Short Vietnam War Poems
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Vietnam War- Tet
VietNam War – TET
war
60’s
Viet Nam
youth quickly lost
Greyscale TV’s final shock and awe
Written April 28, 2019
Contest: Tetractys This Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina...
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Categories:
vietnam war, war,
Form:
Tetractys
My Stories Are Now His Stories
Chet grabbed my story and claimed it as his own.
Tacking on a slightly different ending.
I kept my mouth shut about this.
War has obliterated his own stories.
PTSD dangles him in a state of web-like anxiety.
If claiming my stories makes him happy, then great.
I am glad to be of service to this Vietnam War vet....
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Categories:
vietnam war, war,
Form:
Free verse
The Long Tan Cross
Did you hear the Lon Tan Cross is home!
The 521 Australian fallen are honoured
From a Vietnam War so unpopular
Hail the men of the D Company 6 RAR
Who fought the Vietnamese in the rain
In a rubber plantation so out numbered
And those who died with their faces to the foe
Did you hear Long Tan Cross is home!
© Paul Warren Poetry...
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Categories:
vietnam war, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Free verse
Jungle Warfare - Vietnam War
The slickness of a blade
pressing against a throat....
the cold steel meeting tender flesh
blood drips and a body tumbles
the taste.... the sight... the sound....
all quite euphoric.....
Ripped clothes, smashed items,
echo screams, and the raging fires that glow throughout the night
The beauty.... the savagery.... the destruction
all quite euphoric.......
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Categories:
vietnam war, adventure, anger, dark, death, military, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Seeing Ghosts
Seeing Ghosts
I walk around the streets
Of old Saigon
Seeing sensing the undead
The ghosts of the war
That haunted life
So many years ago
So many people died
For a war
That never should have been fought
For reasons that are still not clear
A great tragedy unfolded
In a land half away
Around the world
The ghosts smile at me
And then they disappear
Leaving me in the present
Life goes on...
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Categories:
vietnam war, america, gothic, war,
Form:
Free verse
Too Much Is Plenty
Documentary on The War *
More and more and more!
America the Great.
Nam to Watergate,
With plenty more in store.
Don't know if I'm pessimistic
or just a shade realistic.
Politicians lie.
Easy sales. We buy!
Perhaps a bit simplistic.
It was "way back then."
Sam took it on the chin.
I'll watch it all.
I did my call,
But I wouldn't do it again
*18 hour (!!!) television series about the Vietnam War currently showing on PBS...
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Categories:
vietnam war, war,
Form:
Limerick