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Thanks,
Joe

I am just a good ole boy from the hills of Tennessee.
I am a Viet Nam combat wounded veteran.
Some of my poems deal with the time I spent "in country"
Please feel free to leave an honest comment about my works.
Thanks for stopping in.
In my spare time I'm mostly asleep.

Many thanks to the
Beautiful,
Talented,
And Wonderful
Doolie
for the background.
You are Awesome!!

Doves
by William B. Lynch

I want
the words to flutter
around you and land softly
on your shoulders in peace.
I want you to hear them
tell you of heaven.

Stand still
and they will Gather.

-----///\\-----Please
----///-\\\----Put This
---|||---|||---On Your
---|||---|||---Page If
---|||---|||---You Know
----\\\-///----Someone
-----\\///-----Who Died
------///\-----From
-----///\\\----Cancer

We cherish too, the Poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led,
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies.
- Moina Micheals - 1918
"We Shall Keep the Faith"
Inspired by the poem "In Flanders Field"

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero

Top 10 reasons why I procrastinate:
1.

You'll never see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrists office.

Proud member of the Soggy Bottom Boys

Last seen right now. Member since November 28, 2005.
I'm a hidden phosphate poet for 5,171 comments.
My mood is , and quote is "How do fish know which way to swim?".
I am a 59 year old man from Tennessee (United States)
When I'm not writing, I'm Watching Hearts Beat.
I support the site as a silver member
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I am in the groups DaizeeBlues, The Lonely Hearts Club
I have 5,171 comments, 8 contests, 119 poems

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Golden Threads

Poems I'm focused on

JJ caught a Cat, ran like a Dog

JJ came knocking on my front door
at the rooster crowing hour of 5:00 AM one Thursday

39 lines, 33 comments, October 21. In Humor, Life, Nature, Contest
dusty roads

dead butterflys are caught on the points of
rusty barbwire

16 lines, 35 comments, September 21
J.J. drove a truck and talked trash

22 lines, 55 comments, February 13

My Poetry

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my head hurts.

You shouted at me, yelled really loud
"you are no good"

7 lines, 31 comments, October 28
Eyes of blue heart of cold

It was the frost in his eyes
i saw first

8 lines, 12 comments, October 28
I reserve

I reserve the right to enter said contest with a poem tha ti deem as worthy to enter.
Geee i had better get my my mind clear.

2 lines, 2 comments, October 27
Hopping Birthday

Well ok it time again
time to raise glasses

24 lines, 7 comments, October 26

Guest Book

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Catie Sheeran on November 4

aw...I love your border...he is so cute ...in a grumpy, hate mornings, bed head kind of way...lol yet he sparkles aw...he is just like me lol!
luckyme on November 3

hit and run .

Love the new page....
Heather
Daizee on November 1

Cheers for a Sunday morning and a good cup of coffee
tara wilson on October 21

i love your cup.