left behind
Don’t want to miss out
I feel so good
I
Feel so young
My time in this place is done
Chords
Please
Sing me away
Run me away
Pre-Cambrian Void
In the pitch
Dark
Things are evolving
Lurking
In the
Frigid depths like
Aliens
Creatures that
Shimmer in endless
Night
The liquid night
Seawater
Full of every
Element and
Chemical
Pins and needles of
Icy depths
An endless cold
Abyssal plains
Aged dark
Ancient
Under the surface
Of waves so
High above
Like cirrus clouds
H.M.S. Mother of Invention
Mechanical wire ship frame with more loose, less taut white and red decorative wire. About 10 inches long.
Zeppelin
Zeppelin
Six balloon low zeppelin
Off coast of city
Wooden deck
With a strong bow
And a figurehead
Imitating ships
Of the sea
As its surface is
Built like one too
Over the sea
And land
Looking further
Into coasts where
City lights
Blink and twinkle
Destination:
Somewhere
Anywhere else
Only moving
Penny Tanker
Penny Tanker
An oil tanker
Full of pennies
Ran aground
On a reef
In a gulf
It ripped and
Roared over banks
And settled on
Sand and stood
As salvage
With a hull
Full of copper
And a fuselage
Full of oil
Ceasing to boil
How small a coin
Can do so much
Harm
World Garden
World Garden
On the backs of ancestors
Endless tracts tread light
Falling down
These stars of mine
Descending in night
From somewhere on high
Rolling control
Revolutions per minute
On rich soil shoal
Unravelling jewels
Gems and scrolls
Extrasolar
In the distance
Beneath
An ocean of
Light pinpricks
To Kxzzyxin Sea
To Kxzzyxin Sea
We waved from the gangplank
And they replied from the deck
Unaware that this would be
The last time they’d be seen
It seems really bright
To be seven o’clock
Waving from railings
On the tall dock
Not calm or collected
Watching them go
Triumphant collective
Coming back, we know
Fading into distance the ship
Soon disappears
Clutching others’ hands
Wishing we were there and not here
Carefree together
Some sort of tranquil
All properly dressed
And improperly thankful
Coming along
To cheer on from the dock
All the brave few who
Set out to nock
In our brave new world
There’s nothing left to see
Nothing left to see
Of the land we’ve whorled
Following fleets
Out to the blue sea
Stopping to look
At the unknown trees
Off of the coast
Of exotic locations
Where the ships went
We’ll never see the face of
Will-o’-the-wisp
Caught in cloth’s cradle
Rippling on a mast
Off now in star’s ladle
Into unknown cast
Our bold
Iconoclasts
We were on the pier
In our old world
From that last landing
Our wishes were clear
All of the people
Watching them leave
Were crisp with the thought
Of the fleet returning
Year after year
We would wait and watch
To see if our ship
Had found what it sought
Without rest
Went so many nights
Searching the horizon
For our brave ship’s crest
A heroic endeavor
First drafted from
A lust to see
What our world could become
All of the people
Watching them leave
Dreamed of the tales
That they might bring
From lighthouses
Looking all the while
Where hotter than a fire
Water’s light was doused in
Speculated wonders
Might be found by the men
Shouting their findings
Every where and when
Telling stories of things
And the flags they staked
A lonely legacy left
In their lulling wake
