http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/Poetryhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/625898Prismatic Prophecy On a canvas of shadowed futures, And self-fulfilling monsters Innocence is often ambushed and tried By societal tradition and inbred bias A reactive repetition of folly and doubt Doomed to everlast … Yet in each pause of breath Each gap in our memories Lies the potential of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/625897In my continuing effort to get this series right, I changed the ordering of the poems. This required me to delete the previous couple of postings - my apologies for those that had made comments on them. I'll post the first of the new set momentarily. -Chrishttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/623466Ok, so I know I've been off the site for a long time. I do miss the push and pull of information and comments on Blogit. I miss the encouragement, and I do genuinely miss reading some wonderful and (in some cases) inspiring writing. For my own part, I've picked up a company of almost 90 Marines....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/604873Nameless shadows Chaotic dreams Chase my thoughts Down gilded streets Plated in gold Fit only for fools Whose unbridled fears Pull others along Their pride gives birth To such darkness veiled Self-deception resides In that evil brood I can see the line stretching Further behind Unquestioning ever...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/604498I walk barefoot Through bloody sand Naked and bared In a foul cleansing My horizon graced By new lots of dust and rubble Despair and Death Moving in on schedule Hopelessness ever Playing host An open season An exclusive soiree Hair blowing hot In sequential shockwaves As warm and comforting As...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/604378Aridness resides At the edge of tired eyes Red and lackluster No periphery Nothing but forward, onward Light is approaching An end of some sort Apathy directs my stare Searching for nothing Heavy-lidded eyes Blink involuntarily And the light is gone...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/604198A coalescence... Hard, soft, naive and knowing - Turbid Kandahar...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/603964Does loss seek in me Fondness in separation? I should be with youhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/603790Conflicting beliefs Bear witness to the Unseen Those apparitions... Enemy's corpus That multiply unthinking Rising once again... Rearmed, emboldened To wage war on my Spirit Tired and thirsty, Dust-caked and wounded A repeating history We have yet to solve...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair_Musings/603753For those that have asked, yes, I'm still on an extended vacation in sunny Afghanistan, though I expect to return soon. My writing over the past 5 months has tended towards prose and fiction, so please allow for a bit lighter fare and some reposts on this blog as I bring myself back up to speed....