Colin F. Jones
“Col”
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 Vietnam War in 1968-1969. He also served in Malaysia, and has travelled widely as a civilian.
Index of Writings
- A Bit Much
- A Christmas Rhyme
- A Complex Question
- A Cycle of Life
- 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 Gun Needs A Gun
- A Hero I Was Not
- A Letter Home
- A Little Story
- A Little Thought
- 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 Negative Prediction
- 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 Point of View
- A Prediction
- A President’s Song
- A Proud and Noble Right
- A Proud Australian Soldier
- A Question of Peace
- A Recorded Report
- A Round of Applause
- A Simple Question
- A Single Battle Shield
- 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
- Abandoned Horses
- Acceptance
- Accidents?
- Active Shadows
- Ad Nauseam Indeed
- Advice for a Samurai
- Afghan Sunrise
- After the Battle (Hue)
- Aftermath
- Agent Orange
- Ain’t It so Grand?
- Alarm
- All Good Things
- All It Takes
- 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
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Alpha and Omega
- Ambush
- America (A Salute)
- America Will Strike
- An Angel
- 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 Day, 2010
- ANZAC Soldiers
- Are We As We see Ourselves?
- Are We Not…
- 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
- Avoiding Friendship
- Awake, Young Soldiers
- Baby Killers
- Back From Hell
- 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 Days
- Better Soldiers
- Beyond the Silence of the Gun
- Billy Willbond
- Black Feathered Dove
- Blame
- Blame?
- Blood Money?
- Bold and Gracious Men
- Boredom
- Born Of the Will
- Born to Hunt
- Brief Encounter
- Brief Thoughts
- Brother Veterans
- Brother Veterans
- Brotherhood
- Brotherhood of Warriors
- Brothers (For My Brother, Barry)
- Brothers
- Brothers
- Brothers Die for Brothers
- Bullets
- Bunkers: Reminiscences of an Aussie and a Yank
- 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
- Cards Face Down
- Celebration
- Change
- Choice
- Choice
- Choice
- Choice and Freedom
- Choices
- Choppers ~ Deploying Artillery Guns in Vietnam
- Chosen Thoughts
- Christina
- Christian Soldiers
- Christmas?
- Christmas 1969
- Christmas Times
- Christmas Wish
- Clearing Pathways
- Clover and Clay
- Cochise
- Col on Col
- Combat Boots
- Commands
- Committed to War
- Compare Not One
- Complacency
- Complexity of a Stare
- 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 and Goliath
- David Maxwell Munday, MM
- Dead Stags
- Dear David
- Dear Mother
- Dear Nancy…
- Death
- Death
- Death of a Soldier
- 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
- Destiny
- Devases Wood: England 1951
- Difficult Choices
- Disappointments
- 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
- Dreamers and Soldiers
- Dreaming Of Heaven
- Dreams
- Dreams
- Dreams Lost
- Drop-Short
- Dunkirk Beach
- Duty?
- Duty
- Each Will Have His Day
- Earth
- Ed
- Ed – The Spirit Weaver
- Emotional Debates
- Empires
- Empty Rifle
- Endless War
- Enlightened
- Every Moment of Each Day
- Face Value
- Faith
- Faithful Hearts
- False Flags of War
- Farewell to a Soldier
- Father and Son
- Faye: To Your Question, My Answer
- Fear
- Fear
- Fear of Reprisal
- Few Do Cry Today
- Few Of Us Know
- Fidelity
- Find Him In Yourself
- Find Him In Yourself
- Flashbacks
- For a… Flag
- For Gar
- For One And All
- For the Expendable
- For Themselves
- For This and For That
- For You, Poppa…
- Fortress Freedoms
- Foul Echoes
- Freaks
- Free Speech
- Freedom
- Freedom?
- Freedom
- Freedom – The Illusion
- Freedom, the Myth
- Freedom’s Foe
- Freedom’s Forms
- Freedom’s Frailty
- Freedom’s Song
- Friends
- From a French Poet (Perhaps)
- From a Samurai
- From a Trench
- From My Diary
- From One Veteran to Another
- From Our Darkness
- From Somewhere in Vietnam
- From the Mountain
- Frustration
- Fun With a Gun
- Fundamental Belief
- Gallowglasses
- Gaza
- Generals
- Generals
- Getting Old
- Given Choice
- Glory to the Savage Men
- Go Draw Your Swords
- God and War
- 52-53
- 110
- A Dying Soldier
- A Glimpse
- Christian Ethics and Thinking
- Christian Rights
- Churches
- Conclusions Continued
- Conclusions: Do We Really Care?
- Conclusions: Final
- Conclusions: Sacred Silence
- Conclusions: Section 2
- Conclusions: Section 4
- Division
- Doubt and Death
- Example
- Failure’s Success
- Faith
- Faith
- False Priests
- Fault
- Fear
- Fear and Faith
- First Thoughts
- Fodder for Blasphemous Thought (Letters to a Priest)
- Fodder for Christian Thought
- Frustrations
- God and War: Sections 1-4
- God and War: The Poem
- God’s Poets and Preachers
- Interlude
- Life and Death
- Methods of Reasoning
- More Questions
- Padres
- Positive Negativity
- Prefatorial
- Prolegomenon: Introductory Stanzas to “God and War”
- Reality
- Religion
- Sequel
- Some Additions
- Tainted Clergy
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Tell Me Then…
- The Creator of War
- The Manipulator
- The Sacred Banners
- The Unanswerable Question
- There Is a God
- There Will Be War
- To the Christian Priest
- War and Peace
- War Thoughts
- We, Our Past
- What Is True?
- Who Are They?
- Why Ask?
- God Bless Our Leaders
- God Bless Thee, All Who Wait
- God Made the Gun
- God of Peace
- God’s Holiest Law
- God’s Warriors
- Gone
- Gone
- Gone are the Daisies
- Good Mates
- Good Old Earth
- Goodbye
- Goodbye, My Love
- Got Another Medal Today
- Grief
- Guard Your Words
- Guardians of the Sod
- Guilt
- Gunfire
- Had I Died In Battle
- Half Mast
- Half Measures
- Happy Valley
- Harry
- Has There Ever Been a Time…
- Hate (All soldiers are trained to kill but not to murder)
- Hate Not
- Hatred
- Have Faith
- He Came Home Today
- Healing Up
- Heaven
- Hero
- Heroes
- Hey Man, Sure!
- Historic Battles
- Bannockburn: 1314
- Eureka: December 3, 1854
- Medieval Conquest
- New Guinea, 1943
- Ode to USS Peary
- Rolls Royce Reconnaissance (Western Desert, 1941)
- Stirling Bridge: 1297
- Stormin’ Norman: General Norman Schwarzkopf
- 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: March 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 Road to Keren (Western Front – 1941)
- The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak
- Tunnell of Accomac
- Western Desert: WWII
- History
- History
- History Lessons
- Hold Me Back
- Hollow Boulders (The False Truth Practiced by Governments)
- Home Is Where We Begin Our Hell
- Home Truths
- Homecoming
- How Could I?
- How Could I Know?
- How Does it Feel?
- How Many Live?
- How Many Verses?
- Human Obligations
- Humanity
- Humble is the Voice of Knowledge
- Hypocrites
- I Am Australia
- I Am Just a Vet
- I Did My Duty
- I Don’t Want To Remember
- I Feel No Guilt
- I Hear the Storm Bird in the Night
- I Killed Him
- I Knew Old England Once
- I Loved ‘Em All
- I Must Rest from This
- I Stand Here
- I Thank Thee Lord
- I Tried
- I Was Not Called To Fight
- 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
- Imagery
- Implants
- In Her Fashion
- In Memoriam
- In Remembering Peter Earsman
- In Retrospect
- In The End
- In the Field
- In the Haze of Cordite
- In The Hearts Of Soldiers, Mate
- In The Land of the Gun
- In the Pits
- In The Pits
- Incident at Wattle
- Indians
- Indifference
- Indisputable
- Inevitability
- Inner Conflict
- Interludes
- Intermediate Ballistics
- Intermittences
- International War Veterans Poets
- Iraq
- Iraq Must Fall
- Is It Not?
- It Can’t Be Done Again
- It Does Not Matter If the Children Die
- It Is As It Is
- It Is As We Are
- It Is Good
- It Is Not War We Celebrate
- It Is Only Now
- It Matters More
- It Matters Not
- It’s All Relevant
- It’s Hard
- It’s Up To Us
- IWVPA
- IWVPA
- Izzy Dolls and Boomer Caps
- Joe
- John Hall
- John Joseph McCloud
- Just a Game
- Just a Hole… Please
- Just a Moment
- Just a Quick (Sarcastic) Response, Mate
- Just an Old Warrior
- Just an Ordinary Man
- Just Because It Is So
- Just Following Orders
- Just Human Beings
- … Just Musing
- Just Pretend
- Just Stuff
- Just the Enemy I Must Kill
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon: The Series
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 1
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 2
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 3
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 4
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 5
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 6
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 7
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 8
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 9
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 10
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 11
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 12
- Kaleidoscopic Balloon ~ Part 13
- Keep Smiling Brother
- Killed
- Killed in Action
- Killing
- Kindness
- Know Thy Enemy
- Known Simply as ‘Crap’!
- Lang Vei! Not Semper fi!
- Language of War
- Law Within A Law
- Lawless
- Lawless
- Leaders
- Leaders
- Leadership
- Lest He Be Called a Fool
- Lest We Forget History
- Lest We Forget: Warrant Officer K.A. "Dasher" Wheatley, VC
- Let Dead Soldiers Die
- Let the Truth Be Known
- Let Them Be Noticed
- Let Them Go
- Let Us Dream
- Let Us Forge Our Steel
- Let Us Forget
- Let Us Make the Best of Things
- Let Us Talk of War
- Letter from Nam
- Letters – 1969, Vietnam
- Liberties
- Liberty
- Liberty
- Liberty! Oh Sweet Liberty
- … Liberty Then
- Life Is So Precious
- Life is This
- Life Is Worth Dying For
- Like You and I, You Know
- Logic?
- Long Gone
- Look
- Look
- Look to Your Own
- Loss of Faith
- Lost
- Lost Glory
- Lost in Dreams
- Lost Sons
- Love and Fear
- Love and Hate
- Loyalty
- Loyalty is Love
- Lucky To Die
- Madrid
- Mail Out
- Make Us Whole
- Malaccan Memory!
- Malaria
- Man
- Man
- Man Alone – Or Being Part of What Isn’t
- Man of Honour
- Maria (For Maria Sutherland)
- Mass Destruction
- Mates
- Maybe
- Me Recent Trip (Oops!)
- Meanwhile…
- Medals
- Medics
- Memories
- Memories
- Memories Bring Joy to Me
- Memories of Vietnam
- Men?
- Men of Flesh
- Men of Honour
- Middle Age
- Mike
- Miscommunication
- Mizzen in Action
- Modernisation
- Modman
- Moments in Time
- Monumental Memories
- Monuments
- Monuments
- Mossies (Pronounced “Mozzies”)
- Mossies
- Most
- Most Folk
- Most Soldiers
- Mother Earth
- Mother Nature
- Mumblings
- My Faith
- My Father
- My Father
- My Friend
- My Little Plot
- My Son
- Mythical Freedom
- National Leader
- Nature Of War
- Nature’s Puppets
- Nature’s Way
- Negative?
- Negative and Positive
- Never Give Up
- Never to Forget
- Nice Stuff Before Bed…
- No Consolation for Col
- No One Ever Knows What For
- No Payment
- 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
- Observations
- Ode to a Lost War Poet
- Ode to America
- Of Banners and Eagles (A Trilogy)
- Of Equal Worth
- Of the Same Soul
- Off They Go
- Old Mates
- Old Veterans
- On Age
- On Anzac Day
- On The Beat
- One Glorious Rage
- One Place
- One Reply
- One Spur and the Arrow
- Only God Knows
- Orange People
- Origins
- Our Australia
- Our Comrades Up In Heaven
- Our Heroes
- Pacifists
- Pain and the Veteran
- Passive Warriors
- Patriots
- Pawns Are As Pawns Are
- Pawns of Progress
- Peace
- Peace and Freedom
- Peace and War
- Peace is Where Our Brothers Sleep
- Peace of Mind
- People Who Are Free
- Perceptions
- Percy Veer
- Perfection
- Perhaps
- Pete
- Pogo
- Polite Thunder
- Politics
- Poppa
- POW
- Power
- Prayer
- Prelude
- Pretenders
- Pride
- Pride
- Prometheus
- Protestors
- PTSD
- PTSD
- PTSD in Me
- PTSD: The Badge Of The Warrior
- Purpose
- Purpose of the Thorn
- Radio Check
- Ramblings
- Random Stuff About War and Warriors
- 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
- Rights?
- Roadside Rest
- Rodent
- Ruby
- Ruminative
- Rumour
- Sacrifice
- Sacrificial Man: The Conscript in Vietnam
- Sadness
- Salute Me Now
- Sarcasm and the Man of Peace
- Savage Eyes
- Scars
- “Scrimmy”
- Seeds of Sweet Nature’s Flower
- Self Portrait in Brief
- Self Sorrow
- Self Sorrow – The Last Defence
- September 11, 2002
- September 11: My Tribute to America
- September 2004
- September 11, 2011
- Septic Tanks
- Shadow Light
- Shadow of Death
- Share
- She Also Serves
- Sheltered Lives
- Shot
- Sick of it All
- Silence
- Sir
- So It Goes On
- So It Goes On
- So Long…
- So Long As It’s Them
- So True, so True
- Soldier of the Queen
- Soldiers
- Soldiers
- Soldiers
- Soldiers
- Soldiers are Sacrificed
- Soldiers Don’t Give Their Lives, They Lose Them
- Soldiers of Vietnam
- Somalian
- Some
- Some
- Some Got Old
- Some Mutterings
- Some People Laugh
- Some Soldiers
- Some Thoughts
- Some Thoughts
- Some Who Never Died
- Sometimes
- Sometimes
- Somewhere
- Song of Sorrow
- Song of the Terrorist
- Sorrow Lies Not in the Coffin
- Speak Not of Freedom
- Spillover
- Spondon Bells
- Stand Firm Brother
- Stand To – Perimeter Patrols
- Strong Point One
- Success
- Such As It Is
- Such Is Life
- Supper is Served
- Sweet Freedom
- Take Off Thy Shoe
- Talk
- 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 Band Wagon
- The Battle Scars Remain
- The Better Few
- The Better Tyrant
- The Bleat of the Sheep – A Discussion
- The Blood Those Soldiers Did Bleed
- The Bullet
- The Chairman
- The Child
- The Cleric
- The Column
- The Conflict in Vietnam
- The Conflict in Vietnam
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
- Australians
- Australian Soldiers
- A Concept of a Soldier
- War, Religion and Politics
- Preparations of 104 Field Battery RAA
- Nui Dat - 1st Australian Task Force Base
- Nature of Conflict
- Revolutionary Warfare
- Routine Orders
- Fire Support Patrol Base (FSPB) Thornton (Operation Kosciusko)
- The Science of the Motion of Projectiles
- A Gun Battery
- A Field Regiment
- Organisation
- Booby Traps
- Part 6
- Part 7
- Part 8
- Part 9
- Part 10
- Tet 1969
- FSPB Dyke: Second Occupation
- FSPB Janice
- News from Home
- FSPB Betty (Operation Federal)
- FSPB Dyke: Third Occupation (Operation Overlander)
- Aircraft
- Boats
- The Last Operation - FSPB Virginia (Operation Stafford)
- Home Sweet Home
- A Religious View
- Why?
- Aftermath
- Some Thoughts
- Some Thoughts from My Notebook… 1970
- The Crimson Moat of Freedom
- The Culling Machine
- The Cycle of Struggle
- The Day Will Come
- The Dead Are Dead
- The Doubtful Believer
- The Eagle Soaring With the Dove
- The Enemy Within
- The Essence of Man
- The Farrier
- The Fight is Never Over
- The Final Post
- The First Graze
- The Flag is Falling
- The Foe Within
- The Followers
- The Forever Wall
- The French Nurse
- The Ghost Dance of Wovoka
- The Glade
- The Glory of War
- The God Person
- The Good War
- The Grave
- The Gun
- The Gunners of 104
- The Guns and the Rumbling of Tanks
- The Happening
- The Hawk and the Dove Compared
- The Hero
- The Hole in Our Souls
- The Inner Foe
- The Lame Are Still the Lame
- The Living Proof
- 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 Nature of Man
- The Nature Of Man
- The New Foe of the Lasting War
- The New God
- The New Messiah
- The New Year
- 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 Poetry of Air
- The Poet’s Dilemma
- The Power of the Free
- The Professional
- The Rain Came
- The RAS Badge
- The Rats of Concord
- The Regiment
- The Regiment
- The Roundabout
- The Roundabout
- The Scheme of Things
- The Seeds of War
- The Serpent Said…
- The Servants of Evil
- The Silent Many
- The Snail Of Justice
- The Sniper
- The Soldiers’ 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 Vietnam
- The Ultimate Bribe
- The Ultimate Sacrifice
- The United States of America
- The Unsaid
- The Unsung Heroes
- The Vermillion Emblem
- The Veteran Vote
- The Viet Cong
- The Vulnerability of Peace
- The Warm Spring Apache: Lozen
- The Warrior
- The Warriors of Vietnam
- The Way It Is
- The Way It Is
- The Way It Is
- The Way of War
- The Way of War
- The Welcome Home Myth
- The Wheel Keeps On Turning
- The Whine Of Old Shells
- The Year of Our Lord, 2004
- There Is a Time
- There Is No Life Unless We Kill
- There They Stand
- There Was No Honour
- They Also Died
- They Are Not Remembered
- They Are We
- They Blamed It on the Soldiers
- They Call It Freedom
- They Cannot All Be True
- They Die In Vain
- They Don’t Look Him in the Eye
- They Marched Down the Middle of the Street
- They Talk of Hell
- They Will Not Care
- They Will Sit Here At Our Tables
- They’ll Fight No More
- Things
- Things Done Are Done
- 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
- Those Who Wait
- Thoughts In Weaker Moments
- Three Days to Anzac Day
- Through The Dirty Window
- Tibbo
- Time Favours the Meek
- Time, My Friend
- Time to Use Their Horns
- Time to Wait
- Tin Soldiers?
- Tin Soldiers
- Tis Better Always
- Tis Only Evil Blood We Spill
- Tis the Living Who Suffer
- Tis Your Choice
- To a Brother Veteran
- To a Conscript
- To A Friend
- To a Friend
- To a Mate
- To A Protestor ~ With Respect
- To a Young Warrior
- To Blue
- To God’s Poets
- To My Fellow Poets
- To Tell Them Why
- To the Dead Children
- To the Few (or the many?)
- To the Serving Soldier
- To the Speculator
- To Those Who Moan
- To War, To War We Go, And What For?
- Too Old To Be Lied To
- Torment
- Torture
- TPIs: Totally & Permanently Disabled War Veterans
- Tracer
- Traumatic Stress
- Treachery?
- Treasonable, Despicable Specimens of Men
- True Warriors
- Trust In Truth
- Truth and Lies
- Truth: The Sadness
- Twilight (Part 7)
- Twin Towers
- Ultimate Sacrifice
- Unarmed Medic
- Uncle Ciril – WW1
- Uncle Sam
- Underway
- Undying Trust
- Unending Peace
- Unity
- Vain Crows and Dictators
- Vain Hope
- Values
- Vanished Dream
- Vanquished Gloom
- Verse, the Valve
- Veteran
- Veteran Soldiers All
- Veterans
- Veterans of Another Time
- Via, Veritas, Vita
- Victims
- Victims of the Casual Glance
- Vietnam
- Vietnam – Looking Back
- Vietnam – The Lesson
- Vietnam Veteran
- VietVet
- Vile Virus
- Vinculum
- Vung Tau
- Wait Then
- Waiting
- War?
- War
- War
- War
- War
- War
- War
- War and Guilt
- War and Peace
- War and the Warrior
- War Chariots
- War Costs
- War is Murder
- War is Natural
- War is Sick
- War, the Preserver of Life
- War Thoughts
- War Thoughts
- War Without Politics
- Warboys
- Warcrap
- Warriors
- Warriors
- Warriors All
- Wars Are Never Won
- Wars Are Not Fought By Dead Men
- Warworms
- We All Have Dreams
- We Are Hollow Men
- We Are Not Afraid of Dying
- We Are Owed Nothing
- We Can Do No More
- We Can Dream
- We Cannot…
- We Cannot Tell You
- We Did It for Glory
- We Died Together
- We Do Not Have a Letterbox
- We Fought For Each Other
- We Good Folk
- We Knew
- We Must!
- We Must Advance
- We Speak of You Still (A Memorial to Poppa)
- We Stand By Our Words
- We, The Civilians
- We Till the Same Fields
- We Who Serve
- We Will Always Fight
- We Win or Yield
- We Won!
- Weep Without Shame
- Weeping Robins Trilogy (Part 3: It Is Always Today)
- Welcome
- Welcome Home
- Welcome Home
- Well?
- Well Now…
- What Are They Marching For?
- What Are We Arguing For?
- What Are We Then?
- What Better Way…
- What Counts?
- What Did I Gain?
- What Do I Care…?
- What Do Men Know?
- What Does a Soldier Know?
- What Everybody Is
- What For…?
- What For? (In Response to a Question)
- What Gain?
- What Happened To Good Cheer?
- What Have I Done?
- What I Write
- What Is Done Is Done
- What Is It That We Die For?
- What is the Great Lie?
- What is the Law?
- What Is The Point?
- 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 We Thought We Chose
- What Were You Then?
- 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 It’s Too Late
- When Our Heroes Are Gone
- When Soldiers Pray
- When the Snow Starts To Thaw
- 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 Do We Go?
- Where Have You Gone?
- Where in this is Love?
- Where the Animals Dwell
- While Our Soldiers Are Dying
- While Silently They Pray
- While the People Groan
- While They Gather to Pray (ANZAC Day, 2005)
- While You Can
- Whisperings
- Who
- Who Are We?
- Who Dies and Who Lives
- Who Do You Serve?
- Who Have You Killed?
- Who Honours Them?
- Who Invented War?
- Who Will Weep for the Children?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why?
- Why All the Fuss?
- Why Am I Here?
- Why Did I Fight?
- Why Did You Go To War?
- Why Do We Remember?
- Why Go Back?
- Why Must I Remember?
- Why Must I Suffer So?
- Why, Oh Why?
- Winners and Losers
- With More Years Gone
- Women Soldiers
- Wonderful Men
- Words, War, and the Great What For…
- Would We…

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
