watching the submariners
silently in the airport
lobby
seeing them together,
separate,
within their own thoughts
not needing to have words
spoken
not needing to speak
some highly social but
others in a sense like he
was
comfortable separate
within his own thoughts
not need to have words
spoken
not needing to speak
================
September 14, 2018
in a sense like he was
the crew of the USS Florida – in the Bangor Airport September
12, 2018
USS Guavina – one of the vessels my dad served on 1950-1952
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edited
December 29, 2015
Demons – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
Did You Hear
Her Cry – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
The Crash – v2
edited
December 18, 2015
The Submariner
– v2
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Meticulous –
v2
&
edited
December 18, 2015
Adam Asked –
v2
==========
edited October
22, 2015
Did you brace
for impact – v2
edicted
October 22, 2015
Mile Marker 19
– v8
(editing
original)
edited October
5, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v9
(editing
version 5)
&
edited October
3, 2015
Why on this
day – v3
(editing
original)
edited October
19, 2014
Why on this
day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this
day
“My Prayers
Weekend!”
“Next Day
Stretch”
draft a note
to God
about a day
when you struggled
with a big
question
for June 29,
2014
read June 30,
2014
&
edited June
27, 2014
A vivid memory
– v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20
(NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
“In Dark
Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder
for June 26,
2014
read June 27,
2014
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
for March and
April 2014
&
edited August
15, 2015
Here it comes
– v3
(editing
version 2)
edited January
12, 2014
Here it comes
– v2
January 12,
2014
Here it comes
January 12,
2014
I am not ready
(conversation
by Dean McKenney about his
bad car
accident 40 years ago)
January 12,
2014
an accounting
to God
January 12,
2014
Honor their
walk
Romans
14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible
Study
led by Steve
Curtis
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12,
2014
&
edited August
4, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v8
(editing
version 5)
edited
May 9, 2015
Ten
Years – v2
April
23, 2004
Ten
Years
see
also
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edited
January 11, 2014
Mile
Marker 19 – v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile
Marker 19 – v6
(editing
version 3)
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edited March
21, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v7
(editing
version 5)
edited
December 3, 2014
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
November 9, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited
October 24, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited
October 11, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap”
edited
February 11, 2014
“hiding in the
ice – v9”
edited January
4, 2014
“hiding in the
ice – v8”
(editing
version 5)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding in the
ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding in the
ice – v6”
(editing
version 2)
Edited
September 25, 2013
“hiding in the
ice – v5”
Edited August
2, 2013
“hiding in the
ice – v4”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“hiding in the
ice – v3”
Edited
December 21, 2012
“hiding in the
ice – v2”
December 21,
2012
“hiding in the
ice”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Animated /
Evil – v2”
December 20,
2012
“Animated /
Evil”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A latent
danger – v3”
December 20,
2012
“A latent
danger – v2”
“A latent
danger”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Smiling in
the freezing – v2”
December 20,
2012
“Smiling in
the freezing”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A frozen trap
– v2
December 20,
2012
“A frozen
trap”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“was the road
innocent – v2”
December 21,
2012
“was the road
innocent”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Did the ice
know – v2”
December 20,
2012
“Did the ice
know”
series of new
poems
also about my
father’s death,
after
reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy Lanes”,
(see more of
his poems at:
and exchanging
emails with him about that poem
and my
father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited August
22, 2013
“eyes not shut
– v2”
August 22,
2013
“eyes not
shut”
a poem in
conjured after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new
poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v3”
editing
the original again
inspired
by reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly
poetry reading,
at
the Suncook Senior Center
September
10, 2012
&
edited
June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile
Marker 19 – v2”
&
October 2,
2011
Did You Hear
Her Cry
after
rereading earlier poem,
“Mile Marker
19”
&
Edited April
23, 2013
“No Life in
Your Eyes – v2”
February 11,
2011
“No Life in
Your Eyes”
remembering
the 20th anniversary
of my father’s
death, February 14, 1991
written at the
House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11,
2011
&
new poem
February 11, 2014
Where you are
scattered
posted March
22, 2004
written
2/26/2001
Adam Asked
posted March
18, 2004
written March
6, 2001
Meticulous
posted March
17, 2004
written
3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The Submariner
posted
February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted
February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Home Again”
&
posted March
10, 2004
written April
3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted
February 14, 2004
(the 13th
anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written June
18, 2001 10:54pm
The Crash
about
my father's death
February
14, 1991
and my car
accident
the day I
applied to law school
&
posted
February 8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile
Marker 19”
posted
to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as
the 15th poem put on
the site -
about
my father’s fatal car accident
near
Mile Marker 19
on
the Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester,
NH
February
14, 1991 at 7:02pm
Valentine’s
Day
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