Rice Paddy Poems - Poems about Rice Paddy

...A Poem [ Viet Nam] By Patrick Kelly The last minutes of evening yields to the moon’s shadowed night, giving me a few moments to nibble the last of my “Band O......

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...HERO “As a boy you’ll go away to that far off distant war And you’ll come back a man Of which my son I’m so proud.” So off to this war I went To a place that I was sent ‘Twas in an Asian......

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...ABANDONED During a skirmish with enemy sources in a rice paddy in Vietnam, I was suddenly cut off from my platoon and receiving heavy firepower. I felt so utterly alone and deserted by my fellow ......

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...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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...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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...Raindrop falls from God's eye and runs off the cheek of the child cowering behind a dumpster for warmth It stings the face of the roofer struggling to finish the job to buy shoes for his childr......

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...HARD JUMP The bird dropped in the darkness the ground somewhere below, slowing its motion to hover, a sudden cross fire erupts. It was dark zero one thirty hours in a routine night insertio......

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...My name is Devi, a foolish name really for it means Angel, and I certainly am not. The city of Phnom Penh had been our home, father was a professor at The Royal University. I was their only child. I ......

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...That homeless guy out on the corner, Carrying a sign that says he’s hungry; Maybe he’s just a drunk or a ‘stoner’, But he might be that one-out-of-three. That one-out-of-three is a veteran, W......

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...The Cavity I know of a man, who was digging in his field, he had seen China on a map and wanted to go there, and by his estimate China was just under his feet. It I was a cumbersome job and th......

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...Was It Worth It? Where did it go? I knew so many that had the passion Protests against government abuse Refusing to live without questions Why do men have to die in a war to conquer others? Guns, bu......

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...Rounds are fired, The young soldier falls, Young no more, Forward into a rice paddy, The silence is eerie Ten thousand miles away, His mother senses, A long, long wait for her, Her tears will......

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