Images from Hell.Images from Hell F. L. Riker AuthorHouse 1663 Liberty Drive Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403 1420842854 $11.45 1-800-839-8640 www.authorhouse.com Written by a Vietnam veteran This article is about veterans of the Vietnam War. For the French psychedelic musical group, see Vietnam Veterans. Vietnam veteran is a phrase used to describe someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War. who has coped with post-traumatic stress disorder post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), mental disorder that follows an occurrence of extreme psychological stress, such as that encountered in war or resulting from violence, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, or serious accident. for years, Images from Hell is as much a story told in verse as it is a work of poetry. The stark, brief lines tell of his suffering, forced into the crucible crucible, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature, as for fusing or calcining. The necessary properties of a crucible are that it maintain its mechanical strength and rigidity at high temperatures and that it not react in an undesirable way with war as a naive young man, and the long, dark journey afterwards af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. afterwards or afterward Adverb later [Old English æfterweard] Adv. 1. toward hope, love and redemption. A severe and intensely personal narrative, weighted heavily with nightmare experiences, yet ultimately transformative and life- affirming. "Duration": In these closed dark spaces of my mind/I feel the deepening horror,/Digging blood dripping pitchforks/Torture me throughout my whole,/Empty blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. walls they now surround me/Reaching hopelessly for a single blood soaked door,/ In this dreadful while of time/I'll now spend with the devil in my soul/Never ending hell is all that's left for me/Nothing left of the world I knew From now I'll never see. |
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