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In A Name

The truth of death is death But it’s all in how you took your last breath What led you down that white light path? So, the truth of death is not such simple math When there’s a badge and a gun involved I continue to …

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black lives matter, literature, poems, Poetry, police brutality, social justicehttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on In A NameDecember 14, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

John Lennon

A tribute from my first poetry collection He said give peace a chance, he was met with warWhere nobody knew, what they were fighting forThey spilt their blood on the ground He was a friend to all, an enemy to noneNot even the person, that …

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Beatles, John Lennon, literature, poems, Poetry, pop culturehttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on John LennonDecember 8, 2018February 1, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Until Destruction Do Us Part

A poem from On Driftwood and Oblivion We didn’t even know it would end this wayWhen it was all said and doneI guess we thought it would be okA sort of a twisted kind of fun You called me just a bad fantasyBut what are …

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Artificial intelligence, economics, extinction, literature, poems, Poetry, politics, religion, sciencehttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Until Destruction Do Us PartDecember 6, 2018February 1, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

A Lion and the Mountain

A poem from On Driftwood and Oblivion A Lion sauntered down off Mt. KilimanjaroNeither thinking of yesterday nor of tomorrowShaking the dust off a clear and hot December ‘mornAnother dry season for the hoofed ones to be born Then there were two footed, but not …

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africa, global warming, lions, literature, nature, poems, Poetryhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on A Lion and the MountainDecember 4, 2018January 31, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Cluster, F**k

Oh, cluster period don’t come around Looking inside my brain to pick upon Your sneaky dagger, strikes without a sound Eye pierced through, all rationality gone For a pain so great, no sound of retreat Wait for the end, but no receding tide But except …

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cluster headaches, headaches, literature, pain, poems, Poetryhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Cluster, F**kNovember 28, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Six Feet Over

A poem from On Driftwood and Oblivion The nor’easter never stops blowingAcross the dunes of midnight’s lonelinessThe waves bring forth life, and death flowingPulling on the fading heart’s emptinessWashing six feet over… Read more in the collection, On Driftwood and Oblivion

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Books, literature, outer banks, poems, Poetryhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Six Feet OverNovember 9, 2018February 2, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Fog Becomes Form

A poetry snippet from my collection available on Amazon. Thank you for supporting poets!

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literature, poems, Poetryhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Fog Becomes FormOctober 23, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Across the Delta and into the Jungle

The tide of our fathers, violent and flowing How you tried not to lead us so astray The napalmed memories, forever glowing Haunt the dawn’s misty start to each new day   Life’s redeeming waters, flowing on the delta patrol How the sweat beaded, endlessly …

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ghosts, literature, poems, Poetry, spirits, Vietnam, warhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Across the Delta and into the JungleOctober 8, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

The Spirits Cometh

A new poem that will be in my second collection in the works. My current collection is available on Amazon. Thank you for your support.  

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literature, Nez Perce, poems, Poetry, spiritshttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on The Spirits ComethAugust 21, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

Poetry Snippets

Available on Amazon.

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amazon, Books, literature, poems, Poetry, technologyhttp://UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Poetry SnippetsAugust 16, 2018January 28, 2020 By jscampbellwriting

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