COLIN F. JONES
"Col"
- A Bit Much
- A Christmas Rhyme
- A Complex Question
- A Cycle of Life
- A Destroyed Image
- A Dream
- A Dying Soldier
- A Field in France
- A Flightless Bird
- A Gentleman?
- A Good Reason to Die
- A Grain in a Sand Storm
- A Grave Issue
- A Letter Home
- A Lonely Walk
- A Man of Peace
- A Measure of Fulfilment
- A Memory Box
- A Moment
- A Moment in Time, Somewhere...
- A Moment of Faith
- A Patriotic Point
- A Piece of Me
- A Place in Europe ~ Somewhere on Planet Earth
- A Pledge
- A Point of View
- A Point of View
- A Prediction
- A President's Song
- A Proud and Noble Right
- A Proud Australian Soldier
- A Recorded Report
- A Round of Applause
- A Single Brush
- A Soldier's Farewell
- A Steadfast View
- A Stitch in the Carpet
- A Symptom of Courage
- A Tiny Grain
- A Toast
- A Tribute
- A Tribute to Loyde P. "Snake" Arender
- A True Soldier
- A Veteran's Dream
- A Veteran's Duty
- A Veteran's Prayer
- A Warrior
- A Warrior's Lament
- A Warrior's Prayer
- Accidents?
- Active Shadows
- Ad Nauseam Indeed
- Advice for a Samurai
- After the Battle (Hue)
- Aftermath
- Agent Orange
- Ain't It so Grand?
- Alarm
- All Good Things
- All It Thought It Ever Had
- All Men Can Cry
- All Men Should Stand
- All Our Soldiers Die In Vain
- All Soldiers Die for Something
- All the Good Players
- All the Soldiers Everywhere
- Alpha and Omega
- Ambush
- America (A Salute)
- America Will Strike
- An Ode to Winston Peters
- An Old Soldier
- An Old Soldier's Mind
- An Unknown Soldier
- And the Gunners Cried...
- Another Day
- Another Quiet Room
- Another View
- Anzac Day, 2001
- Anzac Day, 2002
- Anzac Day, 2003
- Anzac Day, 2004
- Anzac Day, 2008
- ANZAC Soldiers
- Are We As We see Ourselves?
- Arguments
- 'arry Wus Kild
- As Crimson As a Rose
- As It Was Meant To Be
- As Others Do, And I
- At Last It's Over
- August Musings
- Aussies (Pronounced "Ozzies")
- Australian Soldiers
- Awake, Young Soldiers
- Baby Killers
- Back From Hell
- Bannockburn: 1314
- Barbed Wire Children
- Battalion Attack
- Battlefield Bliss
- Be Proud
- Be Proud My Brothers
- Be Proud of What You Are
- Because
- Behold the Man
- Beneath the Hype
- Better Soldiers
- Beyond the Silence of the Gun
- Billy Willbond
- Blame
- Blame?
- Bold and Gracious Men
- Boredom
- Brief Encounter
- Brief Thoughts
- Brother Veterans
- Brother Veterans
- Brotherhood
- Brotherhood of Warriors
- Brothers
- Brothers Die for Brothers
- Bullets
- But Who Were They?
- By Any Other Name
- By Time Defined
- Can One Steal Valour?
- Can You Tell Me?
- Can't Have One Without the Other
- Can't Say We Were Patriotic
- Captain W. Sherlock
- Celebration
- Change
- Choices
- Choppers (Deploying Artillery Guns in Viet Nam)
- Chosen Thoughts
- Christian Soldiers
- Christmas?
- Christmas 1969
- Christmas Times
- Clearing Pathways
- Clover and Clay
- Colours
- Combat Boots
- Commands
- Committed to War
- Complacency
- Complexity of a Stare
- Compare Not One
- Comrades
- Conflict of Natural Peace
- Contact Front
- Convenience
- Could We Have Done It Better?
- Courage
- Cursed
- C'ya Mate...
- Dad to Son
- Damn
- Darkness and Light
- David Maxwell Munday, MM
- Dear David
- Dear Mother
- Death
- Death
- Death of a Soldier
- Death of a Warrior
- Death of a Warrior
- Death, Rot, and Growth
- Death Will Have Her Way
- Death Without Good Reason
- Defeat
- Definitions
- Delayed Agony
- Delirium
- Demons
- Destiny
- Devases Wood
- Distant Wars
- Diuturnity
- Do I Now Think...?
- Do It Quickly
- Do Soldiers Bring Us Hope?
- Do You Fear the Truth?
- Do You Find it Hard...?
- Doctors
- Does Anybody Know?
- Done
- Don't Weep for Us
- Dreams
- Dreams Lost
- Drop-Short
- Dunkirk Beach
- Duty?
- Duty
- Each Will Have His Day
- Emotional Debates
- Empty Rifle
- Empyreal
- Endless War
- Enlightened
- Every Moment of Each Day
- Face Value
- Faithful Hearts
- False Flags of War
- Farewell to a Soldier
- Father and Son
- Fear
- Few Do Cry Today
- Few Of Us Know
- Fidelity
- Find Him In Yourself
- Flashbacks
- For a... Flag
- For the Expendible
- For Themselves
- For You, Poppa...
- Fortress Freedoms
- Foul Echoes
- Freedom
- Freedom's Forms
- From a French Poet (Perhaps)
- From a Samurai
- From a Trench
- From My Diary
- From Our Darkness
- From Somewhere in Viet Nam
- From the Mountain
- Frustration
- Fun With a Gun
- Generals
- Generals
- Getting Old
- Given Choice
- Glory to the Savage Men
- Go Draw Your Swords
- God and War
- 52-53
- A Dying Soldier
- Christian Ethics and Thinking
- Christian Rights
- Conclusions (Section 2)
- Conclusions (Section 4)
- Conclusions Continued
- Conclusions: Do We Really Care?
- Conclusions: Final
- Conclusions: Sacred Silence
- Fodder for Blasphemous Thought (Letters to a Priest)
- Fodder for Christian Thought
- God's Poets and Preachers
- Methods of Reasoning
- Reality: Part 1
- Reality: Part II
- Reality: Part III
- Reality: Part IV
- Reality: Part V
- Reality: Part VI
- Reality: Part VII
- Section 1: The Spiritual Ethics of Life
- Sequel
- Some Additions
- The Sacred Banners
- To the Christian Priest
- War Thoughts
- Why Ask?
- God Made the Gun
- God of Peace
- God's Warriors
- Gone are the Daisies
- Good Mates
- Good Old Earth
- Goodbye
- Goodbye, My Love
- Got Another Medal Today
- Grief
- Guilt
- Gunfire
- Half Measures
- Harry
- Has There Ever Been a Time...
- Hate Not
- Have Faith
- He Came Home Today
- Healing Up
- Heaven
- Hero
- Heroes
- History
- History
- Hollow Boulders
- Home Truths
- Hope Lives in All
- How Could I?
- How Could I Know?
- How Does it Feel?
- How Many Live?
- How Many Verses?
- Human Obligations
- Humble is the Voice of Knowledge
- Hypocrites
- I Am Australia
- I Am Just a Vet
- I Did My Duty
- I Feel No Guilt
- I Hear a Storm Bird in the Night
- I Killed Him
- I Knew Old England Once
- I Must Rest from This
- I Stand Here
- I Thank Thee Lord
- I Wonder
- I Wonder Why
- I Would Like to Be
- If
- If
- If I Took My Heart and Killed It
- If We Draw Not Back the Bow
- If You Are Killed
- If You Made Me
- In Her Fashion
- In Remembering Peter Earsman
- In the Field
- In the Haze of Cordite
- In The Hearts Of Soldiers, Mate
- In the Pits
- In The Pits
- Incident at Wattle
- Interludes
- Intermittences
- Iraq
- Iraq Must Fall
- It Can't Be Done Again
- It Does Not Matter (If the Children Die)
- It Is Always Today
- It Is As It Is
- It Is As We Are
- It Matters More
- It Matters Not
- It’s Hard
- It's Up To Us
- IWVPA
- John Hall
- John Joseph McCloud
- Just a Game
- Just a Hole... Please
- Just a Quick (Sarcastic) Response, Mate
- Just a Thought
- Just an Old Warrior
- Just an Ordinary Man
- Just Because It Is So
- Just Following Orders
- ... Just Musing
- Just the Enemy I Must Kill
- Lang Vei! Not Semper fi!
- Law Within A Law
- Lawless
- Lawless
- Leaders
- Leadership
- Lest He Be Called a Fool
- Lest We Forget: Warrant Officer K.A. "Dasher" Wheatley, VC
- Let Dead Soldiers Die
- Let the Truth Be Known
- Let Them Be Noticed
- Let Us Dream
- Let Us Forge Our Steel
- Let Us Make the Best of Things
- Let Us Talk of War
- Letter from Nam
- Letters - 1969, Viet Nam
- Liberty
- Liberty
- Liberty! Oh Sweet Liberty
- ... Liberty Then
- Life is This
- Like You and I, You Know
- Logic?
- Long Gone
- Look
- Look
- Lost
- Lost in Dreams
- Love and Fear
- Loyalty
- Loyalty is Love
- Lucky To Die
- Madrid
- Mail Out
- Make Us Whole
- Malaccan Memory!
- Malaria
- Man
- Man
- Man of Honour
- Mass Destruction
- Mates
- Maybe
- Meanwhile...
- Medals
- Medics
- Medieval Conquest
- Memories
- Memories
- Memories of Viet Nam
- Men of Flesh
- Men of Honour
- Mike
- Miscommunication
- Mizzen in Action
- Moments in Time
- Monumental Memories
- Monuments
- Mossies
- Mossies
- Most
- Most Folk
- Most Soldiers
- Mother Nature
- Mumblings
- My Faith
- My Father
- My Friend
- My Little Plot
- My Son
- Negative?
- Negative and Positive
- Never to Forget
- New Guinea, 1943
- Nice Stuff Before Bed...
- No One Ever Knows What For
- No Right...
- No Time For Tears
- No War
- Not All
- Not Ever Knowing Why
- Not For Glory
- Not for God and Country
- Nothing Done?
- Nothing Left to Share
- Now I Am Free
- Nurtured Choices
- Obnoxious Officers
- Ode to a Lost War Poet
- Ode to America
- Of Equal Worth
- Of the Same Soul
- Old Veterans
- On Anzac Day
- On the Death of Bob Hope
- One Place
- One Reply
- One Spur and the Arrow
- Only God Knows
- Our Australia
- Our Heroes
- Our Comrades Up In Heaven
- Pacifists
- Pain and the Veteran
- Passive Warriors
- Patriots
- Pawns Are As Pawns Are
- Pawns of Progress
- Peace
- Peace and War
- Peace is Where Our Brothers Sleep
- People Who Are Free
- Perceptions
- Percy Veer
- Perfection
- Perhaps
- Pete
- Pogo
- Politics
- Poppa
- POW
- Power
- Power
- Prayer
- Prelude
- Pretenders
- Pride
- Pride
- Protestors
- PTSD
- PTSD
- PTSD in Me
- PTSD (The Badge of a Warrior)
- Purpose of the Thorn
- Radio Check
- Random Stuff About War and Warriors
- Reality
- Reality
- Reason
- Recruit
- Reflections
- Regret
- Religious Warriors
- Remember
- Remember Them
- Remember Them
- Remembrance Day
- Remembrance Day - WW1
- Reply To: What Can We Offer?
- Retrospective Soldier
- Return to Where You Belong
- Reunion
- Reveille
- Reveille
- Revenge
- Rhyme of a Child
- Right and Truth
- Roadside Rest
- Rodent
- Rolls Royce Reconnaissance
- Ruminative
- Sacrifice
- Sacrificial Man
- Sadness
- Savage Eyes
- Say Not
- Scars
- “Scrimmy”
- Seeds of Sweet Nature's Flower
- Self Portrait in Brief
- Self Sorrow
- Self Sorrow (The Last Defence)
- September 11: My Tribute to America
- September 2004
- Septic Tanks
- Shadow Light
- Shot
- Sick of it All
- Sir
- So It Goes On
- So Long...
- So Long As It's Them
- So True, so True
- Soldier of the Queen
- Soldiers
- Soldiers are Sacrificed
- Soldiers Don't Give Their Lives, They Lose Them
- Soldiers of Viet Nam
- Somalian
- Some
- Some
- Some People Laugh
- Some Soldiers
- Some Thoughts
- Some Thoughts
- Sometimes
- Sometimes
- Somewhere
- Song of Sorrow
- Sorrow Lies Not in the Coffin
- Speak Not of Freedom
- Stand Firm Brother
- Stand Too - Perimeter Patrols
- Stirling Bridge: 1297
- Stormin' Norman
- Strong Point One
- Such As It Is
- Supper is Served
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take Off Thy Shoe
- Talk
- Tell Me Then...
- Terrorists
- Thank You
- That Small Flaw
- That We Are Free
- That's the Way it Goes
- That's Why We Soldiers Die
- That's Why You Did Not Die
- The Angel of Satan
- The Battle of Agincourt: 1415
- The Battle of Agordat (Western Front, 1941)
- The Battle of Gonzales (Texas, October 1835)
- The Battle of Hastings: 1066
- The Battle of Maghdaba (December 1916)
- The Battle of Sunda Strait: 1942
- The Battle of The River Plate
- The Battle of Thermopylae
- The Battle of Tours: October 10, 732
- The Battle of Tug Argan (Western Front, 1941)
- The Battle Scars Remain
- The Better Tyrant
- The Bleat of the Sheep – A Discussion
- The Blood Those Soldiers Did Bleed
- The Bullet
- The Centre of the Board
- The Chairman
- The Child
- The Cleric
- The Column
- The Conflict in Viet Nam
- The Crimson Moat of Freedom
- The Culling Machine
- The Cycle of Struggle
- The Day Will Come
- The Eagle Soaring With the Dove
- The Enemy Within
- The Essence of Man
- The Farrier
- The Fight is Never Over
- The First Graze
- The Flag is Falling
- The Followers
- The Forever Wall
- The French Nurse
- The Glory of War
- The Good War
- The Grave
- The Great Land
- The Gun
- The Gunners of 104
- The Guns and the Rumbling of Tanks
- The Happening
- The Hole in Our Souls
- The Hurting Ends
- The Inaction of Silence
- The Lame Are Still the Lame
- The Logic of War
- The Loser Always Wins
- The Loved Ones
- The Main Gate at Nui Dat
- The Midnight Festival
- The Missing Element
- The Monument
- The New God
- The NVA
- The Old Man
- The Old School Tie
- The Paludrine Parade
- The Passing of Soldiers
- The Path to Peace
- The Peace You Keep
- The Perfect Scam
- The Pits
- The Pits
- The Power of Freedom
- The Professional
- The Rain Came
- The RAS Badge
- The Rats of Concord
- The Regiment
- The Regiment
- The Road to Keren
- The Roundabout
- The Roundabout
- The Scheme of Things
- The Seeds of War
- The Serpent Said...
- The Servants of Evil
- The Silent Many
- The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak
- The Sniper
- The Soldier‘s Lot
- The Soldiers’ Lot
- The Sons of Mothers
- The Spirit Deep Within
- The Spirits of Warriors
- The Thunder of Silence
- The Tide
- The Toxic Flower of Viet Nam
- The Ultimate Bribe
- The United States of America
- The Unsaid
- The Unsung Heroes
- The Vermillion Emblem
- The Veteran Vote
- The Viet Cong
- The Warm Spring Apache (Lozen)
- The Warrior
- The Warriors of Viet Nam
- The Way It Is
- The Way It Is
- The Way It Is
- The Way of War
- The Way of War
- The Year of Our Lord, 2004
- There Ain't Nothing
- There Is No Life Unless We Kill
- There They Stand
- There Was No Honour
- They Are Not Remembered
- They Blamed It on the Soldiers
- They Call It Freedom
- They Cannot All Be True
- They Marched Down the Middle of the Street
- They Talk of Hell
- They Will Not Care
- They Will Sit Here At Our Tables
- Things to Think About
- Thinking as Would the Other
- This Horse
- This Man
- This Old Veteran
- This Old Veteran
- This Union of Poets
- Those For Whom We Fight
- Those Who Also Died
- Those Who Enjoy Life
- Those Who Fled
- Thoughts (In Weaker Moments)
- Time Favours the Meek
- Tin Soldiers
- '‘Tis Better Always
- 'Tis the Living Who Suffer
- 'Tis Your Choice
- To a Brother Veteran
- To a Conscript
- To a Friend
- To a Mate
- To a Protestor (with respect)
- To a Young Warrior
- To Blue
- To My Fellow Poets
- To Tell Them Why
- To the Dead Children
- To the Few (or the many?)
- To the Sacrificed
- To the Serving Soldier
- To the Speculator
- To Those Who Moan
- To War, To War We Go, And What For?
- Torment
- Torture
- Tracer
- Treasonable, Despicable Specimens of Men
- True Warriors
- Truth and Lies
- Truth: The Sadness
- Twilight (Part 7)
- Ultimate Sacrifice
- Unarmed Medic
- Uncle Ciril: WWI
- Uncle Sam
- Underway
- Undying Trust
- Unending Peace
- Unity
- Vain Crows and Dictators
- Vain Hope
- Values
- Vanished Dream
- Vanquished Gloom
- Veteran Soldiers All
- Veterans of Another Time
- Via, Veritas, Vita
- Victims of the Casual Glance
- Viet Nam – Looking Back
- Viet Nam –The Lesson
- Viet Nam Veteran
- Vile Virus
- Vinculum
- Vung Tau
- Waiting
- War
- War
- War
- War
- War
- War and Guilt
- War and Peace
- War Chariots
- War Costs
- War is Murder
- War is Natural
- War is Sick
- War Without Politics
- Warriors
- Warriors
- Warriors All
- Wars Are Not Fought By Dead Men
- Warworms
- We All Have Dreams
- We Are Not Afraid of Dying
- We Are Owed Nothing
- We Cannot...
- We Did It for Glory
- We Died Together
- We Fought For Each Other
- We Good Folk
- We Must
- We Must Advance
- We Speak of You Still (A Memorial to Poppa)
- We, The Civilians
- We Till the Same Fields
- We Will Always Fight
- We Who Serve
- We Win or Yield
- We Won!
- Welcome Home
- Welcome Home
- Western Desert: WWII
- What Are They Marching For?
- What Are We Arguing For?
- What Are We Then?
- What Better Way...
- What Did I Gain?
- What Do I Care...?
- What Do Men Know?
- What Does a Soldier Know?
- What For...?
- What Gain?
- What Have I Done?
- What I Write
- What Is Done Is Done
- What Is It That We Die For?
- What is the Law?
- What Makes the Mighty Great?
- What of the Horses?
- ... What The Hell!
- What the Hell is War?
- What Thou Art
- What We Fought For
- What Would I Be?
- When?
- When a Single Man Dies
- When Comrades Meet
- When He Understands His Dad
- When I Got Home
- When I Was Seventeen
- When is it Right?
- When Soldiers Pray
- When the Veteran Dies
- When We Fight the Final War
- When We Were Two Feet Tall
- Where...
- Where Devil's Angels Play
- Where Do They Go?
- Where in this is Love?
- Where the Animals Dwell
- While They Gather to Pray (ANZAC Day, 2005)
- While Silently They Pray
- While You Can
- Who
- Who Are We?
- Who Dies and Who Lives
- Who Do You Serve?
- Who Have You Killed?
- Who Will Weep for the Children?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why Am I Here?
- Why Did I Fight?
- Why Did You Go To War?
- Why Do We Remember?
- Why Go Back?
- Why Must I Suffer So?
- Why, Oh Why?
- With More Years Gone
- Wonderful Men
- Words, War, and the Great What For...
- Would We...
It has been said of Colin by his peers that he is among the elite; the man with the "Magic Pen". He is a uniquely diverse poet, who writes on a wide variety of subjects in many different styles. He is currently compiling several works to be offered for publication, including War Poetry.
An Australian who was born in England, Colin served with 104 Field Battery, Royal Australian Field Artillery in Phuc Tuey Province during the Viet Nam War in 1968-1969. He also served in Malaysia, and has travelled widely as a civilian.
Recipient of the Bronze Helmet Top Poet Award of Excellence for September 2005

For Outstanding writing and service to other veterans
Colin Jones is awarded the DVO Eagle Quill Award for May 2007
Mark I. Kirkmeyer
Poet, Retired Light Weapons/Medical Specialist, Canon City, CO
Dysfunctional Veterans Outreach International


