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Journals by celticwarrior, by newest first

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  • Battered Christ of Hai Lang
    Don, yes I remember it: the night we hunkered in our holes by the schoolhouse on the fringes of Hai Lang, the crack of AK-47s from inside the town, the rattle of the M-16s and M-60s shooting back, the screeching rain of our artillery that wrecked the town all night. And when morning came on the third day o
    by celticwarrior on Jun 15 3:33 PM, In Sad, Spiritual, War.  200 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Burning Cat
    I dreamed a dream about a cat who purred and sniffed around a fire some kids had set behind the school. The fire danced in her eyes and she snuggled close to it as it reached up to the sky. Run away little cat, I told her via telepathy. She never heard me or maybe she did and didn't want to run bec
    by celticwarrior on May 14 10:20 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Oralia
    Oralia, they say you are golden, / that you brighten the darkness with light, / that you scatter the seeds of surrender, / that you wilt all deceit with your sight; / they say you are just and forgiving, / that you're constant and warm like the sun / and that just like the springtime, you're hopeful / though t
    by celticwarrior on Apr 3 1:07 PM, 200 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Crazy
    "You're that's what I love about you," said the CEO who I thought had come to fire me. "That's what we hired you for -- crazy as a shit-house rat." So I don't have to worry about packing up my stuff. In fact I'm taking a few months off to visit Ireland. I hear it's nice this time of year.
    by celticwarrior on Mar 23 6:23 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • French Literature
    When the German Army looking for Private Schmidt, the innkeeper, Madame Levesque, told the captain that Schmidt was hiding in the barn. The Germans surrounded the barn and called out in German the equivalent of "Come out with your hands up, schweinhund; don't make us come in there and get you." Schmidt didn't say nu
    by celticwarrior on Mar 19 7:33 AM, 200 words. → 3 comments, Add one?
  • Excalibur
    Drawn from stone and birthed in fire by gabhans, thou son of flame, illumine these dark days, bring justice to these desolated and do our hopes and freedoms high upraise. The sun, which shone so faintly through this winter, in thee hath resurrected hope once more – be healer now to broken bough and splinter; unbin
    by celticwarrior on Mar 7 7:33 PM, 200 words. → 4 comments, Add one?
  • The Ants of Cu Chi
    We are camped on top of ants. There are ants everywhere. They crawl up my boots and pant legs. They clamber over my rucksack and M-16. They are all over my and C-rations. They insinuate themselves between the sheets of my letters from home. They will not let me sleep. They invade my dreams. Ants. The ants are everyw
    by celticwarrior on Mar 7 12:15 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Climbing Dinosaurs
    We climbed the spine of Stegosaurus Mountain when you said you had the day off work and wanted to come with me and Tom and Dave. We said OK but that we weren't going to slow down for you. You had to keep up, we said, it was "march or die". On the way past the Army base you said that you could never forgive the man
    by celticwarrior on Mar 7 12:10 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Beside The Floating Garden
    Down by the floating garden my love and I would when the springtime birds were singing and the flowers blossomed sweet, when the days were soft and glistening, when the sun was young and mild, when the river whispered softly, when our love was free and wild. Beside the floating garden there I bid my love adieu as
    by celticwarrior on Mar 4 10:09 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • Mansion
    This is the that I don't live in -- except for when my dreams place me there. It's on a hill among the foothills of a mountain range I've never visited. Somehow, the place is always under construction and I have a key to it no matter how long I've been away. Who lives with me varies according to the whim of the pl
    by celticwarrior on Mar 3 10:14 AM, 100 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Outlaw Shindig
    Bart and Dead-eye where the meet would be this year. I didn't care but Spider said we ought to have it down by Nogales, if we could avoid the Federales and the local scorpions. Squint and Skeeter said amen to that which brought up the issue of whose turn it was to buy the beer. I'll buy the beer, I said, might as we
    by celticwarrior on Mar 2 6:44 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Psalm For Driving
    I don't think I should drive anymore. I can't judge so I keep getting in wrecks. I'm afraid some day I will accidentally hurt someone. Our car insurance rates are soaring. Still, my sweet wife continues to love me. She speaks calmly and without despair. If I can no longer drive, she will not hold that against me. W
    by celticwarrior on Mar 1 3:45 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Marian Apparition
    Let it be done unto as you have said, said the maiden. Her hair the hue of ravens, shone in the perfect light. Her garments covered perfect breast and thigh. Her obediant eyes flooded with intelligence and grace. Word became flesh and came to dwell amongst us. I submit to what I cannot understand. I understand becau
    by celticwarrior on Feb 28 9:15 AM, 100 words. → 1 comment, Add one?
  • Waiting For Rafael
    Because it was Rafael's birthday, we decided to meet at El Payaso for a few drinks. It's a scrubby neighborhood place that's usually almost empty. I sat down in a booth with Rafael's cousin Miguel to wait for the other guys. Miguel's an accountant. Victor came -- he's a psychologist and Jewish and the only other gu
    by celticwarrior on Feb 27 10:22 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • We Watch The Show
    VC and NVA are to hit the Special Forces Camp at Song Bui sometime tonight. They have 120mm mortars, heavy machine guns. The NVA are well-armed with AK-47s and RPGs. The VC are more lightly armed but there are at least four-thousand of them. We've got six Special Forces troops and ninety-eight Montagnards. Looks
    by celticwarrior on Feb 26 1:35 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Soft
    as soft as snow upon the hills, as soft as mist upon the lake, as soft as daffodils rising from the waking land, as soft as a mother with her child, as soft as dawn, as soft as dew upon the heather fields, as soft as lambs, as soft as down, as soft as the sound of gentle rain, as soft as love, as soft as our firs
    by celticwarrior on Feb 26 11:38 AM, 100 words. → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Last Night At Anzio
    Last night at before the Tigers of the Herman Goering Division rolled down on us, I covered our foxhole with our rubber ponchos and made medicine for the coming fight. I ground huckleberry leaves with willow bark with my molcajete and tejolate, mixed it with the rain water in my canteen and drank it as I sang battle
    by celticwarrior on Feb 24 11:10 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Insomnia
    Some nights are like this: Lying in when sleep won't come and, despite all the nocturnal rituals, my mind races behind closed eyelids. Shh, quiet child -- but the brain chatters on and on and on and on, clatters like boxcars down the railroad line. In the darkness, the snow geese fly, silhouetted against the crystal
    by celticwarrior on Feb 23 7:36 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Chaplain
    My first day on the as chaplain in this nursing home and I don't know where anything is, who anyone is or what they expect me to do. There is a funeral at 10:00 and I have to meet with the family before then but there are no clocks and no one can tell me where the meeting and funeral service are to be. At the same
    by celticwarrior on Feb 22 8:50 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Battleground
    Down by the I walked among the debris of the nineteenth century, through the detritus of war and flood. The passage of time smelled like rotting fish and the heavy Southern air weighed me down. You brought plastic flowers from the heart of China to commemorate the battle. A blue heron flew toward New Orleans. The r
    by celticwarrior on Feb 21 10:07 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Midges
    The midges were biting last night, packed themselves eyelids, nostrils, ear canals and drilled for blood. In the barn that doubled as theatre, we were packed to the rafters with the newly dead -- awkward in their Sunday best and unaccustomed to the formality. The children broke my heart. I screamed to make those
    by celticwarrior on Feb 20 7:26 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • In The Hall of Mirrors
    At Versailles last in the Hall of Mirrors management arraigned it so that light refracted upon light and reflected eternity in all directions -- a cheap trick really. Anyway,I saw the Days and Nights of Brahma stretching that moment to forever, encapsulated in that unique conceit. I don't believe anything unless
    by celticwarrior on Feb 19 2:16 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Aubade In Differing Locales
    I have seen when the sun climbed over the Superstition Mountains like an ascending god, when wind rushed over the desert like a gasp and the palo verde tree shivered naked in the light. I have seen mornings when the great city stirred, and the rain-slick streets fractured light into its constituents -- rainbow oil
    by celticwarrior on Feb 18 11:47 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Mission To Caracas
    After I rolled through the Israeli in my jeep with no markings, I proceeded to Caracas for the conference. I went to a cantina afterward and was late getting home. My wife was angry. I made excuses she didn't buy. In the morning great flocks of birds scattered a bright blue sky. I watched a mixed flight of herons,
    by celticwarrior on Feb 17 6:57 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Letter From Spy Academy
    Last night was an exhausting of orientation, indoctrination and introduction to the complexities of fuel tank design. We were issued our clothing and our weapons and were called to attend a formal diplomatic dinner. I hold my liquor well and my vocabulary and exposure to foreign languages held me in good stead. I l
    by celticwarrior on Feb 16 9:24 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Dreams Past Nineteen
    If I were nineteen would I make the same mistakes -- jump from planes, go to war - go to war again? Would I love the same women, do the same work, study the same things, go the same places in my dreams? Of course, I wouldn't -- I would have different, maybe not better, dreams.
    by celticwarrior on Feb 15 5:51 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • The Rain Came
    Nothing on or at the movies last night that I'd care to see. Reading grew tedious as I had to backtrack to understand what I had read. I went to bed instead. No dreams available to instruct or entertain. Outside, the rain came.
    by celticwarrior on Feb 14 10:05 AM, → 2 comments, Add one?
  • Raging Through Ohio
    Last night the came and woke me up and dragged me halfway across the state with them. We went back and forth through time and in and out of other people's dreams and generally caused havoc everywhere we went. I tell you Ohio's not seen the like of this since John Hunt Morgan's raid.
    by celticwarrior on Feb 13 5:14 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Dr. Snow
    Dr. is a low-key genius. He keeps his white hair short and wears dockers,deck shoes and never wears a tie, His office at corporate is a cubicle like everybody else. He speaks softly, like his name and peers at you behind crystal frames with eyes like blue diamonds. He sees -- He understands -- everything.
    by celticwarrior on Feb 12 8:51 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • My Lord of Sleep
    My Lord of admit me to your kingdom of the deaf, the mute, the blind. Guide me past what substance says to me of the universe, past languages, past all conceits and premises. Before the world there was the word. Before the word there are you alone.
    by celticwarrior on Feb 11 10:46 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • After School
    Although I'm not much into last night I went to my high school get-together to see who had survived into their 60's. There was Tom the retired chemistry teacher and Arnold the mattress king from Arkansas and Dave the recluse Jean Genet who wouldn't talk to anybody, the few football players who dodged cancer and hear
    by celticwarrior on Feb 10 7:24 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • After School
    Although I'm not much into last night I went to my high school get-together to see who had survived into their 60's. There was Tom the retired chemistry teacher and Arnold the mattress king from Arkansas and Dave the recluse Jean Genet who wouldn't talk to anybody, the few football players who dodged cancer and he
    by celticwarrior on Feb 10 7:21 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • The Best I Can
    I don't know how I can continue this -- serving as a major in the 47th Scout Regiment in Baghdad by night and being a retired old man by day. My wife's had enough of this and the Army's suspicious that I might not be a real major and that I may be a tad bit older than thirty-five. "I'm doing the best I can." I tell
    by celticwarrior on Feb 9 10:15 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • May Morning At The LZ (Adult Content)
    Bravo Company's in the shit again. So we got our and moved to the LZ to wait for the choppers to take us to the fight. In that merry, merry month of May the day was blue as blueberries in that cream sky. Beyond the barbed wire the geckos shrieked "fuck you -fuck you - fuck you".
    by celticwarrior on Feb 8 10:26 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • When The Moon Roared
    Do you when I asked you if you wanted to kiss me when we were both in our twenties and the moon roared? The old V W was on its last legs then, the tires bald, the oil pump like an old man's heart, was sputtering. We played hide-and-seek amongst the ancient temples beside the college green all summer. Do you r
    by celticwarrior on Feb 7 9:43 AM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
  • Air Assault --(Mild adult content)
    by celticwarrior on Feb 6 5:56 PM, In Mild adult content.  100 words. → Make first comment?
  • My New Therapist
    So I went to see my new therapist. When she came to greet at forty-five minutes after our scheduled time, I asked "Is this what I can expect with you?" "No it isn't," she said but she didn't apologize. She took me to her office, but a patient and therapist were already there. She took me to another office -- sam
    by celticwarrior on Feb 4 10:05 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • The Free Workshop
    Let me see if I understand. I'm here for the workshop. This is the workshop. And it's free? There is no charge. This is a community service. And you're not going to try to sell me something? No sir. And now that you're comfortably seated, take a deep breath -- that's right -- and listen to the sound of my vo
    by celticwarrior on Feb 3 10:33 AM, In Mundo bizarro.  300 words. → Make first comment?
  • Toast and Tea With Kim Jung Il
    Kim Jung is a friend of mine. We met for tea and toast today in his pleasure dome in Pyongyang. The tea was good but the toast was made of molded rye bread which gave it an odd taste and a bit of psychedelic afterglow. We watched the Superbowl on his slim-screen TV. He had trouble with the team names thinking the
    by celticwarrior on Feb 2 10:42 AM, 200 words. → Make first comment?
  • Snow Tomatoes
    Snow Send me snow tomatoes gathered at dawn from the patch on your lawn where they stand in rows. Gather dawn's light from your garden as snow drifts down to show that winter's in flight. Stand in the patch that you dug in the ice. You never thought twice about winter's wrath. Please box them in rows and displa
    by celticwarrior on Feb 1 3:17 PM, 100 words. → Make first comment?
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