War

I was just an innocent boy, so blinded to the reality of the world
Full of excitment,
When I...

This poem is a fictional, dramatic story, that takes place in a dystopian realm elaborated through the use...

The children of the war torn,let them have some peace
The joys they'll have inside their hearts,...

Ode to Vietnamese Coffee

Vietnam has the best coffee
In the damn world
Just perfect...

John (Jake) Cosmos
Novelist, Poet,
Foreign Service Officer, (US Diplomat) retired
PSC...

Instrument to be played
no strings attached

Neither trumpet nor a cornet
nor a...

Discarded shells and charcoal spew midst dying blades,
Tremendous bellow rips the silence as cruel...

I won’t war against your mind, nor your body
I need you in good physical and spiritually conditions...

My pen writes,..Its an all out war.

My mind for the right.
Crying, bloodshed and gore....

My Isis bride.
came for blood,
She no longer wishes
to fight the jihad.
grown...

Crimson pools, unbridled desolation,
Succumbed to thief in the night evoke devastation.
...

I heard a flutter within me
An intruder, I ask it to leave
In response, it grows, his...

The hate of my enemies is…
so insanely potent as to be
almost…

sensual

They...

Gas cans drop,
Breathing starts to stop.
Bullets whistled through the sky,
Heroes...

Throughout our bloody history
soldiers have died
in many uniforms
and guises

...

In the play of life
death withdrew
it apologized
it was the hero
it became...

I could rid you off all of your rats,

But you would never compensate.

So, I chose your...