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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.
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"
last night and then this morning
the last leaves of autumn fell,
finding a grave in the imprint
of stranger's feet-
shallow as it was, they seemed content
the leaves look more like wings,
imaginary things
that carry with them, the first cold breath of winter
wind wrestled with the margins of a book
left outside the local coffee shop-
someone had forgotten it, maybe
they had no more use for it
to think about the nights
spent in the anguish of absence
when a book is the only sanctuary
in loneliness
this is the way
to make amends with shadows,
to offer a truce to the past
on some nights
the book we read
is the one we're writing
and memory and wind
aren't always so comforting
Amberlee Carter
Top 10 reasons why I procrastinate:
1.
Proud member of the Soggy Bottom Boys
Please read and comment.
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.
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"
last night and then this morning
the last leaves of autumn fell,
finding a grave in the imprint
of stranger's feet-
shallow as it was, they seemed content
the leaves look more like wings,
imaginary things
that carry with them, the first cold breath of winter
wind wrestled with the margins of a book
left outside the local coffee shop-
someone had forgotten it, maybe
they had no more use for it
to think about the nights
spent in the anguish of absence
when a book is the only sanctuary
in loneliness
this is the way
to make amends with shadows,
to offer a truce to the past
on some nights
the book we read
is the one we're writing
and memory and wind
aren't always so comforting
Amberlee Carter
Top 10 reasons why I procrastinate:
1.
Proud member of the Soggy Bottom Boys
- Last seen right now. Member since November 28, 2005.
- I'm a hidden phosphate poet for 5,307 comments.
- My mood is
, and quote is "I used to be indecisive, now I’m not so sure.". - I am a 59 year old man from Tennessee (United States)
- When I'm not writing, I'm Watching Hearts Beat.
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(27)- I am in the groups DaizeeBlues, The Lonely Hearts Club
- I have 5,307 comments, 8 contests, 117 poems
Poems I'm focused on
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JJ came knocking on my front door
at the rooster crowing hour of 5:00 AM one Thursday -
dead butterflys are caught on the points of
rusty barbwire16 lines, 35 comments, September 21 -
22 lines, 55 comments, February 13
My Poetry
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Break into my heart
quickly, while the fences are down10 lines, 33 comments, November 20 -
You shouted at me, yelled really loud
"you are no good"7 lines, 33 comments, October 28 -
It was the frost in his eyes
i saw first8 lines, 16 comments, October 28
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stef-witt on November 9Soggy Bottom Boys... I hope you're not really a man of constant sorrow?
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Catie Sheeran on November 4aw...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
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