Viet Nam Poems - Poems about Viet Nam

...d design on shirts even on Fox News women paisley idea We need to bring back the joy of the sixties But leave the Viet Nam War behind ......Read More

...We all had homemade dresses for prom; well, nearly all of us. This was back in 1970 while black and white Viet Nam War photos were on TV Every night, we saw such sadness. Prom was a reminder of childhood. Back to the Bibbit......Read More

...Yes death was an awakening We did not realize we carried it with us Until our smiles were wiped clean And the laugh......Read More

...ghs For the last forty years anyway Let’s have a Vicky Roast, he would say, loudly, drawing big laughs. During the Viet Nam war most of the seniors were out there on weekends. Townspeople knew of it. Some religious fanatics used to co......Read More

...selves through wars’ horrors. WWI, WWII, and Korea were the wars of our fathers and their fathers before them. Even Viet Nam was not ours. Our boys feared it, but by the time they graduated from high school, it was safely behind us. ......Read More

...danced romantically. To “Have You Seen Her,” “If,” and “Maggie May” we let our bodies sensuously sway. The threat of Viet Nam was nearly gone. To “Riders in the Storm” we blissfully danced on. March 9, 2020 “Kim Rodrigues’ DWM Con......Read More

...ise children all alone. Many in another country, so far from home. Agent Orange’s residue lingering for generations. Viet Nam War rivaling Star Trek’s unhappy federations. Scrambled legs hopping and jumping Rear ends jiggling, blood ......Read More

...endure. “Gail was only three years old when cancer claimed her mother. She never knew her father - he was killed in Viet Nam. And left on someone’s covered porch when I was two years old, I, like her, was nurtured by a foster dad and ......Read More

...th poison puncture unsure feet... all to protect an unseen enemy raining bullets down from nowhere ~ Viet Nam, 1966 ~......Read More

...viet nam is happening his leg is gone i am sorry i say and thank you for your sacrifice it is not enough but it is......Read More

...s that had been Saturated before with flowered, and vined wall papers. Nehru jackets, hippies, flower children, and Viet Nam soldiers Permeated the news, saturating our breakfast newspapers. Colored TV is exciting, but worth the extra......Read More

...Grandpa got a twenty-one gun salute. I shivered, knowing how much he hated guns After Viet Nam The last time he picked one up was in a jungle. Fifty years ago. They are playing taps now. Sad dirge sou......Read More

...noticed that they never made it to the laundry pile. Being rank was part of our revolution, a clothing protest To the Viet Nam War where our poorest were being sacrificed daily. We scrunched together in Volkswagen busses, Traveling t......Read More

...Chuck Thomas By franklin Price 9/21/2019 I'll tell you of a legend who flew hard in Viet Nam Of a pilot who flew everything, who said that's who I am With a propeller or a rotor or a jet, he'd lead the ......Read More

...hat I never will regret, Did it on my own volition, did not do it on a bet. Four years went by quickly, the last in Viet Nam SOS for breakfast, in MRE's was sometimes spam Was Air Force educated, the last formal of my life Had been t......Read More