coyote

"The girl of my dreams is a raven-haired queen, or maybe an auburn-haired princess.She's got bright shining eyes, an aquiline nose, and a smile only slightly pretentious.She has long slender fingers th..."

"The best of worlds do not provide   a cure for defects that I hide;   a cure that has been long denied   the essence that is me. My essence, molten, poured in sand   with defects caused by carele..."

"So many thoughts have passed this way before, but I have not allowed them to invade my door. So, why do they persist in coming back for more when my mind is closed and I am not receiving. I never mea..."

"The moonlight trails I walk now fade behind me... so many paths I've never trod before. Still, they seem to greet me as old friends, and without them I'd be a lonely man. Empty spaces that have ..."

"Where once I was, I long to be again. Where I felt so free, and I liked being me, and knew how it felt to have a friend. Where I am now I'd like to change. Here, I feel so scared, and often quite imp..."

"Reds to my head are blues to my soul.I've crossed the expanse of hot into cold.The trip was impressive, arrival so great.Where I've been I don't know, but I've always been late.Nha Trang 4 Jul 1971 Wr..."

"I still recall the Christmas when I lost my boyhood years. It was a time of growing up and fighting back the tears. I was not home that Christmas day to see what Santa brought, but a Red Cross bag hun..."

"By its very nature it is romantic and inspired. It sends out a message to snuggle ever closer. Thinkers are blessed by the lack of distraction, and dreamers are, now and then, prolific with its abunda..."

"I did not bargain for life, life was given to me.Yet, if I fail to make good and equal life itself,then I am considered to be a failure, and not fit to live.Again, since I did not ask to live, I canno..."

"Do you know from where I've come to reach this far and distant land, whose shores have beckoned me, though how, and why, I do not understand. Why such a people needing help have come to greet me as a ..."

"Minute thoughts recorded on the tablets of time,thinking love graces music in a world out of rhyme.In a system perfected to envelope all wrongwhen cast in the wasteland of beauty and song.I wander and..."

"Fields green and fresh...nature is ever at work.Slender stalks of growing things.A blue sky over head, the good earth below.Far away...no street sounds, no smog, no campus riots...Nothing to remind yo..."

"My days I sit and plan...my love for you, the end for man.My nights alone I sleep; my thoughts of you, and to myself I keep.My love will never recognize the burning in my eyes.I can only soliloquize w..."

"You wanted me to be a hero and go off to win the war.You wanted me to be a hero, but you didn't know what for.So I became a hero and now I'm rolling through the door,'cause this hero's got no arms or..."

"They say the war is over, they say the time is now.They say we all can come back home, we say we don't know how.We sat so long in shadows, afraid to see the sun.So many times back in the past the prom..."

"In wondrous spirit I entered onto life's earth bound plain. For eighteen years I learned of life's unending truths. Youthful running, burning candles...sucking up the flame; and never seeing past the ..."

"We thought the vets had all come backto live in principality.Instead we find that many vetscannot discern reality.We thought the vets would all be home,inside their homes with family.Without the need ..."

"Somehow they caught me after the ambush...I guess I wasn't lookin'.I know I didn't belong in the grass by myself...I should have been bookin'.Now I'm sittin' here in a bamboo chair with the sun straig..."

"What gives you cause to say I've changed...in any direction? You have known me again but a short time. Who is to say our first re-meeting was not a show...a put-on I tried to correct for my having bee..."

"Brass rings don't fit my finger, and that ride won't fit my style... I'll stand on the sidelines and watch for a while. Play it safe and fake my story...hum the parts that I can't sing. I don't have t..."

"When a raging war nears my mind I cannot gain peace by standing by, but I would dishonor myself by joining--I run.Drums beat steady and the bugle taps.I stop to rest; not long, for war will not end th..."

"As I gaze into the distance, and center my sights, I try to get a sharp visual... Damn these cloudy nights. Then there's movement, just a hair off to the right, so I squeeze the trigger, and my muzzl..."

"There was a helicopter crash today. It was only about 150 feet off my post. There were four men aboard--all gone. It wasn't burning when I started, but an explosion went off as I neared. When I got t..."

"Lonely once, and lonely twice, my realm of lovers dwindling. Caught stealing kisses from a third, but was it really swindling? Like candies taken from a box, not all are so enchanting. I sample, nibb..."

"Song CategoryYVONNEShe gives me what she can, 'cause she knows that I'm a man--she's that way...She could never say goodbye, if she does I know she'll cry--she's that way.When I'm with that little gir..."

"2 hearts happy 2 hearts beating 1 heart loving 1 repeating 2 young lovers 2 hearts leading 2 each other 2 hearts beating. Written August 29th, 2001 © on Aug 28 2001 05:06 PM PST   0 • 8"

"A Song I wrote about life on the road, and my brother.1.    I realize I never got that far.      I'm living in this empty back street bar.      Oh the music and the madness, and the songs reflect the ..."

"A song about one way out. He's living on the brink of a life he never wanted. He's haunted by a memory of things he's seen and done. But most of all a government that promised him a future, and a cou..."

"Old girlfriend from years ago suddenly appearing just to say, 'Hi', And it's been over 30 years since our informal goodbye. At least it's on the Internet, and she found my name (she hopes), on some si..."

"We stopped and looked. Some for the first time... all for the last time. Perhaps we never paid that much attention to skyscrapers, or even to New York. Now the whole world is paying attention. We are ..."

"I was watching the world as the clock ticked by. The picture was clear, not a cloud in the sky. Just enjoying the scenery that filled up my eyes-- then somebody changed the channel. Just a second ago..."

"Can you feel it, can you move? Does your mind reflect this motion? Will you give what you receive or does your heart cast out emotion? Is it simple to survive; can you tell yourself to forget? Did you..."

"Cigarettes glow and liquor flows.Noisy crowd and talk out loud.Ripple cards and drunken bards.Money flies and loser cries.Burning light into the night,bringing song from doing wrong...America, I've co..."

"Claws on my heart...Doubt in my soul...Tears in my eyes...Love in my head...Gone in a letter.Tuy Hoa 4 Feb 1970 Written September 19th, 2001 © on Sep 19 2001 12:00 PM PST   18 • 0 • 1"

"It's falling.It's very clear to me...the rain.Nha Trang 23 May 1971 Written September 19th, 2001 © on Sep 19 2001 12:04 PM PST   0 • 12"

"Don't talk to me--don't say the words you always say. Don't talk to me. Don't make it sound like I'm giving in...you know, inside, that you can't win, but you feel that you must try again. Don't talk ..."

"Ease my mind; tell me I'm safe.Free me, hold my hand. The shake remains a shake and peace is not conceived.I'm tired of walking into stone walls...dead ends of life.Feels the ends of my life--plain to..."

"My existence I perceive to have some meaning...I cannot guess. My outlook on life, similar to death. I agree it's existence...it's meaning I cannot guess. What are the forces surrounding the basis for..."

"I am left alone.My thoughts cannot be shared with a void.Thoughts need to be expressed, known, felt, spoken, understood.Do you speak to the walls, to the floors, to the open door?Open door! How...who ..."

"God is my hero. He didn't conceive me, but he created the idea and fact that I was to live. For millions of years He has been the originator. I cannot say he planted the first seed, but He created tem..."

"Love is not my mind nor motion. Love has left me standing cold.Love has not been kind or pleasing. Love will watch me growing old.Hate has been my sole redemption. Hate and I have made good friends.Ha..."

"In '68 I got my orders--hello Vietnam, goodbye North Dakota.With eighteen months of surf and sandat Tuy Hoa the life was grand.I worked the nights and counted days,and then an added six month phase.Fr..."

"But the snow...the snow. When it blew in last week I thought it wouldn't last the night. It fell for over four hours and stopped at about 9 inches. It wasn't even all that cold, but I only made snow ..."

"This very morning, when I awoke, I thought someone had played a joke. I checked the pot, it was bone dry. I checked the pantry and started to cry... No coffee! So I got dressed for work, real slow...."

"Like a sun-drenched dawn she brightens my day, and azurine eyes sparkle, and hint at love unusual. Igniting flights of fantasy... being together, far away, and leaving me breathless... with thoughts ..."

"Sitting alone in the dark--and waiting. Will she understand when I tell her...when I try to explain? Probably she will, for she knows my weaknesses and my foibles. That won't make it any easier to adm..."

"As soon as I asked the question, I remembered where I put the fuses--duh! Why does this always happen-- not so much that it happens, I guess, but why at such inopportune times as this where she is s..."

"We feed each other. We need each other. I am not ambitious, but I do have habits to fulfill. She has only one habit--me, but she is very ambitious, and conscientious, and dedicated to family. If I a..."

"Okay, maybe the water thing wasn't strictly my fault, but it sure made me look pretty dumb. That's what this is really all about, looking dumb at the wrong moments. I don't need any help in that dep..."

"found a lot to drink-- found a lot to smoke-- found a lot to pop-- and only a year left to go. lost twenty pounds-- lost my virginity-- lost a stripe-- and only six months to go. lost another partne..."

"Such a long time ago when we went to war   across the beautiful South China Sea. We flew into the fray with conscience yet unborne;   my ticket, flight F2C3. Our duties, quite different from states..."

"...and when you leave, man...you know, to go home? You know you aren't even halfway there, man, until you hit that doorstep, ring that bell, and someone says, "Hey man, you're home". You know what ..."