Poetry of a Lonely Sailor: (For Anyone Isolated)

By Aaron Michael Paskell

During the beginning pandemic Aaron saw a need for creativity and a voice for the overlook and isolated. After he graduated he was set on writing two films based on experiences he’s had in Boise, Idaho. After pitching them and receiving positive feedback he realized that his concepts had one loud underlying theme; isolation. He decided to travel to Tijuana, Mexico a year later to help build a home and care for abandoned families. Although he felt he made a major impact there was so much more for him to do. So he began to write poems to lay his burdens for the people all out. After he left he came back with a poem that would touch the people he cared for. The Lonely Sailor became a hit with everyone he shared it with, and consequently led to the book you are reading now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765233610

Aaron Michael Paskell

Aaron MICHAEL Paskell is a 21 year old aspiring Special Education teacher from Boise, Idaho. He is a literary fanatic who grew up reading Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, E.E. Cummings, and Walt Whitman. These are the authors who inspired his own work. He is an author obsessed with expressing his experiences from the wild world around him. Many of his poems have been written during the pandemic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Anchorage, Alaska, Tijuana Mexico, and Boise, Idaho over the last two years. He is a very introspective and curious person who loves to find meaning in every corner of the world. Through his experiences he has written children’s stories, skits, plays, films, songs, and an abundance of poems. He hopes to one day move to North Carolina to teach and inspire his students to pursue their passions.

Book preview

Alaskan Grown

I was feeling down with concussion protocol,

so I decided it was time for a recall

If I’m going to travel for the next few years I

might as well be in it for the long haul

I came back to a place that gave me my earliest memories

What I saw in myself was the downfall of my energy

But I got back up down in a cabin out in the woods

Ride on an atv and I was wearing a helmet in my hood

Bear in mind my friend burned a flag of pride

It’s easy to be seen in this day and age, it’s harder to hide

That’s why I told him to love others and ignore the noise

Hold your head up high and plug into the sound of poise

Understand that the media is in it for clout

They’ll label you coward just because

of what your life is about

Use the word of God not no bear mace

Even the wild ones calm down in a chase

We’re Alaska grown we know nothing

but bears and the snow we plow

When it comes to people we hibernate

and tell them how to fish

The only thing in my fridge was that dish

And I am not going to lie it was delish

This iced out boy got me feeling rich

36533.png

Awaken

Come help me up he pushed me down

Treat me like dirt till’ I live on the ground

Born with the right kind of family

The devil never wanted to be alone

He twists my cells to rebel

He microwaves my soul

Longs to preheat my life in hell

I feel the need to turn off my radio

Cause the station isn’t meaningful

Awaken me from this wasted sleep

It doesn’t do me any good

Darkness calls in the deep

With messages about my mood

36536.png

Begin Again (Deep End)

I look for fish in the