Phu Poems - Poems about Phu

Nom De Guerre

...Translated from the Slovakian

I enlisted with the god of second chances
Knowing my chances were second to none.
I surrendered my soul and my passport 
When I entered my new life’s routine
In s...

Categories: phu, allegory, war,
Form: Blank verse

Quy Nhon and the Tet Offensive

...Quy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018

Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that...

Categories: phu, memory, new year, war,
Form: Couplet

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 ser...

Categories: phu, memory, military, war,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Marxism For Dummies 13

...Mosaic tablets are not monoliths.
It all depends (despair, or last best hope?)
whatever end of Tocqueville’s telescope
you happen to be viewing.  One man’s myths

are gospels to another.  Freedo...

Categories: phu, satire,
Form: Sonnet

On a Stairway In Luang Prabang

...
Step as you will through life,
A thousand ways, a thousand places.

Carry a home in your heart
Or spend years seeking the door
Where your soul will always smile.

Do you ease the way...

Categories: phu, community, imagination,
Form: Free verse

My Lai 1968

...Pa!   the soldier come! with 
gum and money and big big fun!
they like my aoi dai (dress) and
long black hair, 

Pa! I meet fella, stripe on arm,
big heart, big dollar and home have 
farm;

...

Categories: phu, betrayal, death, horror, war,
Form: Free verse

Sammy Baker Charlie 4

...Sammy Baker Charlie 4, he's on my tail
like a grateful whore,
guns are blazing, cannon shells spew
it's a hell of a fight over Dien Ben Phu

and this Russian mig's amazing, they 
never seem to ...

Categories: phu, veterans day, war,
Form: Free verse

Dien Bien Phu

...Lessons learned
by first the Chinese
then France
and the Unites States...

Never underestimate
unconventional units
or guerrilla warfare
supported by regular units...

Dien Bien Phu
Bernar...

Categories: phu, america, patriotic, war,
Form: Free verse

Booville

...Long ago in Booville lived a Doo
Doo had a friend named Rue-Foo
Rue-Foo was obsessed with candy
But he was never handy
Then Rue-Foo found a mooing Phu-boo...

Categories: phu, animal, art, candy, character,
Form: Limerick

Diamond Mountain Cave

...Diamond Mountain Cave
(Phu Pha Phet Cave)

The largest cave here in Thailand
Has an eighteen acres in total size
It is not that easy for us to find
But if we’ll get in there, it’s a big...

Categories: phu, adventure, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

- Shopping Time - Plastic Card -

...First time ....
                                               Back in the pocket
                                                The second time ....
                                             ...

Categories: phu, funny, seasons, time,
Form: Verse