Confusion Soldier Poems

Catch 22 was fiction
Appealing to a humour like mine
But there was nothing very funny
About Section 69.

The army ran on regulations.
Obey them and you'd be fine
But,...

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Thinking 1st Timothy, 2ndTimothy, Titus
Do they help us manage church worship
"Worship", of course, includes Sunday sermon?

Clearly we are to watch, pray, test spirits
Timothy had mom...

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A misfit among misfits 
Away from family and friends
Wondering was I wrong and
Is this how the adventure ends.
Had I chosen the wrong course 
Leaving my...

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The streets are vacant under the mystery rain gently falling as I gaze into the cold blue depth of a fluorescence-lit street

Languishing…

Under blaring lamps, the...

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Laying in fear, clear objectives blurred

By confusion, noise all around

Sand, I feel each grain against my face

Dog trembling against me, head buried under my arm

Her...

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HERO

“As a boy you’ll go away to that far off distant war
 And you’ll come back a man
 Of which my son I’m so proud.”
...

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There is a bee guarding me
on the balcony
Standing there watching, very still not winging
Who sent this bee to fortify me?
Watchbee, patrol-bee; striped winged defender
Will you...

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Another  time, another place; 
it wouldn’t need to be like this.
Another word, another phrase; 
we wouldn’t feel and live like this.

Another lie, another truth;...

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A cry in the night
A flash of dead light
A fools broken heart
A life torn apart

To live again free
To feel love like you and me
When life...

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How I would fix the Second Amendment

First I want to say
I was in the military and a member of the NRA.

In 2008 A guy named...

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Come on boys' sign your name, train them, and send them out to fight. 
Praise them once a year, let 22 die with a red...

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How can you prejudge someone with Post Traumatic stress?
They're a lot more compassionate than you can guess.
Plagued by constant images from their past.
Branded by the...

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RECON

We push noisily through the brush
and then hear the challenging voices;
two grenades should pave our way
to make a charge while firing rifles.

Dusk preludes and we...

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ATTACK

I can still see their faces
mouths open screaming silent screams
silenced by the loud barking 
of weapons, theirs and ours;
sudden explosions rendering moot
intensity of automatic fire.

They...

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DEROS

There is great relief when a tour ends
and you are processed out of the unit;
addresses exchanged and goodbyes done
all thought is about the Freedom Bird
and...

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