Contemplating weakness and pain and why I’m late…
Yesterday Stilling
My back did go out
Yesterday stilling my voice
But for pain filled shouts
&
Of Clay
And now but a rock
Or a wobbly lump of clay
Learning how to walk
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From – Straight Thru the Curves (aWIP)
Doing what should be done, or not, or must…
Excerpted from – A Personal Challenge
…As a general Robert should have turned
But this king and this man could not refuse to fight at this Bannock Burn
The eyes of all his fellow Scots looked to him
As their king and champion
Whatever his reasons Robert spurred his horse and moved to meet the foe
Quiet, as all waited to see how the fight would go…
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Laughing at life…
My Son Knew
Once again
The training has saved my life
This many more times than twice
The trained reactions take care of me like an old friend
The first two lines all I said
And from only that much my son knew
At hearing his certainty I bellowed with laughter
And he waited for the story that would come
Sure I’d fallen like something he’d do
Glad I wasn’t dead
Three steps up then flat onto my face. Marble doesn’t bend
Limping the next few days. Bruised the price
But still with my life
Once again
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle (aWIP)
Contemplating perspective…
Sing-Song Of Whales
Seas subtle and blunt
The sing-song of whales echo
Submariners hunt
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From – Short Thoughts: A Book Of Haiku (aWIP)
Contemplating the nature of love…
Excerpted from – That’s Real
Despite what you feel
I love you, like you, am more attracted to you than
Ever. Each year, each month, each day that passes has fanned
My passion’s fire until the heat makes me kneel…
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Contemplating the nature of duty…
Cause of Such
It’s words like duty
The cause of such abhorrence
Honor and beauty
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (aWIP)
For the women in my life that keep on…
Feeling the Fears
She wonders how she can go on
Fighting all the little demons
In her body
Wasn’t ready
For this awful test of courage
The fatigue and pain discourage
Mighty spirits
Grown to fear it
But courage’s not feeling no fears
It’s going on despite the tears
That cloud the eye
Wiping them dry
She picks herself up and strides forth
Not knowing how, only of course
For the loved ones
She can’t be done
So she stands yet another day
And will yet again come what may
Until she mends
Or til the end
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From – A Warrior’s Tears: Poems of Pain (aWIP)
Of love and commitment…
Stands Ready
A father watches
And stands ready to battle
Strife the kid catches
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From – A Warrior’s Battles: Poems of Struggle (aWIP)
Contemplating struggle…
Excerpted from – Seven Was Enough
In legend, Robert lay restless in a cave
Taken with grief
At the horrors beyond belief
He’d brought to family and friends that led to their graves
He pondered giving it up
Of sailing off to the holy land
But at that moment espied a spider
Struggling to reach the wall while he lay there
Six times it was that it failed…
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Of love and commitment…
All The History
An old man speaks of
His wife and all the history
Still so much in love
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From – Straight Thru the Curves: A Book of Haiku (aWIP)