Best Chaplains Poems

Thirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon

Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that says
Thirty-eight and  Never coming home
So I hope it’s not too late to write this poem


After your eighth round of...

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"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity 
from heart to lung to brain

you’re a free bird
flying high two crimes
now swallows two minds

You converse smoothly
while...

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Majestic cathedrals are erected for the worship of God,
Featuring towering spires and ostentatious facade.
Grand organs acclaim ancient hymns with clarion flourish.
Melodious choirs sing hosannas, languid souls to nourish!

Most congregants worship in less pretentious surrounds,
But the same generous blessings from above abounds.
It matters not the size...

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"A Soldier"
He gives his all.
With honor, for his country, his flag, his God, his family.
No questions.
No reservations.

He bears the cost with honor, and with his last breath, he pays.
A soldiers creed, "honor".... runs deep within his heart and soul.

As his journey leads him into harms...

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‘Tis lucky me father lies in the grave,
Than t’see the havoc I have wreaked
In the name of actin’ bold and brave,
My misadventures dastardly peaked.

In this musky gaol I am wasting away
While me life passes before me eyes
Chaplains teaching me how to pray,
Give up with their...

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Memories of a Green Beret

“Where have all the soldiers gone, Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone, Long long time ago,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Gone to graveyards, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?"

(an old anti-war folk song from the...

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Seventy years ago today, brave men stormed the shores of Normandy.
They answered the call to arms to protect and defend our precious liberty.
Some didn't reach the shore - they lay cradled in the sea's cold embrace.
Blood that once stained that hallowed place is now cleansed...

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Pain and struggle sometimes do take hold
Alone, terrible thoughts can take flight
Isolation intensifies, I feel so cold
A never ending descent into the night.

When a gentle gloved hand takes mine
And my pain soon begins to subside
And the darkness begins to decline
As a chaplain sits quietly at...

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"Greater love has no man than this, 
that a man lay down his life for his friends."*

The four men were more than friends,
they were brothers. 
Brothers of different beliefs, 
but of the same Father.

Each took their Father's commands
literally, even unto death.
They embraced an icy, watery...

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Please correct me if I do not accurately speak for you,
I would not misrepresent your fellow readers
and writers and breathers
and heart-beaters

but I believe outcomes,
goals we most want 
our local 
and national 
and international political networks
to actually achieve,
further develop,
move toward a more optimally cooperative economy,
a multicultural...

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Each year
I met September
with its calico seals of Samhain
slain in a fair death 
and bled by symptoms of naked hours
and loneliness.

I shivered with
a strange dread, 
not of predator or prey
but the threat 
of being siphoned too deeply,
into a predictable, mass identity.

I found myself swathed 
in...

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After years of fighting a war, you are never the same
When the demon never dies and coming back for more
Tired and frustrated, but the will to live
To them it is just a game
You are ready to settle the score
So you can go on with life...

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What say you when a pig bathe in a muddy muck?
When he rolls merrily like 'tis panacea to his strain?
Don't you gawk at the amazing shuck
Could be to you 'tis a flaunt to his inert brain.

But how honey he embraces the muck-
When the sizzling lust...

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The airplane's smoking tires kissed the landing strip at Dover.
The long flight bringing thirty brave men back home was over.
The nation mourns as one at the tragic loss of each precious life,
Who gave their all to rescue brothers caught up in terrible strife.

When the ramp...

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Mr and Mrs private first class stationed 
in Augsburg 15th battalion 
second Calvary division canteens and sea rashins 
were being distributed while we had four more 
court martials. lined outside of the jag office 
after a deferred payment plan failed again 
der banke of Munich...

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