Long Vietnam Poems
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The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
vietnam, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
vietnam, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Operation Money JumpThanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
vietnam, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
America 101When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States. Of course I do not personally remember him. Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I...
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Categories:
vietnam, celebration, patriotic,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Photographic EvidenceThe guy slipped in around 8 p. m....the place was fairly packed...and wearing what they call a ‘hoodie’, quickly took a seat
Just inside the window, and I guessed - by how he looked - having...
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Categories:
vietnam, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
vietnam, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Beware the Ides of March 2023Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
vietnam, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
On Filling Voids - 1st HalfHere's WHY,
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I...
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Categories:
vietnam, father daughter, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
vietnam, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Legacy of Ain'T BarbieThe Legacy of Ain't Barbie
By Franklin Price
03/23/2022
“Ain't Barbie” was her handle, Barbara Price her married name
She was my wife, for most my life, this is how she played the game
Her roots were from the North...
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Categories:
vietnam, blessing, inspiration, jesus, life, love,
Form:
Couplet
Surviving Your Own LifeMy father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.
His freight always sealed with...
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Categories:
vietnam, family, father son,
Form:
Ballad
Dorm LoveOurs was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight Vietnam veteran
southern white good ol' boy,
athletically studying Japanese,
with a gentle passion for...
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Categories:
vietnam, culture, gender, history, love, military, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Sandless Sand CastleThe Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
vietnam, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
vietnam, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Wait a MinuteDid I hear that wrong?
On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay tuned in
to our nesty mess
at my normal liberal-conserving pace.
A single...
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Categories:
vietnam, america, caregiving, culture, games, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Sixty-Eight and Sixty-NineSixty-eight and Sixty-nine
By Franklin Price
02/03/2022
In January sixty-eight, I was sent to Vietnam,
Was no internet back then, no Facebook, only Spam
I went to serve my country. Had signed the line in sixty-five
Going there to do my...
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Categories:
vietnam, life,
Form:
Couplet
For Both, a Second Chance - Both Audio and Text“So tell me…what’s adopting like? Seems a little risky - picking out your children from the local lost and found!
Suppose the kid’s a ‘loser.’ Do they let you bring ‘em back? Can you -...
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Categories:
vietnam, love,
Form:
Narrative
Cautious OptimismHuman foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020, ...
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Categories:
vietnam, world,
Form:
Verse
This Is Unfinished Feminist UsSo I was feeling badly,
sad,
because I share our mutually complicit status
for my compatriot's difficult terrorizing
chronic stress disordering
time.
I too have been there,
lost there,
to a more moderate extent.
I just walked away.
I wish I had done more at...
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Categories:
vietnam, anger, culture, education, fear, humor, military, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
When I Was Born In '45When I Was Born in '45
By Franklin Price
08/08/202
When I was born in '45, was another time and place
Merritt Island, I called home, we had not gone to space
Segregation was the way, we lived back in...
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Categories:
vietnam, america, discrimination,
Form:
Couplet
A Man of No WordsVirgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a few...
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Categories:
vietnam, veterans day, war,
Form:
Prose
An Offer To Entertain -- 1995“Wha’da-ya’ s’pose he’s thinkin’ about,” I heard a nurse inquire, “he sits there almost every day just gazin’ at the pond?”
“Hard to say,” a laundry gal replied, “but chances are...if you could, somehow, read his...
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Categories:
vietnam, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection Available Help Hot-LinesLandlord-Tenant Relationship Protection: Available Help Hot-Lines!
Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...
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Categories:
vietnam, angst, conflict, feelings, heartbreak, humanity, people, soldier,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Transgenerate RootsMy grandparents' grandparents,
all sixteen,
digging roots through cultural meristems,
young adults,
adolescents during Time's 1880's,
post Civil War birth of Sir James Crow monoculture.
What would we name this self-hatred,
this lack of compassion and gratitude for help
for human nature's lavish...
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Categories:
vietnam, culture, gender, history, nature, philosophy, racism, time,
Form:
Free verse
All the Worlds There AreJust watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...
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Categories:
vietnam, art, change, god, life, old, rain, world,
Form:
Verse