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Hey guys, welcome to the Galley with No Name!

To be quite honest, I’m really new to the whole blogging shabang, and it’ll take me a lil’ bit to get used to it. This blog may look a bit rough around the edges for the time being, but as I learn the ropes and start getting creative with design the page should start taking shape.

Well, I might as well introduce myself: I’m Hari, and I’m a student in high school. I have, for the longest time, been doing some thinking about the nature of life and the world we live in. Existential crises come and go, and it helps to get them out on paper in a way that truly expresses the way these thoughts make me feel. These are reflected in the poems that I’ll be sharing through this blog. Some are old, others recently written, and all a representation of my state of mind on paper.

I haven’t quite decided the direction this blog will take in addition to these poems. Maybe a few essays, or even a short story if I ever feel adventurous enough. But experimentation and creativity is always fun, and if this blog ends up just being a reflective space for me that’s fine. But I’d like to share these thoughts with whomever wants to read them, and take you guys along with me on a journey inside my mind.

A final word on the name of the blog. My favourite poem ever written is Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In it, Ulysses (or Odysseus, titular hero of the Odyssey) returns home to Ithaka after his gruelling journey, yet still wishes:

To follow knowledge like a sinking star, 

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses.

He eventually decides to leave Ithaka, to “sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.”

Yet in this journey, as in the journey which carried him back home, the humble galley bore him across the Aegean, the galley that Homer never named. Such are thoughts and poems and literature: they help you to get where you’re going without you even realizing it. I hope this blog can help all of us, myself and my readers alike, to move through life with a little more clarity and thought.

So hop aboard this galley, and let’s see where we all end up.

Signing off,

Hari