• 19 Aug 2008 /  Just Me, Poem, Poem of The Day, religion

    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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  • 17 Aug 2008 /  Poem, Poem of The Day, politics, religion
    From jeff.gaia.com
    The After Life

    I’m dreaming of butchers on their knees
    Abusers and Accusers down and out in the gutters
    While the caring, shy and meek have wings and fly

    Nobody is hungry
    Nobody tired
    None hurt

    Beauty is loved and worshiped
    not used and tossed out

    I’m dreaming of the after life
    That place Atheist mock
    You gonna be there some day
    Watch what you play

    I’m dreaming of  liars trying to explain
    Powerful people to weak to stand
    serving those who never found time to rest

    Nobody is called names
    Nobody in chains
    None is slave

    The small is built up
    while the tall steps down

    I’m dreaming of the after life
    That place Atheist mock
    You’ll find yourself there some day
    Watch what you play

    I’m dreaming of selfish people without
    Those who know it all loose their mind
    While answers for questions are found all around

    Nobody is owned
    Nobody belongs
    No one is lonely

    Trees never loose a branch
    and every egg will hatch

    I’m dreaming of the after life
    That place Atheist mock
    I’m gonna see you there someday
    Watch what you play

    By: Roger Harkness
    The Okcitykid - A Peacefulvet

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    Going forward and backwards I have two judgement poems back to back, I wonder what that means. Yes I do believe in an after life, and I believe that what we do here will determine our standing there.

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  • 16 Aug 2008 /  Poem, Poem of The Day, religion

    Judgment Day Is Just Around The Corner

    Words can kill and you’ve had your fill
    Murdered a hundred and your killing them still
    Telling your lies and stinking air
    Making gray skys
    A storm will come after you

    The condemned and unforgiven
    Live in a land of unliven
    Where snakes hold up and the lizards crawl
    Where the sun don’t shine
    Wall to wall
    Ain’t no living among the unforgiven
    No life at all
    Nothing living

    At high rise of the moon
    Piercing stars hide out of site
    And it all comes out in the moonlight

    In this rocky place
    There is no water anyplace
    There is no rest in this place
    Don’t want to come here
    Don’t want to be here
    You don’t want to go there
    You don’t want to be there
    Don’t want to be in this place

    Make it good before its done to you
    You don’t want what you done
    Done to you
    Better make it good today
    For judgment day is tomorrow

    By Roger Harkness
    The Okcitykid

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    Do you believe in judgment day? It is a big part of my religious background. I question all of my religious background, even this, but I can’t help but believe in judgement. I have to believe that people who take advantage of others will someday, maybe in another place and time, will themselves be taken advantage of as they did to others. I just have to believe that what comes around goes around, that there just has to be justice. Such a belief, though I cannot know for sure if it is true or not, gives us hope, that if we do good, then goodness will be done to us.

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