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Hanoi Poems - Poems about Hanoi

Our hero on epitaph
...our mouth owes a debt to your buried bones a hot lead cracked in a jiffy, and your brain splashed~ in the thick forest of Hanoi, with the stains sucked by soil as a flow thicker than......

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Categories: hanoi, america, death, eulogy, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Autobiography of John Sidney McCain III, Sometime Senator of Arizona
...1. To Fly My father was an admiral, and so I joined the Navy. Back in fifty-eight to be a pilot seemed the way to go: ship-sailors were committed to a crate. Scrub decks? Paint rusting gunwales?......

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Categories: hanoi, life,
Form: Rhyme



GIRLCROOSH: INSTRUCTIONS ON FINALLY FEELING OKAY
...Try to get out of bed early, try to make your bed. Inhale. Your off-white bedsheets haven’t been washed in a month. Try purchasing a new detergent, one of those that’s petal-scented: 2 in 1 ......

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Categories: hanoi, bereavement, depression, endurance, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tuna Fish, Beer and Seed
...As a child, men of science warned me about the coming of a second ice age. They flashed pictures of stomping mastodon hungry saber tooth cats and giant sloths with enormous claws. I listened ......

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Categories: hanoi, fun, snow, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Heroes Welcome - For John
...Flim Flam the hero man sold his story and away he ran From Hanoi to DC before swamps could be drained karma would catch him and rot out his brain But the damage was done in the Great Halls ......

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Categories: hanoi, in memoriam, political,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Where Does Racist Hate Originate
...Our leaders who are Caucasians On some previous occasions Would A-bomb Japan And Viet Nam hides tan But hate all bias against Asians Author's comment: Hate crime is always bad. Here's......

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Categories: hanoi, hate, history,
Form: Limerick
War We Like
...wars we like Do we like wars as long as it is at our doorstep the Russians fought in Afghanistan and lost hands down the USA took over this unwinnable war so far it has lasted Twelve years wit......

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Categories: hanoi, absence, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Pirate Cat and Pirate King
...Pirate cat in stealth mode wiggles his joy. Hunting prey like an eager cat boy. Rats on the ship were singing ahoy. Licking their paws in Hawaiian poi. Three legged cat with his peg leg coy Fa......

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Categories: hanoi, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Hanoi Hannah
...A singer in search of a song Discovered that they were all wrong Whatever she sang Was like a bell rang And everyone flashed her their dong......

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Categories: hanoi, song,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Rice Paddy Feels Swampy Today
...Rice paddy wakes up ready to be planted. Where are those lazy farmers? Snicker laughs. Nothing lazy about them. They are the most cheerful workers she knows She feels swampy today, colder than u......

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Categories: hanoi, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Old Coolie Brags About Her Rice
...Rice paddy wakes up ready to be planted. Where are those lazy farmers? Snicker laughs. Nothing lazy about them. They are the most cheerful workers she knows She feels swampy today, colder than us......

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Categories: hanoi, environment, farm, garden,
Form: Personification
Trump and Ho Chi Mein Trail and More
...Trump and Ho Chi Mein Trail Ho Chi Mein Trail led to his monument; Trump heard that Hanoi Hilton meant, And much strain, Withstood by McCann; Perfect place to leave current President. Jim H......

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Categories: hanoi, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
And the Mothers Weep
...AND THE MOTHERS WEEP by JOHN M. ARRIBAS A young lanky sod buster with no place to go Thought things would be better in San Antonio Jo......

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Categories: hanoi, anger, angst, death, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A True American Hero For the Ages
...A True American Hero for the Ages I thought it would be most appropriate to take a moment to reflect on the life and public service of the late U.S. senator, retired U.S. naval officer and aviat......

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Categories: hanoi, america, celebration, character, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
Associate With Mccain
...Associate With McCain May be many things we associate with McCain; To go to war, he always would train and train, Was heroic And historic, And in Hanoi Hilton would withstand the pain. Jim......

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Categories: hanoi, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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