Wilderness

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The battle was a tangled mess,

hopeless, no victor from the start.

The first day went from chills to heat,

lifeless, formless, foul Wilderness

chosen, egos of enemies

allowing neither to detach,

allowing neither final touch.

So war waged painful, wretched, free

Till second day, a flush of rage,

man crying for water, water,

dying, dysentery, slaughter

till both foes rested night, turned page,

then, next day, the enemy left

as one commander of courage

saw no cause for further pillage

till next bleak battle, and the next.

Eric M. Vogt, Copyright 2013

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  1. Michele Seminara

     /  February 10, 2013

    Great ending!

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  2. kalabalu

     /  February 6, 2013

    Battles won with courage indeed

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  3. rawencounterswithestella

     /  February 4, 2013

    Great great GREAT!!!! Keep it up, Eric!! :)

    Reply

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    Eric M. Vogt retired from the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons as an educator and law enforcement officer in 2011. He has published the poems "To Home" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1985), "An Elven Princess" (Minas Tirith Evening Star, 1986), "Simpleness" (American Poetry Anthology, 1987), "Within a Dream" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008), "The Mountain" (Taj Mahal Review, 2008) and "Last Letter to Wilson's Creek" (The Ozarks Mountaineer, 2012) Eric published a non-fiction work entitled "Terrorists in Prison: The Challenge Facing Corrections" (Inside Homeland Security, 2007). In 2013 he published his first collection of poems entitled LETTERS TO LARA. His second poetry collection, PATHS AND POOLS TO PONDER, soon followed. Also in 2013, Eric published a non-fiction book entitled TERRORISTS WITHIN OUR WALLS The Principles of Correctional Counterterrorism (all books above available on amazon.com and its affiliates across the world as well as barnesandnoble.com). He resides in Missouri with his two Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Sissy Longstreet and Jack the Crackerjack Welshman.

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