Spilled Ink from the heart and soul of Poet and Author Richard M Knittle Jr.

"The colors of the pales (the vertical stripes) are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valor, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice." Colors I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS... I do not know about you but tears still build up in my eyes when I recite the pledge of allegiance because It reminds me of when I was just a child in this once great country of ours, it was a time when we all played barefoot in the park until the street lights came on without any fear of strangers or being taken. It reminds me of our nations Bicentennial in 1976 when our country stood tall and proud and we celebrated its two-hundred-year-old birthday, it reminds me of when I proudly served our country earning three honorable discharges that hang on my wall today. It reminds me

Set the world on fire  Way back when I was still in school around the age  of about oh let's just say it was a long time ago when  I was a lot younger then I am today, back when I still  believed in real true love, truth, justice, and even the  American way, when nothing but love and a childish  innocence was all that I had along with quite possibly  a slightly skewed sense of what was right and what  was wrong. I was only just a young man who happened  to believe still in what freedom is supposed to be and  the American flag, even the office of the President no  matter who at the time was filling it, I guess maybe  looking back I was what they called a dreamer always  believing I could for some reason or another make  things a little better but I know now back then my head  was stuck somewhere up in the clouds as it was filled  full up with unrealistic expectations of who or what I  would be when I grew up. but I know now all of those  thoughts were really more like delusions of g

A chance to win I never really ever get a chance to win against love, always screwing up I think it has me by a score of at least ten to one, so if you are a betting man which I am not then you should place a big money bet against me and you will double your odds that love comes out on top. For many years now myself and love have gone round after round always ending up in the same place with me laying flat on the ground just trying hard to stand back up usually though I do not make it all that far before love comes back just to kick me hard in my gut wanting to make sure that I never get back up. The war will continue between true love and I while I am losing battle after battle as it beats the hell out of me in hand to hand combat while we are both locked away like those MMA fighters in a cage on cable TV while Viva Las Vegas has the option on me coming in at a million to one odds in favor that I just may win for once I would not even take that bet but it is the last round and I am fa

When I Close My Eyes I might not be able to in reality actually, change this lost and broken world and I might not be able to change your made up mind about leaving out of the door, I might not be able to make you love me just as much as I love you, but I can still dream about It when I go to bed at night and close my eyes because that is where I am living nowadays somewhere deep down within my mind. That is where we are still together and I am yours forever and you are mine, because that is where I go when I want to escape all the violence in this world and the hate that we see everywhere around, it is a place where you and I can feel safe together walking hand and hand down the quiet and peaceful streets late at night after one of our many dates, a place that is filled full with laughter and joyful tears while we are drinking margaritas on some white sand deserted beach while we are dancing at midnight in a warm summer rain where we both are always smiling we have forgotten all our p

Six years ago my life was changed in ways I will never fully understand a serious of events triggered a chain of disaster that caused the deepest sadness I will ever know, causing me to give up for the first time in my life. But from that day forward I will always believe in God, his angels, and heaven and hell, up to then, I was not a believer, the sights the smells, the taste is something I can never forget, then I woke up and started writing and I have yet to stop, "The Battle Lost: Ryders Birth" was the first set of poetry I wrote, you see s Poet was born from the ashes of a wasted life. This book hit number one in several categories it stayed in the top for many years and now it is still in the top ten and still free for the kindle. An Epic Poetry adventure that takes you on an emotional journey into one mans epic battle against the evil's of addiction and the search and fight for his son Ryder who is not of his blood. As the battle starts with hope now gone a child

Forever know the tune When we meet then fall in love we would like to believe that it will be for an eternity, walking down our life's paths holding hands until the ends of time, however, we all know that forever is just a metaphor for sorry I do not love you anymore I met somebody else and so on so forth now I want a divorce and then you realize that forever is just a lie, at least most of the time, anyways. But not always so I need you to know that you are in reality, only a leftover memory or just a little piece of my past still breathing deep down inside of me, almost like a song or melody one you hear all over the place as it seems stuck inside of your head all day-long everywhere you go hearing it either as a whistle or the tap of a pencil or maybe even somebody is humming the tune almost like the musical notes are just floating along right there in the air and even though you may not remember all the words to the song, I will always and forever know the tune as it is always

Six years ago my life was changed in ways I will never fully understand a serious of events triggered a chain of disaster that caused the deepest sadness I will ever know, causing me to give up for the first time in my life. But from that day forward I will always believe in God, his angels, and heaven and hell, up to then, I was not a believer, the sights the smells, the taste is something I can never forget, then I woke up and started writing and I have yet to stop.  "The Ba ttle Lost: Ryders Birth" was the first set of poetry I wrote, you see s Poet was born from the ashes of a wasted life. This book hit number one in several categories it stayed in the top for many years and now it is still in the top ten and still free for the kindle. An Epic Poetry adventure that takes you on an emotional journey into one mans epic battle against the evil's of addiction and the search and fight for his son Ryder who is not of his blood. As the battle starts with hope now gone a chil

Every love poem a Poet spills ink on is almost always the truth at least in the soul and heart of the poet who wrote it, for there is usually a pair of lips wearing ruby red lipstick or a first kiss a first date falling making believing in love that has blossomed today, or the thought of love tomorrow, or even a memory from yesterday that is haunting him or her, and this piece of poetry is no different, who she is may just be conjecture and I shall never say and she may never tell but those feelings are still here and now and will always be just as they have always been. Forever never ends It was at least for me anyways so very good to see you again today, all I know is that a miss you more every time you are around me because that is when I start to have all of those feelings that are of happiness and joy that I know will never end for wherever it is we are no matter who we are with you will always have me as I shall always have you in our hearts and souls, until the very end of day

Love is really more Love is really so much more than what can be explained by just a four letter word it is an encompassing emotion a feeling of total completion whereas two people who were at one time complete strangers meet then come together (no pun intended) in heated passion to feel as if they are only one, and from what I hear and have seen (porno on TV) and felt it is no doubt. The problem is I have found that most people nowadays have no idea at all what love truly is since love takes time to grow it is not a quick twenty-minute jump in the sack and fall in love sorta thing or a hey how much money do you make, a girl needs to be taken care of in an if you ain't got no money then you ain't got nobody mine or anyone else kinda a thing, then on top of that going through bad relationships, breakups, and then divorces, that cost ninety-nine dollar, and a bonus hey I am divorced lets party and I now know what I have earned from all of the things I have seen is now I hate to l

My take on Christianity, religion, and spirituality that nobody wants you to see. Dancing with the so-called devil Is sometimes something in my life that I have for one reason or another done well and really quite easily all the while already knowing that even at the end of the paths that I have traveled on when it is time for me leave this world and this body that I now occupy fades away into nothing but dust my soul is heaven bound for sure, while I do live my life to the best of my ability life ain't worth living if you're not trying everything that I possibly know I can, so taking a few or more rides down to the wild side of town for my own pleasure or curiosity is my right as a human being for it is very true that everyone needs to let their demons win every now and then. We down here are no angels at all for they live up in heaven above by any rights or means stuck on a rock with nowhere to go we all need to blow off some much needed steam to take the pressure off or we w

Escape my own mind I have been here for many long years now, how many you ask? Ten maybe even twenty to be honest it has been so damn long I just cannot remember but the one thing I do know is I have cried at least a million tears. Today, well I am still here trapped hidden away and forgotten about by everyone in this prison behind the bars for there are no walls for me to write on and no windows to look through so I can see I am completely blinded by the darkness of my incoherent insanity, it is a very hard time I am so very cold and lonely please I beg of you, somebody anybody help me get away from here do you not hear my screams? Tomorrow then the next and all the days after that I will still be here behind the invisible fence are their others? No, it is only just me all alone in my own solitary confinement. Why am l here? Simple really nothing but fear of the unknown from the shadows of sorrow and regret that was chasing me, so I locked myself away in a cell of my own design so I c