David Bolton

Blessings.

November 1, 2024 by Exangel

by David Bolton.

weeding can be good for the soul.
clean sheets put the body to sleep.
a hug with love cleanses the mind.
kindness is a building block to wisdom.
art makes for an interesting life.
humility leads to clarity.
poetry can touch the soul.
music takes one to heaven.
grandchildren keep one young.
true wealth is a healthy body and soul.
how blessed to live in a democracy,
not a theocracy.

Death of a Sailor.

March 31, 2024 by Exangel

by David Bolton. Feel it, feel it deep in the pit of the heart plant this seed, embrace it for the last breach remembrance of brother Bill a sailor adrift, waves sweeping over vessel, this shell that carried him to so many ports of call. In Tahiti he stood at the crest of a two-story […]

The Final Act.

March 31, 2024 by Exangel

by David Bolton. 1 I follow a shrouded goddess the sun is hollow, the ocean flat oh, to see her face… touch those velvet lips before she flows over that wall of sand. on the shore I lose her and I sense I cannot pass Not my time. 2 The spider spins its flower into […]

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”