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Kelly Joe Ray.

TIME Time is your rival…Time is your friend… We think about time…Time and again… Time is your buddy…Time is your pal… Time is eternal…In the depths of hell… Time can be wasted…But time can’t be saved… In no time at all…They are digging your grave… Yes time fly’s by…But it never comes back… It sneaks...

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WOW...MAN OH MAN...Roy Boy...That one moved me to tears shipmate...Definitely one of the best poems that I have ever read...Goes to the heart of a Patriot...Like a hot knife in butter...This is your best of the best for me so far...WOW...Stress will make one produce marvelous works...Huh? Thanks for...

Hey Guys Here is one of my newest songs. I posted a link to you tube so you can hear it as well. It was written over The Memorial Day Holiday in 2014. The video features myself and an Old Skimmer Puke Buddy of mine D.W. Butcher on harmonica, and his wife Anne on tambodrum. I've known him since 1974....

Great description of that lonely feeling one has when they leave on a jet plane. Fantastic poem Roy. I wish I would have wrote this one...I damn sure lived it a bunch of times...

That's a beautiful poem...AND a great idea... I got to get me one of them Time Regulators...

Another great explanation of what it is like to be in love, homesick and burnt out all at the same time...We call it Submariners Disease...Hungry, Horny and Sleepy all three at the same time...

Great story man...Great poem too. Thanks for sharing. People will never know about every day heroes like "The Chief" if you don't tell them about him. I can't begin to recall all the acts of bravery I witnessed in my 5 years on the Madison...It truly was Steel Ships and Iron Men...

Good stuff Roy. I can relate...

Yeah, they re married and had three beautiful girls and lived happily ever after last I heard which was several years ago.

I remember my flight to Rotten Groton as well...Had to take a puddle jumper at one point and it scared me to death in rough weather...Roy reading your poems made me break mine out...I sure related to your writing. I enjoyed every one of them. Please post more if you have any...You can call me Ray, o...

This was an unfinished work...I started about a year ago...But reading RM's poem read at the reunion reminded me of this so I broke it out and finished it...It's for surface pukes and air dales mostly. THE BIG BLACK METAL TOMB I've got news for you shipmates, you ain't got a clue... Of what it's lik...

This is it in a nutshell shipmates...

Been there and done that brother...