https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/Haikus and short poems to keep up my creative energies for longer pieces. I hope you enjoy them!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/604874Surrendered and damned In great gouts of smoke, fire, ash, The spirit destroyed...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/604499To see those gardens So antibotanical Bristling and dirty Bone and blood alive Animated against will Is to look upon The hastened effect A gaze from the mask of Death Precipitated...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/604379No touch to speak of... Physical human contact Five months and counting... Clock hands in morass... Do you ache the way I do Yearning for morrow?...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/604197Day in and day out Everything is the same Day in and day out...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/603963Choking in absence... Parched is the infinite tongue I would drink of you...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/603752Deserted dreaming Throws into sharp clarity Life in negative...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/573727I apologize for not writing much in the past month. I'm taking a team of Marines into Afghanistan soon, and I'll be gone for several months at the least. I can't say where exactly, but I've been led to believe that we may have some internet access there. To that end, I'll leave my accounts active...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/569965To touch cool metal... Anxious round begging release The chamber is locked...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/568804Much to accomplish Not nearly enough time to I'll relax instead...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Marineair/568499Warm rain or stiff breeze Microburst of sensation The storm is coming...