Bob koshin Hanson served as a Navy Chaplain during one of our country’s difficult and tumultuous times, the Vietnam War era. No doubt “Hunter Warrior has stopped the world,” was informed, in part, by that experience.

Hunter Warrior has stopped the world

the warrior poet has defined the world, 

in the moment

reality no myth here

mystery is in everything

your neighbor

the loud dog

the troublesome grandchild

someone you know too well

a mystery not to be solved but to be accepted, received, as a gift. That mystery in all beings is also in herself or himself.

toughest rock to move

forgiving yourself

accepting yourself…

yet if one is a warrior, hunter or poet, you have no personal history, nothing to protect or cover up just BE!

if one has no history, she or he 

cannot be offended or insulted

 We have nothing more to defend. “don’t be so defensive ” is not in the language of the warrior poet.

everything passes away

everything is nothing

a warrior, a warrior poet walks with her or his own death, no fear, no hanging on, no attachment, freedom!

Bob Hanson, author name used: Bob koshin Hanson!

A retired clergy, Lutheran, US Navy Veteran, serving as a reservist from 1967 to 1976. Was Chaplain to the Fox Company, a US Marine Reserve unit here in Milwaukee. He also served for a short time at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. He has been writing poetry seriously since his first retirement in 2007 and has been a facilitator with Warrior Writers since 2019, with a Zoom workshop on the first and third Fridays of every month at 1130-1330 CDT. Please join us!

I am married and have a wonderful, blended family, five adult children, twelve grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters. I am an active member of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 102, in Milwaukee! I have self-published six books, most of which are on Kindle and Amazon.