The White Whale

The intensity of wants can be directly proportional to the unlikelihood of fulfilment.

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Audio at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t2-WvrnFvQ

Published in Strays. Available in print and digital on amazon.

Strays is a collection of two extended narratives and more than forty love-themed poems, exploring the meaning of romantic love while we have it and attempting to find the healing after its loss. Found within these pages is the short story Gutter Dog, the novelette Ginni, and the poems False Skin, the Boy Who Wore Clothes, and the Black-Wit Reveller.

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

Wow, this is one of the most metaphorically rich pieces I think I've ever read by you, at least the way I'm reading it...mythology is definitely the way to my poetic heart, and the maritime reference spoke to me as well being from a maritime province...awesome work.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Steve. Kind of like taking a doomed ocean voyage. LOL.

[kublakhan27]

LOL That sounds like most of my mornings :P

[genocide]

this is really good hon it reminds me of moby dick

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, tormentor.

[Ruth]

This really, really, wrenched me...deeply, brilliant! x

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Poppy.

[R. L. Hill]

The final stanza is my favorite. There is an undeniable rhythm to it that lulls in my mind like waves crashing into the shore. Very lovely and surreal images.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Quirklet.

[Cory Barrett]

Loved the whole thing, chasing something, something very powerful.

"Offered, but like a fist full of brine, forever out of reach"

This line... This line is killer. I can feel the splash of ocean brine in my hands, staining me with it salt, but never to be captured.

Beautiful writing.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Streamline.

[just Penny]

"A maritime will-o-wisp, shifting, submerging
A phantom on a silvery, sinking horizon "

Beautiful lines that pay fitting homage to a magnificent creature. I like the mention of Ahab in that classic tale of man vs beast. Wonderful. Penny

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Penny.

[m.s.early]

This poem spouts the plume of brilliance through its blow hole.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you.

[Baby Ricochet]

I keep my whale in an aquarium and feed it prozac

[Pryde Foltz]

Haha. Thank you, Baby.

[An owl on the moon]

A brilliant place of haunting... this ghost of a place... of an ancient phantom... and you take us into the depths of the sea... and the self...

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Craig:)

[Luke L]

Awesome stuff lovely imagery! A great prelude to your book :) In the "author's note" you might be missing something ;)

[Pryde Foltz]

Thanks Luke. It's back.