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Salty, Bloody & Gone: Myths the Sea Spat Out
Paperback
Series: Bloody Tales
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 3 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Salty, Bloody and Gone - Introduction
A poem is a harpoon.
A verse is a wave that smacks your teeth in.
This book is a storm.
We tried to tame it-with nets, ships, prayers, and lies.
This book doesn't sing lullabies.
It doesn't teach you to swim.
and lets you surface with teeth missing and questions you can't answer.
In these pages, they all speak:
The captain of the Flying Dutchman, long past giving a damn.
Ahab, chasing the whale inside his own chest.
The fisherman who follows the mermaid until he becomes part of her hunger.
Jonah in the belly of the beast.
The crew of the Essex, gnawing on their regrets.
The last thoughts of the Titanic, gurgling under luxury and hubris.
The Sirens that lure you just to laugh while you drown.
The Leviathan, who waits because he knows you'll come.
Poseidon, without mercy.
The Nautilus, the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis-they're all in here.
But not as stories.
As voices.
As scars.
As myths with fists.
These poems are monologues, bar fights, whispered curses.
Sometimes they pray.
Mostly, they warn.
They're not about monsters.
They're about us.
The people who fear monsters.
Worship them.
Create them.
Feed them.
And call it poetry.
Direct.
Dark.
It swings between drunken sailor slang, ancient myth, and straight-up existential barstool therapy.
Each piece sings, swears, weeps, and drinks with you-or against you.
This book isn't here to give you answers.
It hands you a question, sharp and wet, and dares you to hold it.
Read it out loud.
Read it when it rains sideways.
Read it when you're looking for the edge.
Welcome aboard.
Don't capsize.
Gerardus Baron von Sachsen is a poet, novelist, sea dog, and chronicler of everything we don't want to admit.
He's lived in Spain, Thailand, and Japan, performed jazz in smoke-stained bars, and written across continents with nothing but a pen, a passport, and a belly full of ghosts.
His work fuses blood and myth, whiskey and wonder, chaos and clarity.
Some call it brutal. Some call it beautiful. Most just read it and mutter what the hell was that?-and then keep reading.
He's the author of:
- The Batavia Novella
- Love, Lust & Despair
- Duende
- The Clock is a Butcher
- Das Meer - Eine Analyse
- 50 Makabere Meeresmythen
- A Thread of Wind
- 50 Extremely Grimm Tales
Salty, Bloody & Gone may be his fiercest book yet-an oceanic howl of poetry and memory, soaked in teeth and salt and the kind of darkness that doesn't ask for permission.
He writes like a wave.
And he doesn't break easy.
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