The Last Druid
White Rabbit poetry Society Presents the World of Miles Hack
Note From the Editor:
It is a great pleasure for the White Rabbit Poetry Society to feature the one and only Miles Hack as this week’s Monday featured Poet. Miles Hack is a talented writer, with a kind and gentle soul. He is just starting his journey as a poet. His major inspirations come from his family, nature, and his positive mindset. Please take a few minutes to visit Miles Hack, subscribe and read his work.
The Last Druid
Atmosphere. There are many ways our human mediums articulate their sight. It has been my main inspiration for contemplating anything, especially with writing —which I didn’t initially intend to pursue in any serious fashion growing up.
I was greatly drawn to drawing in early childhood — preoccupied my free time (study time also) being immersed in rendering detail, & with how the illustrations allowed me to generate ideas.
It opened my mind’s eye to the respect of all types of themes — because of my holistic acceptance to all visualization. This understanding translated well when I would pick up novels & poetry. It was a love & appreciation of what someone was trying to convey — which would come over me like a strong wind if the craft was exhibiting upper-tier performance.
I wrote privately on and off during my deep contemplation years in studying physiology, esoteric philosophy, & spirit/science juxtapositions. This really helped me refine what thoughts were actually mine, versus being in the minds of others. I discovered there actually was something I did have to say.
I acquired a tongue for poetry because it did not come to any given standpoint by seemingly rational means. It helped me assure myself that to speak something doesn’t always necessarily need to be as linear as a modern movie script. It allows me to define a character that I’ve never seen, with attributes that are as distant from each other as the sun and the moon. It is the equivalent of soothing chamomile tea for the cluttered thoughts.
I am Legend by Miles Hack
Beaten, battered, bruised, bludgeoned
Corinthian pillars in need of good Smudgin’
This soul, it stands tall, amidst boxwood hedges
The Stone I call home 🏛️
The stuff of legends
Eternally dark, when no candle is lit
Should I flint a spark
The ghost will throw fits
& Echo my halls
Stirring me so…
That’s when I grow fire
turn shadow to bone
I am my own pantheontattered bannersno disgraceFloating on islands
through time & space
The moss grows like tentacles
All over the walls
Lichen chandeliers
My own waterfalls ⛲️
Some voices still hum
The psalms of old hymns
Echoing drums
Of a time long since
Genetics are tattered, yet spirit is brawn
Where will I come to… when Legacy gone?
History crumbles, a mythos of old
Brilliant & ghostly, ancient yet gold
These ruins are lonely
The temple remains
& so the fire burns softly
Til the dust can’t be tamed ⏳
Mentally, I am all over the place as it is, pursuing many formats and approaches to writing. You won’t find a more “brandless” writer than me. I like to make pieces that are nonsensical on their face, or a bit cheeky in their delivery. I’ve hung out with a lot of musicians & eclectic artists going way back to my Bachelor of Fine Arts time. I’m partial to music genres & raps, crafting songs from the words with generative audio software to render a variety in the feeling it gives off.
A lot of my time is spent operating my private garden network & homesteading up in the California Redwood mountains, so when I am tending the quail, or the goats, an idea will abruptly arrive, and I’ll drop the hay bedding and lock it in. Ideas really come from anywhere and at any time, so I always keep something handy nearby.
Poetry is just an amazing tool, enabling us to ascend past the constraints of linear writing & get to real juices of concealed emotional complexity. It’s a newfound love of mine.
To see so many on here with such amazing work just inspires me so much more than I could do alone. Huge thank you to Dorie for her diligence in seeing all poetry and the beauty within other’s work — she is an amazing inspiration — & I hope we all support her efforts continually as time goes on here at the White Rabbit Poetry Society!
Note from the Editor:
A special thank you to Miles Hack for giving us a look into his world of poetry. Miles is an inspiration, a gentle soul, and a talented writer. Please take a few minutes to visit Miles Hack, subscribe and read his work!
We are so grateful that you are here. Please leave a message if you are inspired. We would love to see what you write. The White Rabbit Poetry Society is a place to find some inspiration and even some friends. Don’t be shy—add links to your poetry!
Beyond honored to be a piece of WRPS 🙇thank you Dorie for all your work in the literary & historical arts — I encourage more to become founding members & grow this community to the highest heights! 🏔️
Celebratory Dumplings😋 🥟 have a wonderful “7-day streak” everyone!
There’s something about being close to nature and animals that seems to open the creative door. I love the idea of poems arriving while you’re out tending goats and quail. That kind of life feels like fertile ground for inspiration.