From Mark’s Picasa Web Album
THE AFTER LOOKOUT
I stand back aft
Not knowing what time it is
Not knowing where I’m at
Its been some time
I don’t know how much further
Don’t know when I last
Had a chance
To rest
My insides empty in the dark of night
God is here
I’m scared to death
Ice flows down my back
Falling to the deck
I can only think of three words to say
God help me
By: Roger Harkness
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This is a real life poem about my life in the Navy. In a three section watch, you would stand watch for 4 hours and be off for 8 hours before you stood watch again, however, you also worked regular work days. There would be special details (replenishment at sea and helo ops were the most common). You would have general quarter drills and fire drills. These things could happen at anytime. So basically, you could go a long time without sleep and or only time to take short naps, but either way, you get real tired. The first thing that goes is your sense of time. Fifteen minutes or fifteen hours, you can’t tell the difference. Yes it is weird. Well anyways, in this poem, I was standing after lookout in the black of night trying to do mathematical equations in my head and couldn’t figure out simple math like four plus four minus four and it was very disturbing, crying out for help into the darkness, it felt like my creator was there.
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From Midnight Muse
JUST 24 LINES
Why only 24 lines
How do you tell the times in just 24 lines
Is the word of song so sad that you only bear to read
24 lines
After 24 we are old and a bore
Reading so much can make you sore
How do I describe a tree
Bird in flight
or the sea
In just 24 lines
Commercialism sound bites raised we
Any more is just an impossibility
Feelings flow pages and pages
Explain the pain
Excitement
The insane
But you want only 24 lines
How boring you must be
Such an existence for me
Would be insanity
By: Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid A Peaceful Vet
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Have you ever been asked to submit a poem to a poetry contest and so you sit down and write your poem and try to submit it, but it is rejected because it is more than 24 lines, well I did and it irritated me, so I wrote this in response and submitted it, I don’t think it won.
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I destroyed my blog AGAIN. For the third time now I find I am redoing it. But I think I found a nicer theme.
They say to become a popular blogger, you have to blog on just one thing, but you see, there are two kinds of people; those who are technical and notice all the little details but fail to see the big picture; and then there are people like me who see the big picture but fails to notice all the details.
In an attempt to be technical I have decided that this is a PRP blog. While that might sound technical, the truth is, this blog is about Poetry, Religion and People and I would say, that about covers the big picture.
So as I jump around testing linux, sharing gardening tips and telling love stories, complaining about the Bush administration and the do nothing Democrats. Sharing my poem of the day. Wordpress is very good allowing you to use catagories and providing a really good search engine for your blog. So if you came here looking for something in particular, you might just find it here, but you’ll have to look for it and hopefully it will be there and I won’t destroy this blog again.
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