While most of my reading time is spent on novels, I always enjoy finding and reading good poetry.  Poetry is a unique form of art; it distills emotions and experiences into a compact form.  Poems are the most musical collections of words in our language – an amalgam of letters that fiddle with rhyme, rhythm, and meter in search of the perfect balance of sound and meaning. In late 2013, probably cleaning for some inspection at West Point, I leafed through a black leather Moleskine journal on my bookshelf.  I hadn't written in the journal in almost a year... I tend to get easily distracted from one project, going off in [...]