Stress Memorial Day Poems

Tonight, my soul, be still and sleep;
The storms are raging on God’s deep—
God’s deep, not yours; be still and sleep.

Charles H. Spurgeon
(Streams in the Desert)

DAY...

Read More

I, Too, Sing America (and did so in my diapers!)
by Michael R. Burch

I, too, served my country,
first as a tyke, then as a toddler, later...

Read More

I travelled a distance,
The distance which is long and of miles.
I completed all the syllabus wide as sky.
I lived seven days like seven months.
I sacrificed...

Read More

Today we close our eyes,
we stand, 
we sit
we get down on bended knee
to honor and to mourn the soldiers 
who gave their lives to keep...

Read More

PTSD

My nightmares are violent;
rifle jammed frustratingly dead,
broken stock useless as a club,
only a k-bar knife and free hand
reaching for those darting figures
leaping over my fighting...

Read More

Shine, cats-

that which is to disdain for having life is no...

Gritted teeth,

grind'd mind,

hallowed speak,

hind benign...

She told too much about the little things,

dice-
mice-
china-
advice...

The creepy carry of...

Read More

Today we honor those who paid our price of violence
to protect us from each other's monocultural excesses,
we remember deep respect for those who have done...

Read More

It hurts very much,
When the one's you love,
Are ripped from your very life,
It makes you feel as if,
You are not up to being,
The person you...

Read More