“The tenacious delicacy of genius is often found in the most obscure corners of the world. --Thomas Kannon, The Lady and the Samurai” SpiritualityPassionDramaMartial ArtsComing Of AgeWomen EmpowermentLove HurtsOvercomerSwordsmanshipFemale Hero Author:douglas laurent
“LaForche's never-was has-never been emaciated spirit was now as it had always been, hole’ up by vapidity and things intangible. Yet it looked so common and ordinary, blenting into the masses using the trogs as a mask to hide itself (later Christina recalled Thomas saying that the sleuth Man said there was nothing unnatural like the common, and the detective was right. “The Fork” was a four-star pronged pointless entity, a spirit without form or life, except now it was evident, his external body displaying to all the leftovers of his empty writhing, splastic visage. Short of sheet and simply put, the girl had out-foiled him—. With the wolves of humiliation tearing the meat right off of his soul, he continued in his loner power mongering ways. Once formidable, they now reeked of rancid mal-diminishment. This is all he had left–and knew it, an armload of empty conquests, but the prize, the one he had desired and wanted so much, had eluded his hounding dogmatic futile, empty and sterile grasp. The power of powerlessness tonned his shoulders, gashing him and his god of pride apart. He shot a quick glarance toward the wall phone thinking of “The Bix,” Kerta’s # 1 Ace problem solving “mechanic.” --OnFelipe LaForche , Villain The lady and the Samurai” SpiritualityEvilMeditationDramaMartial ArtsComing Of AgeWomen EmpowermentVillainsHeroine Author:douglas laurent
“MacBeth and Me Down below the twisted step, The tavern awaits night's Dark guests. Fires aglow hiss the emb'rous red, And Hell waits upon her most prized dead. A charmed man of thirty or so, Ambition's son who vaults so low. Tarries he now at table's dread, and drinks The draught of one Soul condemned. Lingers he so, o'er beef and wassail, Choicest portions of desires assailed. Presses he down lusts murd'rous and hard, A driving rain of the blackest of hearts. 'Prince of Cumberland,' he had to traverse, Or fall asunder, star-crossed to his curse. Sees shadows now and smiles slight at me, Knows he a kindred, in like debauchery. Eyes my spirit through cracked mirror. Banquo saw too and was butchered in Fear. The Lady also, unsexed, it seemed (Tended she cravings 'cided that King). Aye, locked below under tomorrow's step, He lies awaiting in damned inquest. Mortals what I am and to what I agree, Bids me to his table, Macbeth and me. --Poems on the Run, vol. I” PoetrySpiritualityDestinyHellHorror FantasyMacbethDreadful Author:douglas laurent
“Garden of the Dragons (Vol. Three, 'The 'Halla') Epilogue (abridged 'Tis an immortaled foreverness we go to, On that wind shorn and storm torrid plain, Where hopes, dreams and life never dies - As we encounter ourselves, and in our love The victory do we gain. Even so, there are more forgotten fables of This eternaled lass, She exists in our dreams forever, that shadow land Where true hearts do last. She is our story, the legends and myths as are we, A tale to be told to the child within, who forevermore is free. Rides she everlasting in our quietest stores, And summons up the courage to live of what we Have royally into been born. Yea, once more she rules the Forgottenland, She has learned to love, but forever Alone, she stands. But we should know, deep down inside, Kari doth smiles for she is one of her kind (For if nothing else, she appreciates her all, Who she is and in this, knowing she will never fall). Thus it is written perhaps with our dissent, That those in Hell are of the unrepent. A place of one's own choosing so it would seem, Moment by moment we enter therein with our false dreams. Yet those who are there know one truth above all, The strength of iron hopelessness - Of realities not false. A prison to some, a Heaven to others, Freedom reigns when earthen illusions are shattered asunder. And Kari, does she know her secret? Surely she does, That to love and to be oneself are blessings from Above.” PoetryHumanitySpiritualityDestinyContemplationMortalitySoul SearchingGod S LoveHeroineValkyries Author:douglas laurent
“Valley of the Damned Ch. One: Dark Storm Rising ’Tis said giants grapple in the Earth so deep, To contend for souls that they might keep.” LovePoetrySpiritualityRedemptionGiantsYourselfSoul SearchingMonstrousHeroineMythical Creatures Author:douglas laurent
“Chimes at the Edge of Hearing (2011) Chimes in the heavens sound so fine, Whither does it go; how it chimes the time. Tumultuous river of colored tinselly sounds, Their music brasses forth, it has no bounds. Tinkle clackle tinke koo, How infinite the melody with notes so few. Chimes clanging silent at the edge of hearing, Does it not sound so jingly and endearing? Klankle ping chinkle cree, Quite the sound of discordant harmony. Pakkle kikkle ringly kat, Chimes echo out; they drift cackling back. A cacophony of clingles, pims and tinkle-ets, Chimes shinkle loud at the crescendo of their octets. Pakickle tamtankle jjingling kites, They fly into darkness on the clatter of midnight. Chimes symphonic at the coming black storm, Upon the shrieks their shimmering rrrings are born. Sounds and silences; the glistening chimes adorn, Haunting images of sounds so distant and forlorned. Cymbal they together; the sound of crackly glass, They remind of the times and rattles of the past. Metals on metals trinklelink clapping down the time, Their clittering rhythms broke, raw and refined. Concerto of jangles jinkles and dings, See their sound, how pleasant they dream. Off they go, winds klickle on smooth breeze, And chinkle and pinkle through my melodic tree. dlaurent” LoveSpiritualityLiteratureMusicMeditationMusePoetry LifeYin And Yang Author:douglas laurent
“A Florescent Floral Acrostic: Flowerevelation 777.777 – Goldenrod – Cosmos – Red-Hot Poker – Beardtongue – Marguerite – Beebalm – Speedwell – Cotoneaster ----------------- =’s God Rules. – Learn to see His sparkling hidden secrets which are abundantly made manifest in the ordinary.” SpiritualityNatureBeautyContemplationPoemsFlowersGods LoveAcrostic Author:douglas laurent
“Games that are played and always won, Often bring the tragedy of victory And songs that must be sung. Kari, Garden of the Dragons, Vil. III” SpiritualityFantasyMartial ArtsWomen S StrengthHeroineEpic PoetryValkyries Author:douglas laurent
“Games that are played and sometimes lost, Often bring the joy of loss that learns our course. Valkyrie Kari, Garden of the Dragons, Vol. iii” SpiritualityMartial ArtsWomen EmpowermentMeditation QuotesHeroineEpic PoetryValkyries Author:douglas laurent
“Samurai: I have searched for you a very long time. Kari: Do not waste breath, kill. It is our way here. Samurai: Not before I have my say, Corpse-eater. Kari: No wonder you took so long to find me. on Valkyrie Kari,, Garden of the Dragons, Vol, iiii” SpiritualityWomen EmpowermentSamuraiHeroineSwordsmanshipEpic PoetryValkyries Author:douglas laurent
“Insanity is often compounded on the multiplicity of simple things, as so often seen in deranged people who have a simple logic all their own. on Kari, Valkyrie, Cold Steel Eternity, Vol. II” PoetrySpiritualityMartial ArtsGhostsHeroineValkyries Author:douglas laurent
“Know your times and its designs. Swordplay is exacting. Thrus, be shrewd with your jianqizhe “swordpraying.” A lot is needed.” SpiritualityOvercomingMartial ArtsYouSamuraiNoah S ArkKatanaPrayer Warriors Author:douglas laurent