Wake to fire and thunder. As the earth trembles. Coffee and hardtack. Light blowing rain. Bugles calling. Rattle of drums. Orders barked. Mighty mounts. Hoofs pawing. Saddles await. Cheering troopers. Look to the sergeants. Shakos pulled down. Power k...
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Over 90 days ago
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Spooky Night
Black cat hissingFull Moon Crisp fall night Leaves swirling Jack-O-Lantern Eerie grinning Owl hooting Black cat hissing Goblins and Ghosts Cowboys and Princesses Laughter and wonderment Kit Kats Baby Ruth's Peanut Butter cups Dragging bags of treats Door to door Children...
Screaming Horses
Galloping hoovesBattle joined. Thunder. Smoke and grape. Galloping horses. Pride of France. Wave upon wave. Silver blinding. They rode. Crasing upon Red sticks waiting in the sun. Flashing steel. Rattle of musketry. Friends and foes. Tangled. In deaths throes. As I...
Choose Love
You are my AngelIn my dreams. I am in your arms. Holding me. Quieting me. Saving me. Healing my broken heart. Teaching me. To love again. Your divine love. Humbles me. You are my Angel. Sent from above. I choose love.
Lest We Forget
Those who about to die I salute youWe all have sat in our history classes as children. and studied and read about D-Day. June 6th 1944.To honour the ones that climbed into their landing crafts, rode across the channel to drop behind enemy lines, and ferried troops and equipment ashore. I...
A Soldier's Life
Bully boys allI took the Bristish steel On Bunker Hill. I sent grape shot On Lake Erie. I fixed bayonets On Little Round Top. I felt the knife At Greasy Grass. I moved up the hill Bully Boys all. I bled red Feeding poppy fields. I swatted mosquitoes On the deck of Y...
Open To Love
Tell me your fantasiesTell me your fears So I can relieve them. Tell me your pains So I can ease them. Tell me your doubts So I may wash them away. Tell me your dreams So I may fulfill them. Tell me your fantasies So we can live them. Show me your heart So I can love you. Open...
When we were young children, our grandfather would takes us to camp. As we sat cross-legged around the evening fire, he started his tale of our past. Slowly he poked the fire, sending embers floating into the sky. We waited for Grandfather to continue,...
On that cloudy day, she watched as a black sedan pulled into her driveway. Her heart dropped as two dressed soldiers walked up to her front door. Little Jake all but a year old on her hip, she knew to good would come from this visit. Both soldiers poli...
The Letter Finis
His mind goes to a sunflower fieldThree times they probed the base. They came during the darkest of the night. Mortars falling inside, kicking up dirt and random sandbags. The chatter of our heavy weapons returning the favor. Pushing their first wave back. Once then twice as we pour...
Land of Milk and Honey
In the Land of Milk and Honey.Across the tracks, dusty homes line the streets. Zoey the ally cat, soaking up the July sun. Watching the fat robins, fly from fence to trees. Day by day, turns to years. Scratch and scrap, scrape and scratch. Turning nickles to dimes. Old Glory waving,...