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"Reading poetry is the finest form of excercising the writing muscle I know."
Poetry @Edwin Voskamp's - The Second Coming
"Zen Poetry", by an unnamed Taoist priest
"Epitaph", Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BC)
"Ulysses (excerpt)", Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1883)
"Xanadu", Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
"The Tyger", William Blake (1757-1827)
"She Walks in Beauty", Lord Byron (1788-1824)
"The Raven", Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
"St. Crispen's Day Speech", Henry V, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack of all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
"The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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I attended a bullwhip handling seminar given by Gery L. Deer in Ann Arbor, organised by a friend of mine who had seen Gery perform at a local Science Fiction convention. Since I have practiced diligently and acquired two more whips: it is boatloads of fun!
I have been running my new game settings, based on my serial campaign concept,
as well as have complete websites: ShadowWorld Mainline, ShadowWorld WWII and Grand Design.
I am working on a new current day ShadowWorld setting, with a new, entirely different cosmology.
More ...
Underworld, though laying claim to prior use,
was renamed to ShadowWorld in the summer of 2002,
to avoid confusion with earlier published role playing games with same or similar names.
It was moved to its own website.
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