Red Wolf's Room

Image Source:  https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-persistence-of-memory-(1931)-by-Salvador-Dal%C3%AD-Salcman/623fb03024cf1aa3c40dbe5189b767c28ca63d08/figure/1 I t's been a long time since I've included my poetry here. I have been focusing my efforts instead on my novel series and to my blog. But there was an instance recently that had me composing poetry again, and I found that I had missed it. I missed the puzzle of working out how to lay it all out: How many lines? How stanzas? Which one is the perfect word? It felt like familiar territory, like visiting an old friend. Well, without further ado: The Woman of the World My shadow stretches beyond me As I walk through the sands; I can see the sun blaze Through tears and sweat, Feel the stinging, The blistering, The burning.   The nightmares haunt. Every day is Halloween; My Hound within hungers for blood, For flesh that has done wrong. We know where Evil lurks unseen.   “ To be or not to be ” Is not the question for...

 For those new to The Goblin Tunnels series, click here . IN MEMORY OF DAVID BOWIE: 1947-2016 The Goblin Tunnels: Hail to the King (and His Final Moments)             He watched his followers invade the other world.  He waited for the last of them to exit the atrium before he withdrew into the Goblin Tunnels.                The Goblin King meandered ponderously into the hallway.  His feet were silent against the cold cement floor.  After delivering his speech, his blood was beginning to cool, the heat soaked up by the architecture around him.                Wires were a major decoration of the Goblin Tunnels.  They snaked the floors, ready to catch the clumsiest of creatures.  In some of the smaller hallways, such as this one, there ...

Hello, I know I haven't been doing very much on my blog which can be considered a good thing.  Here is some of my new and old work.  For more, check out my short stories and The Goblin Tunnels series. Nothing All I see is white. All I see is black. A void.   I am here, forced to bear the numbness. I can only speak within. There is no one.   When it all ended, I thought I was making a difference.   But I'm back where I started. I was dropped into the void before I could save myself.   The same smells, same sights, same feelings. The pain of despair.  The despair of hope.   Everything changes. But I don't.   I am outside. And I am cold. ____________________________ The following  was inspired by David Bowie’s songs “She’s All I’ve Got” and “Segue - Ramona A. Stone/I am With Name” *Some dialogue are direct quotations from Bowie’s so...

The beginning opens with a lot of clapping which could be alluding to Lady Gaga's recent attempt at a song called "Applause" , but I don't know for sure.  The puppets in the video allude to Bowie's past work, (obviously), and the DIY atmosphere to the video could be what Bowie means by "Love is Lost", as in the professional filming and lighting, the elaborate costumes, the big name actors and the special effects are the only reasons we love a video and not for the real content such as the singer's words and message.  As for why the human Bowie is in the bathroom and washing his hands might be because he is saying he is through with dressing up his meanings and "washing his hands" of it, like Lady MacBeth.  The scene is the opposite to the one he shot in his video "Thursday's Child" where he was with a young woman and a large decorated apartment; now he is alone, in a small bare bathroom. He speaks of his beginning where eve...

As we already know from Lady Gaga herself, David Bowie is one of her influences.  With her new single "Applause", all I see and hear is David Bowie.  First the picture of her with the smeared clown make-up reminds me of Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes" song. Copyright:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pco91kroVgQ Copyright: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusZZDbIoiQi5p9sEkrp_gI5AzZsYlCDXsQfp4x0cbjDSn-T5Dj7fnTt_t78C3C9AEIgOLmbb_o2L0sT33bcIznJJJISxu7e0kiHbKOqFVfMMHd4owqVI0n9wm9Z9cpkdEImVvsAXtksQ/s320/ashes_bowie.jpg Then in the first stanza of Lady Gaga's song, the intonation of her voice is very much like the intonation Bowie used in his album "Hours."  I'm not a fan of Lady Gaga, but I do like a few of her songs like "Bad Romance" because it was different.  The concept of "Applause" just reminds me of Bowie's song "Fame."  She is using too many Bowie elements so that she is not influ...

This is my newest poem:  Doctor, Slice me open! Rid me of this endured sickness Infecting the penetralia of my soul. I worship the true musician With locks of gold; A god of treasured words. He makes me retch. Staring at the blue liquid, I know, I am trapped among ghosts. My face is red, you ask. It's from bloody tears. The past is forever present Only untouchable. I hit the pane of glass by day. Breaking through by night. He says we will creep together. He yearns for my love, But he is deaf to my speech. Oh, erase these ballads of woe swirling in my head! My heart has bled a thousand times From the razors and daggers of life. A myriad of broken vows, murdered dreams. Wrench it out, I beg you! Saw off my blistered feet. I don't wish to run after love. A cruel wind I cannot catch. A beat I fail to ke...

Once again, I feel as though everything has been done.  Check out these images:  I understand that Lady Gaga likes David Bowie's stuff and is inspired by it, but was there really NO OTHER symbol she could have used.  I wonder if she even knows why Bowie used it.  I personally don't like her music.  Their beat sticks with you, but it is jam-packed with meanings that people are sticking onto her music instead of the meanings already being there as in Bowie's case.  I feel when I hear her music and see her ridiculous outfits, it's just for the attention; there is no loneliness or soul-searching or wisdom that Bowie has in his music.   I think I was born too late and ended up in the wrong era.