Ghosts vs. Zombies

If you're expecting this to be some kind of story about an epic battle, you've come to the wrong place.

If you've come here expecting to get some kind of statistics about how said epic battle would take place, you've still come to the wrong place.

I only gave that particular title to this Note because I thought it sounded a little bit better than "Why I Hate Zombie Fiction."

Facebook Note: A Note Wherein the Content Is Almost Shorter than the Title Is, Because I Feel that You Are More Likely to Read it Like This

Written and published to Facebook on October 4th, 2012

I just want to heal the world.

You know, the people, Mother Earth, all of it.

Is that too much to ask?

Facebook Note: Days Like These

Written and published to Facebook on September 4th, 2012

Author's Note: I was heavily considering not copying this over to my blog. As I said before I started doing this, I don't really want to make this particular blog be about me as a person; whatever story I want to tell through this ongoing amalgamation of words isn't the story of my life. I want to tell a story more of what I learn, and while I do include some personal experience, that's not the focus here. Unlike my fictional stories that I like to make focus on the characters themselves (sometimes even more than the plot), this is a story where I want you to concentrate on the themes and truths that you glean from the words.

This Note tells of a personal story. I wasn't sure about bringing this into my blog. But after thinking about it, I see that I was in the process of learning some things, and those things are worth sharing. Two of them that I will give away to you right now: It's not enough to live your dream, because you might find out that the dream isn't what you intended it to be (I came up with that idea before I ever watched the movie Tangled); and that pity is not the best technique for helping someone to heal emotionally.

Anything more than that is what you will see for yourself.

Sometimes, I have to write a Note like this one. I don't know whether I'll keep it, but I have to say it right now.

You see, sometimes you have to dispense with the word games, with the elaborate magniloquence, and the poetic structure that you try to create when you write. Sometimes you need to stop worrying about cadence and grammatical perfection and malapropisms. Sometimes you need to stop hiding behind poems or "fictional narratives," which means anything from a fable with a moral in it to a story that has a theme or metaphor to a possible story about the real future.

On days like these, sometimes you just have to open up and be honest.

Facebook Note: Choosing True Colours

Written and published to Facebook on July 30th, 2012

Author's Note: At first it might look like there are religious overtones in this poem, as there are in a lot of my poetry and other things that I write. However, I didn't want that to be the only possible interpretation. You could just as easily apply this to Romeo and Juliet, now that I consider it.

An author by the name of John Green once answered the question of debates between religious and non-religious people by saying that the debates which take place about the source of revelation is not very interesting, but that what we choose to do in response to these revelations is indeed a question that should interest us all.

While I still believe that the question of source of revelation is also a question that we ought to consider, even so I agree: what we choose to do in response to the revelations is just as important. So, remember that when you read this.

When the battle-lines are drawn

When we gouge our scars in sand

And the neutral ground's withdrawn

On whose side shall you stand?

Does your blood beat by your heart,

Or in rebellion bleed?

When we rule in extreme

And we hop the sharpened fence

When it needs be "us or them"

Will you hiss and shout offense?

Does your mind your course impart,

Or is it heart you heed?

When we our true colours shine

When we're proudly painted true

When we bear out true design

Will you be red, but claim blue?

So in your fight of mind and heart,

You know not which should lead?

When you're called to smite your ilk

For the standard that you fly

When you must choose blood or milk -

Must friends or kin now die?

I'd grant you fairer journey's chart,

If I thought that you would read

When we draw the battle lines

And shield our hallowed ground

I know my side, but as for thine,

In which array will you be found?

To heed true spirit is an art.

And revelation is what you need.

- [TAB III]

Picture by Mizth @deviantart.com

Facebook Note: Ye Olden Poetria

Written and published to Facebook on July 17th, 2012

Author's Note: Some of the references made here will not make sense, as you people (or person; can I kid myself into saying that I'll receive hits from more than one person on this?) are not the originally intended audience. For one, I mention "the 20 of you who raised your hands" in the first paragraph, and that was referring to all of the people out of all my Facebook friends who had ever read anything which I had written onto Facebook Notes. I think that 20 was an optimistic count.

For another thing, I mention "my other poems," and tell people to check out some of the other ones that I had written onto the same Notes. Well, I haven't included all of them here, and I will probably keep it that way. There is one specific poem that I mention called "Chemeone, id est Scorchfrost" which you will not be able to find here. That one is largely personal by nature. And besides, the last line of the poem is my full name, something that I don't think any of you few readers out here need to know. Don't worry about it, though; it's not important to know that.

You will see one further note beside the poem that it explains. Other than that, carry on.

So, has anybody out there ever read one of my poems?

Ok, now the 20 of you who raised your hands, you'll have some context for what this is about. For the rest of you, you might want to take a look at a poem I wrote in recent years so you get an idea about my style of writing poetry. Well, maybe check a few, since I've experimented with different things and once you've read a few you can get a general idea. They should be here in the Facebook Notes, somewhere. In fact, I think I'll make a page break here so you can go do that if you really want to.