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Tag: Earth
Poetry and other Writing related to the Planet Earth by BW Derge
Mix Playlists Music
Amazon Music Playlist: Carina Round, Puscifer: Anniversary of the Mermaids
Mixtape 82 (2022): Amazon Music Playlist featuring Carina Round of Puscifer, Dodie, and Jacob Koller
Prose Writing
The Cosmic Tragedy of Existence: A Quasi-Philosophical Rambling Essay
Originally written in 2006, a philosophical ponderance on humanity’s position in the cosmic hierarchy of existence and whether or not we are doomed to be caught in an endlessly tragic state of affairs, both on an individual and societal scale.
Fiction Prose Writing
Tragedy at the Sky Lovers Skydiving Center (A Short Story)
A short story by BW Derge about a skydiving accident that is told in three parts, each one featuring one of the components of tandem skydiving equipment. Tragedy strikes as equipment malfunction dooms a troubled instructor’s first jump with a customer.
Mix Playlists Music
Amazon Music Playlist featuring Nine Inch Nails, Tupac, and the Beatles
A genre-blending Amazon Music playlist mixtape from 2006; Nine Inch Nails, the Deftones, Tool, Tupac, Dead Prez, Bob Marley, the Beatles, and a few more!
Poetry Writing
2 Poems: ‘One Shoulder Heard the Other’s Echo’ and ‘Waking into a Dream’
2 Poems by BW Derge from “Pillars of Salt, Book Two: Fuck Your Tea and Crumpets” – written in 2005. “One Shoulder Heard the Other’s Echo” & “Waking into a Dream”
Fiction Prose Writing
The Dark Ages II: St. John’s Coffee Master – A Short Story
A post-apocalyptic short story about a village that survives on the ruins of an old cathedral, the only remaining building centuries after the nuclear wars. Brother John and Brother Paul are in search for electricity – the magic of the old times.
Fiction Poetry Prose Writing
And the Sun Let Go: Chapter One: Between the Cracks
From Laenif: Book 2, “And the Sun Let Go” – chapter One: “Between the Cracks”
Fiction Prose Writing
Chapter 13: The Bodhisattva (excerpt from Laenif: Book One)
From Laenif: Book 1, chapter 13: “The Bodhisattva” depicts an individual struggling with a messiah complex that is slowly consuming them. The Bodhisattva can only look on with compassionate confusion…
Fiction Prose Writing
A Short Story called “Shoot” by BW Derge
A short story originally written in 2007, reimagined in 2024. Entitled “Shoot,” it is about 2 hunters and their dog in the final days of what seems to be a somewhat long trip in the wilderness that the two old men enjoy… Shoot.