The Deep Dark Dunkernickle
is title of the poem from my book titled
A Darker Side of Dreaming. © 2005


The bowely Blunderplatz churns a boil of thoughtful scorns
Eyes of maidens roll in froth, impaled, by unicorn horns
He dips his dreadlock strands in straight
To make a brew to be the perfect bait

Into human nature he wandered for a place to set a trap
Baited with the start of something placed in a simple wrap
The allure of a mystery does entice a person well
One by one they came too near, and one by one they fell
He’d haul them off down to his dungeon and put them in a cell
And give to them a habitual dose of his experimental

Dip in a drop of pale worm’s sauce
Add the essence of psychedelic
This little, twisted Redboot mixes
Counting revolutions by the sixes
The liquid foam snakes into an “SSss”
For the single sin you’d unconfess
To repeat the favorite way that you transgress

While Blunderplatz awaited a name to give his foul concoction
He kept on adding parts and pieces until he declared it body-toxin

And intoxicate it would, but its first name did not stick
He would not name it for its pleasurable side-affect, before it made them sick
It became a craving for his captives to invite the pleasure of malefaction
And he found many different chemistries seemed to yield the same attraction

“Hurrah, hooray”, the little Redboot chortled, dancing ‘round the cauldron’s fire
Chanting a song, as he circled in bounds, its words were laced with ire:

“Today I fix, tonight I mix
Soon they will be mine
So happy am I that they can’t see
An evil plan in what they pine

Yay! It makes the skin boil
And hypertension makes muscles toil
Hurray! It leaves the mind asunder
Without spells or incantations to blunder
And it leaves the body lush
Longing for the next rush”


One by one he released the people -- he knew they would return
And return they did, and they brought others, to sample what they’d yearn

He thought about naming his brew simply ‘infection’
But that didn’t explain the allure of its malperfection

And so he still had no name for the sorrow
That was subtle today, but plagued tomorrow
He had no name for sin’s own juice
A curse with no name had been produced

What to term this mysterious tolerance for pain
Where immediate gratification is the only fleeting gain
Causing more and more desire, with less and less to fill
Pushing the lines of tolerance, doing Blunderplatz’s will

Blunderplatz never did decide upon the perfect diction
Because the toxin could be made from so many an addition
And this is the story of how Blunderplatz stumbled on addiction

-Shaddow (Wes Dirth)

I am currently looking for garb and style-lines to address artistic endeavor. I welcome collaboration if you can 'suit' my characters in your clever.

Project 1:
I'm in the process of writing an Elizabethan-era play, set amongst the bawdiness of Shakespeare's day. The characterizations rely upon what is hemmed or costumed together; an attire of agreeable juxtapositions worth fifty percent success-factor in whether, over-arching themes, just as bound to interplay, as interaction such as between fire/water/wood, or deciding factors for rock/paper/scissors, any magic-tre`, success impart measured by what costume-styles say. Visages of three polytheist muse gods, fem-dom divinity must bring to bear their traits, Speak magnitudes though saying much less than counterpart human roles must state.

[Happy to share with anyone interested in collaboration or merely intrigued.]


Project 2:
[As for the my other artistic endeavor...]

I am pulling together 10 years my unpublished works into a new book of poetry, I've realized in an lecture on artistic confluence how conjoined with imagery, leads reader toward the eluded and demystifies discovery. Confluence continues a theme throughout abstraction of no-less than forms of artistry. Combine how readers reason out a poem with developing photography. My muse most often manifests as a dark, effeminate guise. Photos capture her in a moment, her voice from changed perspectives and time will arise. Confluence can present her entirely as I realize.

Designers and models while I have poetry that is sexually charged for certain
I'm thinking provocative, not lurid, select reveals of compromise-free skin
Some poems invoke Spam-and-eggs Americana, perfect themes for pin-up modelin'
Even have a couple of "Marry-Jane" or "Daisy Dukes" themed works in which I got stuck revelin'
And my dark enchantress, born to imbue truth in all my purpose -- to ensure inspiration


Here's to trolling blogs for a bite!
- Wes

Thank you one and all for the warm welcome. I've been busy writing a play in Iambic, and working on some art. ....I am sorry I didn't respond earlier.

I'm hoping to find some inspiration in pin-up artwork for costume style suggestions and fashion ideas that I can provide in my play's annotations. I'm looking for "seasonal looks" for a sexy goddess version of "Mother Nature" (she requires 4 costumes, or MAYBE one really adaptable one with differing yet strong accessories).

I need my Queen Elizabeth to have a silhouette-thin younger garb, and appear later to be along in her years stylistically, while still appearing royally-provocative.

Also, there is a trio of fem characters that require distinct styling queues.... Each of the Three Muses should evoke immediate perceptions about their realm of creative influence [one expressing "Love and Loss", one expressing "Control vs. Freedom", and the last one expressing "Charisma - Rhythm & Coordinated Selection"].

All non-muse costuming needs to be period-esque, of say 16th Century Europe. I'm relying on distinct icon props or transcendent fashion-metaphors to connect the audience to each character's underlying character-traits. ...I think that best suited might be juxtaposed concepts (like leather/lace, or the constraints of a bodice attached to a flamboyant collar-line, or ribbed-dresses that expose upper-leg), and that this dissidence will best suit the dualism of the play. ....Free to use 16th Century Europe, not just England . . . . So as ideas: gypsy-looks would work; French bourgois will also likely work; as would sexy-ecclesiastic; and Mediterranean-nymph....

Time to start browsing for ideas, textile examples, existing photos, etc.

If you see anything that you think fits any of the before mentioned concepts, or know of good resource for conceptual/costume fashion, then please advise me as to where I should look or who I should talk with.

My thanks,

Shaddow