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slave is someone who does not have authority over their own lives slave is someone subservient controlled dominated by somebody something slave works very hard for little or no pay slave is property of somebody something slave is someone forced to obey sycophant is someone servile who overly flatters more powerful individual for personal gain sycophant is bootlicker brown-noser fawner flunkey doormat lackey lap-dog yes-men parasite toad-eater (pause reposition) somebody possessed of excessive vanity may cultivate sycophant swarms side by side they stand clothed in black not quite similar the one slightly taller possibly because the other suffers poor posture perhaps they are related because in odd way they appear alike or of same ilk yet upon closer scrutiny it becomes apparent they have very little or nothing in common the taller one with troubled sad eyes the other smiling obsequiously the taller one more muscular ***** from working menial labor the other with curved spine slumped shoulders because of undue bowing and crouching while blowing smoke up other people’s ***** sadist is someone who attains ****** gratification by inflicting physical pain shame to other people sadist is someone who delights in excessive cruelty degradation to others ********* is someone who achieves ****** pleasure from being hurt humiliated abused dominated punished often self-inflicted ********* is someone who enjoys being harmed misused mistreated ignored by others sadomasochist is someone who gets ****** gratification by alternately or simultaneously enduring hurt causing pain to somebody else sadomasochist is combination of sadistic masochistic tendencies in someone who obtains ****** pleasure from inflicting submitting to pain cruelty sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator who gains pain through pleasure 2000 miles from equator IED cell phone detonator sycophant dilettante ***** up to sadistic art critic or publishing editor on escalator while below on main floor of shopping mall ice rink figure skater pirouettes bows to nominator surreptitiously bribed by infiltrator mutilator
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Feb 27, 2011
Feb 27, 2011 at 4:38 AM UTC
sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator
slave is someone who does not have authority over their own lives slave is someone subservient controlled dominated by somebody something slave works very hard for little or no pay slave is property of somebody something slave is someone forced to obey sycophant is someone servile who overly flatters more powerful individual for personal gain sycophant is bootlicker brown-noser fawner flunkey doormat lackey lap-dog yes-men parasite toad-eater (pause reposition) somebody possessed of excessive vanity may cultivate sycophant swarms side by side they stand clothed in black not quite similar the one slightly taller possibly because the other suffers poor posture perhaps they are related because in odd way they appear alike or of same ilk yet upon closer scrutiny it becomes apparent they have very little or nothing in common the taller one with troubled sad eyes the other smiling obsequiously the taller one more muscular ***** from working menial labor the other with curved spine slumped shoulders because of undue bowing and crouching while blowing smoke up other people’s ***** sadist is someone who attains ****** gratification by inflicting physical pain shame to other people sadist is someone who delights in excessive cruelty degradation to others ********* is someone who achieves ****** pleasure from being hurt humiliated abused dominated punished often self-inflicted ********* is someone who enjoys being harmed misused mistreated ignored by others sadomasochist is someone who gets ****** gratification by alternately or simultaneously enduring hurt causing pain to somebody else sadomasochist is combination of sadistic masochistic tendencies in someone who obtains ****** pleasure from inflicting submitting to pain cruelty sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator who gains pain through pleasure 2000 miles from equator IED cell phone detonator sycophant dilettante ***** up to sadistic art critic or publishing editor on escalator while below on main floor of shopping mall ice rink figure skater pirouettes bows to nominator surreptitiously bribed by infiltrator mutilator
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Technology: how I love you and loathe you in the same breath your phonic ears listening out for a babble of distress from a childs vest sleeping soundly in the next room your ten tentacle arms purge my words and shelter emotions across vast distances for long lost friends to find comfort in 140 characters your innovations are the respirator the breathing lungs the beating heart the bionic limbs that help without want to walk again if only you could just once guess my words correctly just once is all I ask I invited that girl for a pint not a riot and the black berry ripens in the east is now an improvised IED Technology: will you ever be perfect? or will you always be evolving how will you know that you have not stepped back to be overshadowed by an ape punching numbers searching for Shots and finding Pints in the middle of a dusty Riot
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:31 AM UTC
Shot Pint Riot
i look out into dark, savoring the quiet, the stillness of new dawn, wondering who die today, whose life will end and whose will change forever, sending a shock of wave of pain and grief from an epicenter of a dead soldier who will die today, whose mother wife daughter will cry today, whose father son brother will fall today the sun has risen, reality has set in, its time to ride, its time for some to die, we roll the dice, who will land snake eyes to sit in the humvee, knowing you are playing russian roulette, you can’t  have hope, no inkling of a dream, lose the desire, it is the only way to survive, knowing you may die, give up all hope, consider yourself dead, be grateful at the end of the day when you are not. the drive down suicide alley, like the walk up gallow’s stairs. now i know how they felt. you surrender to fate. you stop thinking, you stop feeling, you go numb. no longer in control, my life is no longer mine to live or die i don’t believe in You, not since i was a boy, but i pray, that if we hit an IED, that i die instantaneously. i don’t want to lay on the ground, feeling the horror of dying, crying that i want to live, screaming out for my mother like i’ve seen happen to other guys there are things worse than death, the living hell of coming home in pieces, physically damaged, emotionally traumatized, spiritually disillusioned, which slowly erodes and destroys your life. a new war, another battle, this time at home, fought in your head. the cycle of trauma 6-9-12, addiction, depression, how long do you let yourself free fall till you hit rock bottom i am a man, i am not suppose to be afraid, but i am, i can’t show or say, not to them, especially not to you. i am not allowed to show fear, be vulnerable, you will lose respect, stop loving me, tell me to man up, in some subtle way when everyone has left, everything lost, when the pain is greater than the fear. you must, you will, reach out, or die in combat, killed in action, in the war fought in your mind.
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Jun 27, 2019
Jun 27, 2019 at 5:13 PM UTC
soldier’s fear
i look out into dark, savoring the quiet, the stillness of new dawn, wondering who die today, whose life will end and whose will change forever, sending a shock of wave of pain and grief from an epicenter of a dead soldier who will die today, whose mother wife daughter will cry today, whose father son brother will fall today the sun has risen, reality has set in, its time to ride, its time for some to die, we roll the dice, who will land snake eyes to sit in the humvee, knowing you are playing russian roulette, you can’t  have hope, no inkling of a dream, lose the desire, it is the only way to survive, knowing you may die, give up all hope, consider yourself dead, be grateful at the end of the day when you are not. the drive down suicide alley, like the walk up gallow’s stairs. now i know how they felt. you surrender to fate. you stop thinking, you stop feeling, you go numb. no longer in control, my life is no longer mine to live or die i don’t believe in You, not since i was a boy, but i pray, that if we hit an IED, that i die instantaneously. i don’t want to lay on the ground, feeling the horror of dying, crying that i want to live, screaming out for my mother like i’ve seen happen to other guys there are things worse than death, the living hell of coming home in pieces, physically damaged, emotionally traumatized, spiritually disillusioned, which slowly erodes and destroys your life. a new war, another battle, this time at home, fought in your head. the cycle of trauma 6-9-12, addiction, depression, how long do you let yourself free fall till you hit rock bottom i am a man, i am not suppose to be afraid, but i am, i can’t show or say, not to them, especially not to you. i am not allowed to show fear, be vulnerable, you will lose respect, stop loving me, tell me to man up, in some subtle way when everyone has left, everything lost, when the pain is greater than the fear. you must, you will, reach out, or die in combat, killed in action, in the war fought in your mind.
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I'm twenty seven years old Not, old by any standard But, in my world...I'm seven Seven years removed from an IED Seven years away from the day that changed me Seven years into my new life We were on a routine mission If you can call anything in Khandahar routine Convoy escort, some press folks A country singer and his band And us....always us We were Military Police Bringing 'em in, taking 'em home there we were, Same trip, same road same barren landscape same potholes same, same, same Until November 4th, 2005 Nothing has been the same since then I'm a Sargeant, Military Police William Blankenship Fort Hood, Texas...just a kid...until We were on Operation Squire routine....all routine The first humvee hit an IED flipped right in front of us the bus of civilians, stopped radio chatter like mad Rocket fire took out the Stryker LAV Blew it to bits No survivors We were pinned down We didn't return fire Couldn't....didn't know where to And had to get the civilians to safety We were only 2 miles from base LAVs were on the road immediately I don't remember much about it Just, that it was routine Started with the headaches took about a month Then, the nightmares Sent me back home to get over it To a Veterans Hospital in Texas Still saw the humvee flip Heard the screams Saw the fire, and watched the explosion behind And I wasn't sleeping anymore Couldn't handle bright lights for a time Still can't, but not as bad Doctors said it was PTSD I said, "you think?" What else could it be Two years they kept me in there Two years I saw them die Then...they hooked me up with a service dog New program they said He'd keep me relaxed I couldn't take care of myself And now, they want me to have a dog I said, I'd try it...but no guarantees Said his name was Squire funny....I knew that name from somewhere But, couldn't remember where Big, oafish, Newf he was Like a small fridge with hair And big, brown eyes Squire.... First day he just sat and looked at me Waited until I started to move And he moved with me Came over, and pushed his head under my hand It's been that way ever since I move, he moves I eat, he eats three times as much We bonded pretty quick I still get the dreams, but, Squire knows and he's there Under my hand, calming me down That's all he does, calms me down He doesn't take away the dreams But, he helps I don't know how But, he helps They still die, and I still scream But, not as often Just routine....
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Nov 7, 2012
Nov 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM UTC
Squire - a recollection of war
I'm twenty seven years old Not, old by any standard But, in my world...I'm seven Seven years removed from an IED Seven years away from the day that changed me Seven years into my new life We were on a routine mission If you can call anything in Khandahar routine Convoy escort, some press folks A country singer and his band And us....always us We were Military Police Bringing 'em in, taking 'em home there we were, Same trip, same road same barren landscape same potholes same, same, same Until November 4th, 2005 Nothing has been the same since then I'm a Sargeant, Military Police William Blankenship Fort Hood, Texas...just a kid...until We were on Operation Squire routine....all routine The first humvee hit an IED flipped right in front of us the bus of civilians, stopped radio chatter like mad Rocket fire took out the Stryker LAV Blew it to bits No survivors We were pinned down We didn't return fire Couldn't....didn't know where to And had to get the civilians to safety We were only 2 miles from base LAVs were on the road immediately I don't remember much about it Just, that it was routine Started with the headaches took about a month Then, the nightmares Sent me back home to get over it To a Veterans Hospital in Texas Still saw the humvee flip Heard the screams Saw the fire, and watched the explosion behind And I wasn't sleeping anymore Couldn't handle bright lights for a time Still can't, but not as bad Doctors said it was PTSD I said, "you think?" What else could it be Two years they kept me in there Two years I saw them die Then...they hooked me up with a service dog New program they said He'd keep me relaxed I couldn't take care of myself And now, they want me to have a dog I said, I'd try it...but no guarantees Said his name was Squire funny....I knew that name from somewhere But, couldn't remember where Big, oafish, Newf he was Like a small fridge with hair And big, brown eyes Squire.... First day he just sat and looked at me Waited until I started to move And he moved with me Came over, and pushed his head under my hand It's been that way ever since I move, he moves I eat, he eats three times as much We bonded pretty quick I still get the dreams, but, Squire knows and he's there Under my hand, calming me down That's all he does, calms me down He doesn't take away the dreams But, he helps I don't know how But, he helps They still die, and I still scream But, not as often Just routine....
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I sit here alone, gazing into the distance forlorn. And my heart beats faintly: it is battered, bruised, and foreworn Tenderly, I close my eyes and think of you: the subject of my dreams. And as I do, I feel the ripples as my heart begins to tear at the seams.    So I close my eyes harder, to see the form of your spellbinding smile. But as the wind rustles through the leaves it takes my mind off you for a while. However, as always, my heart begins to yearn for you my dear: I wish that I could, even if for a moment, to hold on to your fair hand. But my mind is quick to remind me that I did get to hold you, yet things didn't work out as I had planned. At this point, my mind is now clouded with thoughts of only you. I look up to the sky and perhaps there is hope for us, it is so impossibly blue! But in a sudden twist of fate, the orange and yellow embers start streaming through, a touch of sunset on a distant hill And here I Ied myself to believe that the gravity of my emotions could quite possibly make time itself stand still...                              I loved it all my dear: the wishing, the longing, the yearning and the wait
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Nov 5, 2018
Nov 5, 2018 at 3:07 AM UTC
THE WAIT
Last night, I spent 45 minutes In the bathroom Because my doctor Told me I needed more Calcium in my diet. He says calcium Will make my bones strong, And if I want to grow up To be as big as my dad Than a hefty glass of milk Should do the trick. I'm lactose intolerant. But to this day I wonder, Is calcium the culprit? When an infant's bones Are crushed by tanks, And all that is left Is the dust, That you wipe away With the palm of your Blood-stained hand, On an unmarked grave Too old to remember, But it keeps on Coming back. Back to a time Where potential meant The possibility of Developmental potency. Not the supposedly High capacity for Danger. Like the flowers In the spring, Build their spine From our breath; Change is the Life in our blood. The minute an Eighteen year old's Parent's swallow the fire Of an IED 6,032 miles away, Believing their child fought for, Change. Verb. To make or become different. Verb. To give or get foreign money in exchange for: Verb. To remove a ***** diaper from a baby and replace it with a gun. Where do you run to? When sleep is the only place In a thousand miles where you can find God. When rest is the only peace you haven't felt since they said the war is finally over. When dreams Are the memories Of your children’s Stardust When you Can’t adjust To the lack of future Freedom liberated From materialism When no Dictionary Has your definition of Change. Noun. Something you find in your pocket. Verb. Something you find in yourself. Change, Is not something You can touch; But it's something You should want To feel.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 3:05 AM UTC
The Price of Milk (Change)
Last night, I spent 45 minutes In the bathroom Because my doctor Told me I needed more Calcium in my diet. He says calcium Will make my bones strong, And if I want to grow up To be as big as my dad Than a hefty glass of milk Should do the trick. I'm lactose intolerant. But to this day I wonder, Is calcium the culprit? When an infant's bones Are crushed by tanks, And all that is left Is the dust, That you wipe away With the palm of your Blood-stained hand, On an unmarked grave Too old to remember, But it keeps on Coming back. Back to a time Where potential meant The possibility of Developmental potency. Not the supposedly High capacity for Danger. Like the flowers In the spring, Build their spine From our breath; Change is the Life in our blood. The minute an Eighteen year old's Parent's swallow the fire Of an IED 6,032 miles away, Believing their child fought for, Change. Verb. To make or become different. Verb. To give or get foreign money in exchange for: Verb. To remove a ***** diaper from a baby and replace it with a gun. Where do you run to? When sleep is the only place In a thousand miles where you can find God. When rest is the only peace you haven't felt since they said the war is finally over. When dreams Are the memories Of your children’s Stardust When you Can’t adjust To the lack of future Freedom liberated From materialism When no Dictionary Has your definition of Change. Noun. Something you find in your pocket. Verb. Something you find in yourself. Change, Is not something You can touch; But it's something You should want To feel.
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He and she walk alone so young. So young he and she are. Without another's tender touch and tender kisses. Being without a loving, caring other; expressions desolved by war. They're still in the desert guarding buddies. They're still in war-torn towns. So young they are. Behind every house door lurks an unseen enemy. Every crevice in their home-sweet-home, a hidden device. Every patch of an American road hidden IED'S. Every turn,every corner,every glance,every walk, Every position, for some, a hand gun hidden in his or her belt. So well they learned their craft. Their home vehicles are now Hummvees. Their towns are now the unfriendly and foreign Middle East. They walk alone,these ANGRY ISLANDS, unto themselves they are... RW Dennen
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 2:11 AM UTC
These angry islands unto themselves
All weapons of    the fates you've sealed Are no match for    this pen I wield The power to    articulate Ticking rhyme bombs    to detonate The conflicts waged    gambling mankind My perfect hand    is treaties signed Hellbent hounds pray   like dogs, I hunt Frontline this notebook   battlefront With metaphors   of mindless drones   Like similes   to brainwashed clones Whose C4 booms   and IED's Can't build bridges   like ABC's Or tear them down   with death regimes By rusting through   the war machines Flamethrowin’ my   verbal grenade With ****** noun   scorched-earth tirade   On militant   cold-blood elite King cobras know   I'm packing heat Seeking missile   resolution Winged raptor   devolution Prehistoric   barbarism Literacy   cataclysm Stockpiling   extinction bones We're cavemen carving   fallout stones My Hiroshima   prose explodes With nuclear   bushido codes Released from my     katana's ward To free my press   from shogun lord Oppressing haiku   imagery   And samurai   epigraphy   Expressions of   my ronin soul Omitted by   the daimyo Satsuma is my   poetry     My final draft's   Nagasaki    Ink cartridges   strapped 'round my neck I print no charge   or background check And ****** every   live round free Of innocent   blood elegy And killing sprees   of gunned-down news Domestic violence   black and blues A Number 2   pencil dependent Obsolete   lead-head amendment Open carry   shoots a blank Empty shell case   at my think tank So grip this peace   then **** and pull it **** my diction   write the bullet
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Oct 8, 2016
Oct 8, 2016 at 2:10 PM UTC
Weapon of Choice
All weapons of    the fates you've sealed Are no match for    this pen I wield The power to    articulate Ticking rhyme bombs    to detonate The conflicts waged    gambling mankind My perfect hand    is treaties signed Hellbent hounds pray   like dogs, I hunt Frontline this notebook   battlefront With metaphors   of mindless drones   Like similes   to brainwashed clones Whose C4 booms   and IED's Can't build bridges   like ABC's Or tear them down   with death regimes By rusting through   the war machines Flamethrowin’ my   verbal grenade With ****** noun   scorched-earth tirade   On militant   cold-blood elite King cobras know   I'm packing heat Seeking missile   resolution Winged raptor   devolution Prehistoric   barbarism Literacy   cataclysm Stockpiling   extinction bones We're cavemen carving   fallout stones My Hiroshima   prose explodes With nuclear   bushido codes Released from my     katana's ward To free my press   from shogun lord Oppressing haiku   imagery   And samurai   epigraphy   Expressions of   my ronin soul Omitted by   the daimyo Satsuma is my   poetry     My final draft's   Nagasaki    Ink cartridges   strapped 'round my neck I print no charge   or background check And ****** every   live round free Of innocent   blood elegy And killing sprees   of gunned-down news Domestic violence   black and blues A Number 2   pencil dependent Obsolete   lead-head amendment Open carry   shoots a blank Empty shell case   at my think tank So grip this peace   then **** and pull it **** my diction   write the bullet
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. •up the wall... he wou- ld climb every  night again and again... • every time he did, to the bottom he would fall•fortunately aid came quickly to where  he had lain... • on handsome horses, sat  men moustach- ed and tall  •   overhead the moon cried sullen and grim•*oh why  does he always par- take in such foolish endeavour?*•the men hurr- ied back on thundering  hooves to save him •he laid motionless  awaiting to be put toge- ther•"we're the same,  both ellipses, she and i" •same words he would repeatedly mutter •*"to be closer to her I will always try•only then she would know that forever i'll be falling for her"*• **IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII |-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------| |--|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|---| |-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------| |--|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|---|** .
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 11:26 AM UTC
The Great Fall
The young boy wrote his Christmas Cards Wrote his name as neatly as he knew He put the ones aside to take to school And in his bedroom he hid two These cards were special for the boy One was for his Uncle, one was for his dad The cards just had to reach them And here's the plan he had.. He knew that mail to Santa Claus Made it up to the North Pole But, he wasn't sure just how his card Would reach his fathers soul You see, the boys dad and his Uncle were taken by an IED They'd both been gone two years now Since the boy was only three He visited the cenotaph In the park, most every day He'd stop and he'd salute it And then he'd go and play It was a gentle hi to both of them For he knew that at this place He could feel them staring down on him Though he'd forgotten his dad's face He took the cards down to the park And he left them by a wreath Left over from November He laid his two cards underneath A man was walking past the boy And he saw the boy salute But, he also saw the Christmas cards And he thought the whole thing cute He waited for the boy to leave And he opened one to read It said  "Merry Christmas" , "Thank You" "I miss you, yes indeed" The man went to the nearest school to ask about the lad To find out if this one young boy Was a student that they had A teacher overheard his tale And called the man in for a talk At the end she sat there crying She had to go out for a walk She went to find his teacher Told the tale of this young man Then between them they sat down and They both devised a plan The next day when the class began Christmas Cards they would write Each one was for a soldier And to them this just seemed right They would set up a class field trip To see the vets up on the hill In the special Veterans Hospital to the kids, this was a thrill The hospital was telephoned And the vets were set to meet Miss Johnson and Miss Watson's class To get their Christmas treat The kids were dressed in sunday best Like they were a month ago But, this time it was different This time there would be snow Each card said "Merry Christmas" All said thank you, some were sad To think this project started with A card left for a dad After all was done and dusted The kids continued on They went down to the cenotaph To give more cards to those now gone The story made it through the school And each day another class Wrote Christmas cards to soldiers And they delivered them en-masse By the action of a little boy who wasn't locked to a computer He started a tradition this young boy, the saluter.
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Dec 19, 2012
Dec 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM UTC
The Saluter and the Christmas Cards
The young boy wrote his Christmas Cards Wrote his name as neatly as he knew He put the ones aside to take to school And in his bedroom he hid two These cards were special for the boy One was for his Uncle, one was for his dad The cards just had to reach them And here's the plan he had.. He knew that mail to Santa Claus Made it up to the North Pole But, he wasn't sure just how his card Would reach his fathers soul You see, the boys dad and his Uncle were taken by an IED They'd both been gone two years now Since the boy was only three He visited the cenotaph In the park, most every day He'd stop and he'd salute it And then he'd go and play It was a gentle hi to both of them For he knew that at this place He could feel them staring down on him Though he'd forgotten his dad's face He took the cards down to the park And he left them by a wreath Left over from November He laid his two cards underneath A man was walking past the boy And he saw the boy salute But, he also saw the Christmas cards And he thought the whole thing cute He waited for the boy to leave And he opened one to read It said  "Merry Christmas" , "Thank You" "I miss you, yes indeed" The man went to the nearest school to ask about the lad To find out if this one young boy Was a student that they had A teacher overheard his tale And called the man in for a talk At the end she sat there crying She had to go out for a walk She went to find his teacher Told the tale of this young man Then between them they sat down and They both devised a plan The next day when the class began Christmas Cards they would write Each one was for a soldier And to them this just seemed right They would set up a class field trip To see the vets up on the hill In the special Veterans Hospital to the kids, this was a thrill The hospital was telephoned And the vets were set to meet Miss Johnson and Miss Watson's class To get their Christmas treat The kids were dressed in sunday best Like they were a month ago But, this time it was different This time there would be snow Each card said "Merry Christmas" All said thank you, some were sad To think this project started with A card left for a dad After all was done and dusted The kids continued on They went down to the cenotaph To give more cards to those now gone The story made it through the school And each day another class Wrote Christmas cards to soldiers And they delivered them en-masse By the action of a little boy who wasn't locked to a computer He started a tradition this young boy, the saluter.
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For you it is red, white and blue; firecrackers, cookouts and American beer. How easy it must be to assume that by saying “God Bless Our Troops” you are patriotic. I have an entirely different view of the 4th of July. Every boom is an IED, every pop a ****** round. If your God was present when my brain was shattered he did not show up to see me through my recovery. You presume that every soldier is a Christian like you. I was an American soldier. I’ve bled and killed in service for this country. I left behind pieces of myself in faraway lands. It was my choice. Do not use me to support your moral propaganda. I am a veteran. I am not your political stage-prop.
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 7:57 PM UTC
Anniversary
In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row'. So wrote the poet John McCrae, Recording the reality of his day. Now after ninety four years have gone, The use of the poppy has now moved on. Instead of remembrance of the brave, It sends addicted millions to an early grave, And today our young troops fight and die, Without anyone asking the real question, why? In Helmand's fields the poppies blow, Beside the compounds where they grow, Surrounded by hidden IED's, Planted to **** and maim with ease, The brave young men sent on patrol, Hoping they return alive and whole, As they risk all to do their duty, The poppy crop provides illicit ***** That funds the continuation of this war, In which no one can say what we're fighting for! Tom Higgins 12/11/2012
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM UTC
Poppy Price Tag
Follow me through skies of Grey through murky marshland mire. Accompany me through forest labyrinths and fields of pale rye. Step carefully through old mine fields and feel my chest fall silent for momentarily my heart skips, caught by the long grass stalagmites. The imagination coils up horrifying imagery, a moment in time where warriors flee, outmanned and gunned down, the indigenous falls to his knees. Look up and seize my thoughts from falling into the past, for life is like a bike ride, and in order keep a grasp, head forward following an orbit and do not lose sight of the tunnels end for satellites which go off track crash, break, smash and bend. Sat in the grass staring up, you giggle and pull my legs, I trip on accord and hear the twang of an IED before crumpling like folded paper, onto a jagged boulder, feeling a pain in my head. I roll onto my back and face up to the battlefield where hungry farmers fend off intruders who gun them down again, blink and they’re shackled as the decorated men of war crack out cigars, sip from crystal and cackle. Scrunch these lids and rub my eyes the image raids from red to yellow crimson streams appear to mellow as your face above me, draws calm overhead, forget the cries of war-torn towns and villagers who bled to keep their crop in the forlorn era which saw many a soldier dead. A soul escapes and floats past your face we pause and marvel as it pirouettes smoothly, spiralling slowly into the fog and falling back down in the adjacent swamp. Trudge and trace footsteps west of the border As the scenery picks up, you nudge my ribs and point down the valley, towards the green and golden leaves of Burma where our journey ends.
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 12:38 PM UTC
At War With Peace
Follow me through skies of Grey through murky marshland mire. Accompany me through forest labyrinths and fields of pale rye. Step carefully through old mine fields and feel my chest fall silent for momentarily my heart skips, caught by the long grass stalagmites. The imagination coils up horrifying imagery, a moment in time where warriors flee, outmanned and gunned down, the indigenous falls to his knees. Look up and seize my thoughts from falling into the past, for life is like a bike ride, and in order keep a grasp, head forward following an orbit and do not lose sight of the tunnels end for satellites which go off track crash, break, smash and bend. Sat in the grass staring up, you giggle and pull my legs, I trip on accord and hear the twang of an IED before crumpling like folded paper, onto a jagged boulder, feeling a pain in my head. I roll onto my back and face up to the battlefield where hungry farmers fend off intruders who gun them down again, blink and they’re shackled as the decorated men of war crack out cigars, sip from crystal and cackle. Scrunch these lids and rub my eyes the image raids from red to yellow crimson streams appear to mellow as your face above me, draws calm overhead, forget the cries of war-torn towns and villagers who bled to keep their crop in the forlorn era which saw many a soldier dead. A soul escapes and floats past your face we pause and marvel as it pirouettes smoothly, spiralling slowly into the fog and falling back down in the adjacent swamp. Trudge and trace footsteps west of the border As the scenery picks up, you nudge my ribs and point down the valley, towards the green and golden leaves of Burma where our journey ends.
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polish those internment touting charms
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May 14, 2013
May 14, 2013 at 9:35 PM UTC
another IED to furrow the islamaphobic brow,
poetry composed in perfect silence doesn't exist... for there is no such thing, perfect silence there are no noise canceling headphones, a coachable prevent defense, protecting my inner ears from hearing words forced to the surface, loudly spoken, up floating unto the mind's constancy of enraging waters, the highest definition of mental disquiet, the imperfect silence frag grenades, IED's detonate, all nicknames for the brain's multi-voices, all argue raucous, unafraid of exposure, over~shouting to be heard, freely secure in the seeming silent privacy of my brain, mine owned internecine mental slaughterhouse and yet, what I write down, mine to keep... my home, and my mind, an isle, an atom of Earth and flesh cells, split surrounded by a broad freshwater river *the isle of the mind spits fingers of land and voices, injecting themselves into the two~sided, belly~soft riversides, forming bays and coves, hiding places for crafty human devices* my poor mind, mind it well, as this sailing craft called poetry, now, but a tiny ketch to keep me afloat upon the river surround, while avoiding the backwash wakes of larger enemy ships of state, those who gladly drown me for pleasure, enjoying the pretending-to-be-quiet internal screams denouncing the myth of perfect silence but the imperfect poetry born amidst imperfect sleep, the residual, mine to keep...
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Jul 2, 2015
Jul 2, 2015 at 9:28 PM UTC
poetry composed in imperfect silence
The young boy walked on through the park His mother close behind But then he took off swiftly, though She knew that she would find Him standing at the Cenotaph Saluting, ramrod straight He did it everytime they passed No matter what the date He knew that is was honorable A place to honur those Who died defending what was right And every time he froze. Each time they went to ride the swings He ran ahead to stand He did it, and she was proud he did Though he didn't understand A silent sentinel...piegeon perch Memorialized the dead There were pigeons all around it And two piegeons on the head But Billy didn't mind the birds In fact he liked to say The piegeons are the soldier men Who can no longer play He always walked around all sides Always looking for the names Of his father and his uncle Bill and Randy James They were taken by an IED Though that meant nothing to Bill But each time that he found their names He then saluted and stood still He knew that they would not return Although gone, their names were here He saluted them each time he came Of the pigeons, he'd no fear This silent, solemn cenotaph Was a place he loved so much Although he couldn't see his father His name plate he could touch He knew that his saluting Made his mother's heart strings sing After his silent hello to his dad He could go play on the swing...
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
The Saluter (reposted after deletion)
Police brutality political chicanery, the privateering of industry that polarises community Poetry you can plainly see is ruining me along with corporation tax and mindless drone attacks, but I can bomb my own flat empty magazines into my own dreams, eject the casings, reload and repeat, I sabotage my own defences IED's I have for tea Nothing feels better than opening a love letter when it blows up in your face That place is reserved In the bunker when the fans are on, when the sound of screaming gulls are gone and the air is scrubbed before we breathe I do believe and that belief is based on movie reels, deals I've done with the Devil and the good lord's son, the ruling class, the kiss my *** brigade and pharmaceutical top grade opiates. If what is is what is what it is and what it takes? I only open my eyes when I'm sleeping and that's to watch me watching me scribbling out some poetry and erasing my body chemistry I can see it if that is it.
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Jul 13, 2016
Jul 13, 2016 at 4:03 AM UTC
ASBO barbecue
It's the last few hours.. the seats and trays put up.. Most of the passengers are starting to wake up.. somewhere down there, thousand feet below... waiting for me....home. Asphalt drive ways, no IED's.. warm hugs from friends.. no enemy... Home... Please wait till we have reached our destination... palms sweating now..feel a hesitation.. So lucky for me... a tear fills my eye.. not all of us got the chance to be on this flight... Home......
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Home
there are no words for the way my ski n electrifies when y our smoke wraps ar ound our bodies and sends shivers down m y spine because you a re trickling your finge rs down my ribs and s ometimes i can not hel p but think about how blood felt trickling dow n my wrists and by the time you came around i was so far gone that i 'm more than surprised about how someone wh ose smile is always six m iles wide could love some one who wants to be bur ied six feet under and if i lost the chance to tell you that i love you, then i don ;t know where i would be and if i make my bed in a grave before you do i hop e you never pick up the bo ttle again and try to find s olace because we both kno w that anesthetics are neve r any different from poison s and if your nerve endings remember my touch and y our breath gets short but h eavy when you think you j ust got a text from me but you remember that the te xt will never come; i want y ou to know that i love yo u and that you can make it through anything and if yo u do just one thing in my r emembrance then i want y ou to never ******* drink my taste away because no matter how strong you se em i still think that my p assing will make you a lit tle uneasy and a little diff erent maybe and i wonde r if you'll cry anywhere c lose to as much as i used t o cry on a nightly basis a nd will you sneak out an d walk down to the stop sign where we exhaled a nd inhaled smoke and we held each other and **** man when i laid on the as phalt i still wished a car w ould come speeding by e ven though that's so **** ed up and this isn't even a poem it's just a ****** up story but if you ever love d me at all, you won't pi ck up the bottle- you wo n't take a shot even if it m eans remembering the tr igger.
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 10:54 PM UTC
overflow
there are no words for the way my ski n electrifies when y our smoke wraps ar ound our bodies and sends shivers down m y spine because you a re trickling your finge rs down my ribs and s ometimes i can not hel p but think about how blood felt trickling dow n my wrists and by the time you came around i was so far gone that i 'm more than surprised about how someone wh ose smile is always six m iles wide could love some one who wants to be bur ied six feet under and if i lost the chance to tell you that i love you, then i don ;t know where i would be and if i make my bed in a grave before you do i hop e you never pick up the bo ttle again and try to find s olace because we both kno w that anesthetics are neve r any different from poison s and if your nerve endings remember my touch and y our breath gets short but h eavy when you think you j ust got a text from me but you remember that the te xt will never come; i want y ou to know that i love yo u and that you can make it through anything and if yo u do just one thing in my r emembrance then i want y ou to never ******* drink my taste away because no matter how strong you se em i still think that my p assing will make you a lit tle uneasy and a little diff erent maybe and i wonde r if you'll cry anywhere c lose to as much as i used t o cry on a nightly basis a nd will you sneak out an d walk down to the stop sign where we exhaled a nd inhaled smoke and we held each other and **** man when i laid on the as phalt i still wished a car w ould come speeding by e ven though that's so **** ed up and this isn't even a poem it's just a ****** up story but if you ever love d me at all, you won't pi ck up the bottle- you wo n't take a shot even if it m eans remembering the tr igger.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
superer ryming poem
A little boy, cried, he died inside. Felt the pain, still no gain. Hate the world,still held tight. Joy wasn't present, karma neither. left the mom, had a fever. Name the oath, say the prayers, Question the rest, salvation, timers. Undefined verification made him see, World, goodbye, XYZ.
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May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015 at 5:49 AM UTC
The boy.
i wrote this and dedicate this for my first love. i miss you. i'm sorry, i'll never be as good as her and i'll never be as pretty as her. i once loved a boy who never (really) loved me back. he was the one who i thought i could spend the rest of my life with. he was the one who i thought he could be my first and my last. but then this girl who i called a  m o n s t e r. the scariest monster she came and she took him away. she turned him into someone i didn't know she changed him into the worst person i've ever known but mainly she was the reason why my first love gave up on me. it was 8 a.m            tuesday            21st of may 2013 the sun shone so bright that morning i got a call it was from him he said he didn't love me anymore the worst part from the call was he wanted a break-up     i said no     i wanted him to stay     he was the reason why i was happy     he was the reason why i stayed strong     he was the reason why i believed in love     he was my  e v e r y t h i n g. he said i'm sorry i can't i hung up the phone i cried i c ried i c r ied i c r i ed i c r i e d i  c r i e d on that day at 3 p.m i texted him the last thing i wanted to do with him we met we laughed we ate lunch we small-talked we were holding hands i even forgot about the break-up i kept falling for him a little bit more. i hugged him and he said     i'm sorry, i think you and me     we can't be together anymore     you deserve someone better     i'm not good enough for you     i'm sorry it was the worst day of my life the first and the worst heartbreak in my life e v e r. 01.10.11 until 21.05.13 598 days of me and him. and i think that the words   the first rush of love   always holds a special place   in our hearts.   the novelty of the feeling   like the first drops of dew   on an untouched leaf   makes it special and unforgettable. are true. however, my mother told me to move on to not linger in the past but cherish its events for you will never get them back. n.e
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Jul 24, 2013
Jul 24, 2013 at 10:12 AM UTC
21.05.13
i wrote this and dedicate this for my first love. i miss you. i'm sorry, i'll never be as good as her and i'll never be as pretty as her. i once loved a boy who never (really) loved me back. he was the one who i thought i could spend the rest of my life with. he was the one who i thought he could be my first and my last. but then this girl who i called a  m o n s t e r. the scariest monster she came and she took him away. she turned him into someone i didn't know she changed him into the worst person i've ever known but mainly she was the reason why my first love gave up on me. it was 8 a.m            tuesday            21st of may 2013 the sun shone so bright that morning i got a call it was from him he said he didn't love me anymore the worst part from the call was he wanted a break-up     i said no     i wanted him to stay     he was the reason why i was happy     he was the reason why i stayed strong     he was the reason why i believed in love     he was my  e v e r y t h i n g. he said i'm sorry i can't i hung up the phone i cried i c ried i c r ied i c r i ed i c r i e d i  c r i e d on that day at 3 p.m i texted him the last thing i wanted to do with him we met we laughed we ate lunch we small-talked we were holding hands i even forgot about the break-up i kept falling for him a little bit more. i hugged him and he said     i'm sorry, i think you and me     we can't be together anymore     you deserve someone better     i'm not good enough for you     i'm sorry it was the worst day of my life the first and the worst heartbreak in my life e v e r. 01.10.11 until 21.05.13 598 days of me and him. and i think that the words   the first rush of love   always holds a special place   in our hearts.   the novelty of the feeling   like the first drops of dew   on an untouched leaf   makes it special and unforgettable. are true. however, my mother told me to move on to not linger in the past but cherish its events for you will never get them back. n.e
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fallen warrior's    dying gaze  .  .  . blurry sun    she braids gold rays gilded strands     grace Avrey’s hair misty     tear-pooled stare  .  .  . Dodoitsu. 7-7-7-5 (26) syllables gv  .2015 Pfc. B.V. ,  a 22 year old mother of a little girl named Avrey was Killed in 2010,  by an IED, RPG attack near Kunar province, (145 military women killed as of April.1.2013 in Afghanistan, Iraq & Kuwait
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May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 at 10:22 AM UTC
braiding gold rays of the sun
The urge to die shouldn't be so intense The thought clouds my mind So thick and so dense Its strange to contemplate my fate My life passing by Like a forgotten date I often wander if I have the power To shoot myself Or leap from a tower I could only imagine the relief it would bring but the grief left behind Would make the devil sing You'r friends would mourn parents cry And all I did was simply die
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 3:13 AM UTC
Suic(D)ied
I look(ed) in the clouds and search(ed) for dragons. they dance(ed) and love(ed) and sang above me. I laugh(ed) and cry(ied) all night, and in day I look(ed) for dragons. Up, up up up in the clouds I look(ed) to where they say(id) I can find my dragons. but now I'm old(er0 and sad(der) and i'm afraid as I look(ed) up that I've lost my dragons.
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Feb 21, 2018
Feb 21, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
losing dragons