
Doug Caffey in Biloxi, Mississippi, June 2004; photo taken by his Australian friend, Anthony W. PahlC. Douglas “Doug” Caffey
Charles Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group, 58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug is a former college dean. He started writing poetry two and a half years ago and though he doesn’t claim to be a poet, he does claim to write from the heart.
Index of Club Writings
- A ‘34 Ford Victoria
- A Bald-Headed Rooster and a One-Eyed Hen
- A Bride for Isaac
- A Cool Day Today
- A Determined Spider
- A Fork in the Road
- A Friend is He
- A Friendly Squirrel
- A Friendly Squirrel
- A Good Day to Ride
- A New Day
- A Ruler Came by Night
- A Spider in Eider
- A Wild Turkey Hen
- An Albino Lizard
- An Extramarital Affair
- Ands and Buts
- Another Birthday
- Ants
- Ants
- At Sunset
- At the Lake Today
- Christmas Wishes
- Come With Me
- Coming (by Barbara M. MacAndrew)
- Corn Bread and Turnip Greens
- Cow Manure
- Cry Not for Me
- Have You Passed This Way Before?
- He Held His Head Up High
- Helen Louise
- Helen’s Heart
- Homesick for Heaven
- How Did You Sleep?
- How Do I Say, “I Love You”?
- How Do You Run the Race?
- How Far Will You Go?
- How Long Has it Been?
- I Ain’t Home Yet
- I Forget What I Forgot
- I Met A Man One Day
- I Saw God
- I Saw Liberty Crying
- I Saw One in a Looking Glass
- I See Rainbows
- I Walk Not the Road Alone!
- I Will Meet You…
- If I Were a Goose!
- If I Were a Goose!
- If I Were King
- If You Walk in My Shoes
- If Your Heart Grows Cold
- In His Pasture at Wade
- In the Sun Today
- Is Your Heart Radio Active?
- Is Your Life on Hold?
- Is Your Soul on Ice?
- Lasix!
- Last Night Was Long
- Little Tommy
- Long are the Shadows
- Lord, Guide My Pen!
- Lord, I Saw What You Did!
- Men Love Darkness
- Milestones
- Mississippi
- Morning Glory
- Motorcycling
- Muggsy is Back Home!
- Muggsy is My Office Boy
- Muggsy Thinks I’m God
- Muscles and Sinews
- Music Soothes the Soul
- My Chair
- My Friend Bill
- My Friend Millie
- My Office is a Mess
- My Race…
- My Wildflower and Me
- Ode to Dr McKee
- Of Windows and Books
- Old Age
- On Growing Old
- On the Banks of the Buckputter
- On Wings of Gold
- Only a Mallard Duck
- Over the Hill
- Scars Left by a Friend
- Seasons
- She Said, “I Do”… and I Did!
- Short Poems Of Grace
- Signs of Spring
- Skinny Dippin’
- Somewhere Between “Now” and “Then”
- The Brain of an Ant
- The Cold North Wind
- The Last Mile
- The Narrow Way
- The Nest Eggs
- The Passing of Time
- The Pill They Call Lasix
- The Preaching of the Word
- The Pruning Knife of Time
- The Turkey from Albuquerque
- The Work of His Hands
- There is One Who Understands
- There Was a Man
- There’s Hope for the Fallen Man
- This Earthly Camel Ride
- This Earthly Journey
- Thoughts Are Things With Wings
- Through the Seasons…
- Triumphing on a Tiger
- Two Eyes 2 See