Long Beachhead Poems

Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

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June 6th 1944
An Armada masses at Europe's door
Five sector landings, 160,000 troops
On the following beaches, our hero's would swoop
Utah, Omaha, Juno, Sword and Gold
Allow me to write, as my story unfolds
 
We, 50th Northumbrian Infantry
To...

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Dreams Forever Awake
                 by Odin Roark

A father dreams of getting it right finally
succumbs to sweat drenched nightmares

Somewhere
he stumbles about
to...

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I see in far side vision                             ...

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I've constructed a picket fence around me to keep jackanapes out
Through pickets they can see me, but I never allow them to touch
private parts of me I keep concealed, and don't talk about so much
I...

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Is the passion of loins or the merging of mind
More significant role found in Love if Love's real?
And does sex make its bed (a sad urge to survive
In some way when you die), more desires...

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Time Like Crashing Waves 

Time, like waves crashing on a smooth-faced sand,
Leaves imbedded ripples on shores of memory
And drop-offs marked with steep undertow warnings
In foamy filigrees etched on recollection
Of abandoned shells searching for lost pearls
Rogue...

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We are about to be invaded by forces unknown,
the Martians are coming and their cover is now blown.
The invasion will start in the east around dusk,
we were warned to stay away, that darn Elon Musk.

Their...

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Bright sun lit the sky and I lit a joint
  and the mood was gay and our spirits free;
when headed for the coast, Te Arai Point,
  on that long dusty trail through Forestry.
Back...

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My warden is the one who lights the specters.  

I apologize.  

Quite the respecter of persons.  He does it merely to emote.  



Welcome.  

Walk here along the palisade with me....

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Across starboard bow the cliffs drew nearer,
  into harm’s way mighty battalions drove -
men and mule upon cold waves of terror
  stormed the beachhead landings on Anzac Cove.
Great southern blue, red and white...

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Flatulent chaos came late last night.
My Lola Beans she jumped in fright.
A forceful toot so grand and loud.
Followed by a gaseous cloud.

it knocked poor Lilly right to the floor.
I followed suit and crawled for the...

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