Long Saigon Poems
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Memories of a Green Beret
Memories of a Green Beret
“Where have all the soldiers gone, Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone, Long long time ago,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Gone to graveyards, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When...
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Categories:
saigon, history, nostalgia, veterans day, violence,
Form:
I do not know?
Execution Style
Sonny hid behind the melons
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos
Where the shadows could obscure his face.
He inhaled the air around him
And enjoyed the fragrant scent of...
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Categories:
saigon, adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Form:
Ballad
When I Was Young 1970s
I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin
I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand
I saw commandos...
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Categories:
saigon, childhood, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
In the Midst of It
Let me tell you a true story.
Hopefully to show God’s power and His glory.
Two army buddies, friends that went A.W.O.L.
Absent without leave a military crime, a foul.
Two young men scared in Saigon, not more than...
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Categories:
saigon, faith, inspirational, war, care, night, people, care,
Form:
Rhyme
Weathervane
Ngo Dinh Diem thought America was a friend
That turned out badly, he met a bloody end
A State Department cabal thought he denied human rights
They pulled the plug and turned off the lights
JFK agreed he had...
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Categories:
saigon, betrayal, character, courage, freedom, history,
Form:
Lyric
The Vietnam War
The pro-Hanoi Vietcong many years ago
In the 1950's Diem's government they'd overthrow
All opposition was crushed killed or jailed
These elected ones to their people they failed
This Buddhist country so religious in belief
Now politically torn apart, impending...
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Categories:
saigon, death, history, hope, life, loss, peace, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Prologue 2
OFFENSIVE !!
Gus Ferenski had a problem. It was a beautiful day outside. The rebel sun gazing down
like a peeping Tom.
The factory air, fresh and clean
as a San Francisco hippie.
The leaves were...
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Categories:
saigon, art,
Form:
Other
Beer
This is the best beer I've ever had.
Yes, The best beer I've ever had.
No beer is really bad, but
This is the best beer I’ve ever had.
Beer’s invention was accidental I’m told.
Something about stored grain...
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Categories:
saigon, adventure, best friend, celebration, drink, food, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
And the Mothers Weep
AND THE MOTHERS WEEP
...
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Categories:
saigon, anger, angst, death, eulogy, mother, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Come Along With Me
Just come along with me to the town
where long time ago I bicycled,
walked and ran about whenever
I wanted to smell the fragrance of Saigon
where I raised my hand to salute the
spirits...
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Categories:
saigon, appreciation, beauty, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
A Maidens Tale
Many, many moons ago
when the world was young
people were nomads
carefully moving from place to place
this was the age of dinosaurs
a need for caution
mighty eruptions occurred daily
causing large cracks
that swallowed up camps and people
A time when...
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Categories:
saigon, journey, love,
Form:
Epic
A Place I Have Never Been
A place I Have Never Been
This place I travel to
Still I have never been.
I like the casual feel of your words.
I relish the smell of these streets.
Words extracted from your experiences.
I hungrily accept your invitation.
I...
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Categories:
saigon, beautiful, blessing, childhood, fantasy, friend, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Road To Lovejoy - Piano For the Self Taught - Part 2
"Road to Lovejoy - Piano for the Self Taught" (Part 2)
His name was
Flight Left-Tennant V.C.Burton,
or "Victor Charlie Bravo", when he
got pulled over by the cops, explaining
"a sherbert or two Lynette, but not on the rocks".
though...
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Categories:
saigon, dad, daughter, father daughter, imagery, love, military,
Form:
Free verse
Heavy Medal Addiction
Uncle soldier Sammie
is too flashback far Saigon
The bad memory withdrawals
are too ganja gun smoke strong
So he pumps up the blame volume,
saying who’s dirty napalm wrong
He’s got a shaky second and...
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Categories:
saigon, allegory, history, leadership, war,
Form:
Epic
Annie Londonderry
In 1894, Annie climbed on a bike
Told the doubters to take a hike
Planned to cycle cross the planet, found sponsors, took a gun
Though she died 50 years after, her legend had begun.
How much is embellished,...
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Categories:
saigon, adventure, america, courage, endurance, freedom, gender, jewish,
Form:
Lyric
Down and Out In Saigon
Down and Out in Saigon
Southeast Asia, and Mexico
has always attracted
A certain type of westerner
The down and out
On a down word spiral
Why?
Relatively cheap to live
Lots of part-time gigs
Teaching English
Or other things
Cheap Booze, drugs,...
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Categories:
saigon, america, lost, , western,
Form:
Quatrain
Private Schlink's Musings On the Vietnam War
Gawd! I awoke this morning wondering what I'm doing in this miserable place!
I thought the oath I took was to defend America's shores, not a foreign race!
The French made a mess and ran, now,...
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Categories:
saigon, warwar, home, america, home, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Going Away
I reckon time
By my children’s ages
My daughter is 30
My son is 25
No, this happened
A long time ago
Before I met their mother
How many years was that?
They seemed to be missing
All at once
Stan from...
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Categories:
saigon, life
Form:
Narrative
Universal Soldier
Lay me to rest in marbled halls with angels at my head,
not lying here in the mud of Ypres with khaki turning red.
Let me die a noble death, one that's worth fighting for,
not to avenge...
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Categories:
saigon, anger, humanity, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sometimes At Dawn
Back in the day
When we would meet
Down by the quay
We'd be discreet
And wrap our arms
Around each scent;
Exotic charms
Of Orient
But both of us
Would not set free
Our...
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Categories:
saigon, truth,
Form:
Quatrain
Vietnam Was Fifty Years Ago
Vietnam was Fifty Years Ago
By Franklin Price
8/30/2018
Vietnam was fifty years ago
Around the world across the sea
God went with me on tour
Now it's just a memory
The Air Force was my service branch
Ground navigation was my field
...
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Categories:
saigon, memory, military, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial Day
MEMORIAL DAY
June 1, 2015
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To all of you that have ever worn
"THE UNIFORM"
The Uniform of safety and security,
The Uniform of pride and liberty
THE UNIFORM OF FREEDOM
THE UNIFORM OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THANK YOU
Thank...
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Categories:
saigon, america, appreciation, history, holiday, memory, military, tribute,
Form:
I do not know?
A Saigon Story
We lived in Saigon many, many moons ago
Of which I have a tale to share
About a pair of my husband boots
His favourites…. the ones he loved to wear
A shoe shiner came to the work...
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Categories:
saigon, feelings, hope, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Kabul Has Fallen
Kabul Has Fallen
Kabul has fallen
The news screams
Kabul has fallen
In less than two weeks
The intel officers
Got it so wrong
Everyone said
That Kabul would not fall
That the center would hold
Yet Kabul fell
Faster than anyone thought
It would
The...
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Categories:
saigon, allusion, america, anger, angst, sad, war,
Form:
Free verse
Angelina
In 1965, I was enlisted,
To serve in the battle at Vietnam
For ten senseless years, I fought
Until the fall of Saigon
A medic, my trade,
In battle- I'd nurse
All the wounded soldiers...
The...
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Categories:
saigon, love, war, wife,
Form:
Rhyme