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by Travis G Finborg

I have found solace

On this tiny island

I see the landscape of mars

When I wake

Scratching the sandy grit

From my loneliness

I have become an island

No neighbors within site

Or maybe I am the deserted man

Seeking shelter under a craggy rock

Seeing a vast vat of blue

Choppy waves

Each one inching closer and closer

In this place of desert camouflage uniforms

Of colonels and sergeants

Of em-sixteens and tents

I have found solace in the

Crashing blue sky

12/01/2002

Author's Note: I am stationed at Masirah Island Oman at the time of writing this poem.

Posted on 12/01/2002
Copyright © 2026 Travis G Finborg

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Rommel Cruz on 12/03/02 at 10:16 AM

you painted a lonely picture. but at least you have ice cream! j/k.

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