Vietnam War Poems

BRONX SOLDIER   ( this is a true story ) 

He was a soldier - Bronx born and raised  and learned the streets...

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January 27, 1973

I was sitting in the barracks
yelling and screaming echoed through the halls
sirens blaring, horns blowing, fireworks popping;
the war was over
...

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In verdant jungles thick with fate,
Where shadows danced at war’s cruel gate,
They marched, they soared, they held the line,
With courage fierce and hearts divine.

The call...

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This time then 110 years ago we were all prepared for war,?

That was the time when others were slaughtered and torn.?

Fastforward 4 years the gods...

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Alice

I got my draft notice in 1971
Nam was winding down 
I didn’t wanna go.
So, I started hummin a song,
just a few bars mind you
about Alice,...

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World War 1, and World War 2
It's now 2024, and it's affecting you and I
Korea, Vietnam, the Balkans, Ukraine
No wonder this planet's not been invaded
Out...

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    When the Allies won WW Two
       Who dared say boo

    From 1948...

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Recently I watched a program on the Vietnam war
And I realized even more what these soldiers stood for
They were living in trenches that they called...

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The Beatles split up so mystically -pronto
the Vietnam spine came back together
some branded the blame into Yoko
some tied a wreath of thorns on the reds.

Imagine...

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My Interpretation:                       ...

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You say you care about people black and brown,
And victims of war in every Gazan town.
But I doubt your heart, here’s why I think it...

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Ohio and Kent State
were far away from Australia.
But like America, the Vietnam war
hung like a noose around
the collective neck of the Nation. 
We were fired...

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The green fields in which we young ran
in summers long past, oh so sweet;
those honeyed days so better than
today’s rank forests of deceit.

Crystal lakes in...

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SEVEN THOUSAND ISLANDS

Some five hundred miles East of Vietnam
The Phillipines is a multi-island archipelago
Named in honour of King Phillip of Castile
It was Spain’s mid sixteenth...

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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...

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