A Vast Barren Wasteland

A single bird flies over the vast barren wasteland,

The frozen plain, empty of life, an eerie vacuum.

It inspects the ground below, desperately searching,

Searching for a scrap of food, for relief, relief from

It’s seemingly perpetual, consuming hunger.

Yet all it finds are the ruins of a past glory.

The bird flies away, as it does a single feather

Floats down on what man once built in their glorious pride.

Yet as they gave it life, they slowly, ignorantly,

Killed both it, and the surrounding land as well, until

all that is left in the wake of its fall, is the cold,

Vast barren wasteland, not a single essence of life

The bird flies, weak, desperately searching for any food.

Yet all life is gone, and very slowly it grows weaker,

Until it falls, the last essence of life in the plain,

Falls and plummets, digging itself into the dead dirt,

And what was once a gloriously beautiful plain,

Is now the ruins of mans’ glory, A vast barren

wasteland, a frozen plain, empty of life, cold as death.

Blog time:

                Blog time:

                At the beginning of the year I was asked to start a blog and every week or so place a post. At first, the idea was welcomed; it seemed like an entertaining way to get some writing done. And so I wrote, by the end of the first few months having 4 posts. A few months later 3 more were written. And then I was asked to write 5 more. But it was then that I noticed I had run out of topics to write about. After a mere 12 posts, I had to spend more time thinking of a topic than I did writing it.  

                At this point I truly wish to stop writing posts and instead write in some other form. I hate having to spend up to half an hour attempting to come up with some topic to write about. I wrote about books, movies, breaks, even some short stories and a poem. I will probably continue to write short stories and poems to get the required amount of posts in, but eventually I will have to stop and write a real post, for which I will have no idea on what to write.

                My short stories and poem were, as it turned out, my best posts anyhow. I am in no way a writer who enjoys writing about non-fictional topics. I had more success writing my poem, a tribute to those with no valentine, and my short stories, a fiction about medieval knights and a few hundred words of a dying Jew who defied Nazis.

                If I had to write I would love to simply start a short story or poem, and just write several continuations of that for each post. I was actually offered to do that some months prior, however it had not occurred to me at the time I might run out of topics for posts and thus declined. If given the option again I will very quickly accept and discontinue the blog posts, and instead write stories and poems.

Inception

                Inception: My view of it

                Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is the story of “extractors”, people who go into the dreams of others to extract locked away information, trying to accomplish inception, in other words planting an idea rather than extracting an idea. Two extractors fail at accomplishing an extraction, and are now hunted down as extracting is not very legal. The man who they attempted to extract, however, offers a job that, should it succeed, will grant asylum. Unfortunately it involves inception, which complicates things greatly, leading to them entering a dream within a dream within dream.

                The story behind inception is a complicated one, one that requires one to stop and ponder upon what has been watched. This is what separates this movie from the average thriller that doesn’t require half a mind to watch. Inception is entertaining both as an action thriller movie, and as an intellectual movie, with a complex story.

                While many did enjoy inception quite as much as I did, I remain by my opinion that the movie was one of the best I have seen. The story, music, and special effects hooked me from beginning to end, which was quite some time as the movie is nearly 3 hours long.