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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIETNAM Matches Found: 101 1962: VETERANS' DAY: UCLA STUDY REGIMEN: SOME INDIANA (HOOSIER KLAN REFLECTIONS), by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are counting the names of the vietnam veterans names on the mall Subject(s): Lin, Maya (b. 1959); Vietnam Veterans Memorial (washington, D.c.); African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks ACROSS THE FIELD OF THE OLD CORPORAL, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: That girl wears her hair in a chicken's tail Last Line: We'll have dried fish, pumpkin, tasty chicken Subject(s): Vietnam ARRANGED MARRIAGE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Mother wanted the dowry of rice Last Line: Like unmatched chopsticks, never equal Subject(s): Vietnam AS TOLD TO WALLACE TERRY, by THOMAS G. PALAIMA Poem Source First Line: Wallace told us %he interviewed his soldiers Last Line: Washington, d.C. %and vietnam Subject(s): Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Vietnam; Violence; War Correspondents ASYLUM, by RICK CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: The asylum was in the most hotly contested area of bien-hoa province Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Insanity; Soldiers; Vietnam AT THE EXILED KING'S RIVER PAVILION, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Evening, and all around the king's pavilion Last Line: To move these mountains and rivers, our nation? Subject(s): Vietnam AUTUMN, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Autumn rains blow Last Line: My lover stands where the bank is steep Subject(s): Vietnam AUTUMN LANDSCAPE, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves Last Line: Whoever sees this landscape is stunned. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Human Behavior; Nature; Rivers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); Vietnam; Wine; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature BARE ROCKS AND STARS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: I look at the sky and its stars scattered everywhere Last Line: When love is not fated, love has no life Subject(s): Vietnam BODY IS PAIN, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: At the outpost now for three years Last Line: In the well, one fish swims alone and free Subject(s): Vietnam CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam CAMBODIA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My son gabriel was born on may 14, 1970 during the vietnam war, a Last Line: What does this have to do with cambodia? Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnam CARP, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The stream rills softly. The carp Last Line: My heart swells only for you Subject(s): Vietnam CAT, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The car shattered the casserole Last Line: Head, wipes his whiskers, calling, 'meow' Subject(s): Vietnam CEMETERIES AT EAGLE BEACH (VIETNAM, 1971), by JIM FAIRHALL Poem Source First Line: I sometimes wander, after guard Last Line: They believe in their country's %mission. They are as young as me Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CLEAR SKIES, CLEAR SEA, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Others plant for profit Last Line: Clear skies, still sea, calm heart Subject(s): Vietnam COINS OF VAN-LICH, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Van-lich coins have four words Last Line: When we pass, you hide your face Subject(s): Vietnam COLONIAL TROOPS TRANSPORT, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The troopship whistles once. I still waver Last Line: Now the husband is north; the wife, south Subject(s): Vietnam COMPLAINING ABOUT THE SECOND WIFE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: A breeze stirs banana leaves behind the house Last Line: How should I draw the water or rinse the rice? Subject(s): Vietnam CONCUBINE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: As second wife, I never liked the first Last Line: Potatoes. Beans. Because my parents were poor Subject(s): Vietnam DIFFICULT LOVE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The french boats run in the new canal Last Line: The fish in quynh pond, hard to catch Subject(s): Vietnam EGRET'S DEATH AND FUNERAL PREPARATIONS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Egret died the other night Last Line: Bring back, slice fine, honor egret Subject(s): Vietnam EVENING, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Each evening, I watch the clouds flying Last Line: Of someone in white, red scarf on his shoulder Subject(s): Vietnam FIELD, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Crows land like horses neighs Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them. Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The GIRL WITH THE BINH TIEN HAIRDO, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Oh, that girl with the binh tien hairdo Last Line: Mint leaves underneath and, on top, sardines Subject(s): Vietnam GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The wind's moods & resolutions %erase tendrils Last Line: The idea %of the person who walks %on it %instants Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam GRAVITY, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Spring & timbre %of my own rhythms wild in grief Last Line: A grainy strangeness takes %& I in the crowds %cross the street Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam GROTTO VINH HA LONG (BAY OF THE LANDING DRAGON) TONKIN GULF, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The rower gaunt as his oar Last Line: Stalagmite meeting stalactites coincidences %taking forever to form Variant Title(s): Grott Subject(s): Boats; San Francisco; Vietnam; Water HARMONY IN THE KINGDOM, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: When the rice fields lie fallow Last Line: We shake off the jacket of the dust of life Subject(s): Vietnam HER LIFE RUNS LIKE A RED SILK FLAG, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because this evening miss hoang yen Last Line: The lotus gatherers sailed out %among their resuming white blossoms Subject(s): Vietnam HO CHI MINH CITY, by DAVID WILLIAM ROMTVEDT Poem Source First Line: I have traveled far and around the world. Certain Last Line: On my upturned face, my tongue stretched out ardently, aflame Subject(s): Vietnam HOMESICK BRIDE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: A wind sighs through the flame tree Last Line: I take up my bowl. I put it back down Subject(s): Vietnam HUNGER, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Chocolate breeze of calle mina: %oaxaca village of scorpions Last Line: The shadows %nor the dire air Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam HUSBAND AND WIFE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The oriole eats yellow berries Last Line: Husband and wife know each other's smell Subject(s): Vietnam HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 1. VIETNAM, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow cleaves Last Line: Bowl broken by his birth. Subject(s): Children; Vietnam; Childhood I KEPT SILENT, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source First Line: I kept silent when I was tortured by my enemy Last Line: Been stupid enough to open his mouth and ask for mercy? Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam IMPOSSIBLE TASKS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: See the sky? Two doves are chasing Last Line: Sell off two old buffaloes. Then I'll marry you Subject(s): Vietnam IN SEARCH OF HISTORY, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: We go in search of history and find Last Line: Fill the air with the heartbreak of history Subject(s): History; Vietnam; War KE-MO VILLAGE GIRL, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: I am a mo village girl Last Line: A torn shirt, when mended, will look like new Subject(s): Vietnam KIND-HEARTED AMERICANS ARE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The americans the way %they're so kindhearted Subject(s): Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KING STAR, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The king star trails nine lesser stars Last Line: I loved you since your mother met your father Subject(s): Vietnam LAKE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Not in cramped houses %with censorious walls Last Line: You gather from its incandescence %your world Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam LEAVING THE VILLAGE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Even when cross planks are nailed down Last Line: To the river for fish, to our sandy patch for melons Subject(s): Vietnam LETTERS, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: She has become like her mother %her insides blooming Last Line: The house too having read %them is preserved Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam LINKED VERSES, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The wind plays with the moon; the moon with the wind Last Line: The milky way is shallow in places, in some places, deep Subject(s): Vietnam LONG BIEN BRIDGE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Seeing the long bien bridge %on a pastel Last Line: The minute it comes you want %to escape Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam LOOKING OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Looking up at the sky Last Line: Do you know that I love you? Subject(s): Vietnam LOVE LAMENT, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Stepping into the field: sadness fills my deep heart Last Line: Who made this shallow creek that parts both sides? Subject(s): Vietnam LULLABY, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Little one, go to sleep. Sleep soundly Last Line: So our parents' faces can widen in smiles Subject(s): Vietnam MANDARIN WHO COULDN'T DO ANYTHING, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Each evening master lu sets his fish traps Last Line: Master lu sits down and folds his arms Subject(s): Vietnam MILITEROTICS, by CHARLES ORTLEB Poem Source First Line: In vietnam %eels live in the water Subject(s): Homosexuality; Men; Vietnam; Violence MODEL CHILDREN OF THE REGIME, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source Last Line: And they can kill %for a potato, a cassava root Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam - Communist Regime MOTHER EGRET, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Egrets bear egret sons Last Line: Brother eel dives. Mother flies off Subject(s): Vietnam MY LAI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An embassy's tall gate off a dirt road Last Line: Of their lives by what death holds apart. Subject(s): Death; Massacres; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The NEW VIET NAM, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Sweat of bolts & nails %muscle like steel & metal Last Line: Then past the cemetery a mountain of crosses %which doesn't stop rising Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam OUTPOST SOLDIER, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Here are only cliffs and crags Last Line: I've lived in the forest for three years Subject(s): Vietnam PAINTING, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The stream runs clear to its stones Last Line: I will find you by this picture Subject(s): Vietnam PHOENIXES AND SPARROWS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Phoenixes compete. So do sparrows Last Line: I can use men who are loyal, if not elegant Subject(s): Vietnam POLE AT THE VILLAGE PAGODA, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: A lantern sways from the banner pole Last Line: Wait for. Hope for. Remember. Love Subject(s): Vietnam RAVINE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: As they come Last Line: You point %to your head Subject(s): Bodies; Guns; San Francisco; Sleep; Vietnam RED CLOTH, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Sad, idle, I think of my dead mother Last Line: Men of one country should love one another Subject(s): Vietnam REPLIES, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: In the long river, fish swim off without a trace Last Line: Whoever has true love shall meet. But when? Subject(s): Vietnam SAIGON RIVER, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The saigon river slides past the old market Last Line: Recalling my motherhome, stirring deep love Subject(s): Vietnam SAND, FLIES, AND FISH, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: I take a glass of the expiring sun, sipping it Last Line: Born, where he died. It was probably best that %he didn't see anything else but this sun Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Fishing And Fishermen; Life; San Francisco; Sea; Vietnam SHIP OF REDEMPTION, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: The bell of linh mu pagoda tolls Last Line: A boat crosses to the western peace Subject(s): Vietnam SILENCE OF FORM, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The wind has little to do with this city, or this time Last Line: In the sand carried by the burning silent wind Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SINGER WITH A BAD VOICE, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Sing so dogs bark, oxen bolt Last Line: So the old coot crawls out of his hut Subject(s): Vietnam SO MOUNTAIN, SELS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Sad and lonely, I sew a bag that holds heaven Last Line: Just one who is perfectly pretty, perfectly nice Subject(s): Vietnam SONG OF THE CICADAS, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Knowing hunger %the fool doesn't starve %plans fall apart Last Line: Stammering our tongues %knowing hunger Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SOUNDING SA DEC, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Shock of body against shock of land and sea Last Line: In a syncopated instant %tangos before me Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam SUNDRY NOTES: 25, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source First Line: The party holds you down and you lie still Last Line: Two meals, oh for two meals! Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime SUNDRY NOTES: 48, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source First Line: The party's wrapped all dreams inside a shirt Last Line: It stores away all dreams and men in jails Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnam - Communist Regime SURVIVORS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came up to her, strangers in the street Last Line: Mirrors, for bargirls who ask no questions. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Vietnam; Dead, The TALKING ABOUT BIRDS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Listen. Listen here, all about birds and beasts Last Line: From far off, 'wash up. The journey's over' Subject(s): Vietnam TAO, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Sad, I blame mister sky Last Line: Fly with the pines, cool and lonely Subject(s): Vietnam TASTE, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Of a sonata adrift %your blanket the moon the sun Last Line: Love was something you invested %drawing your shadows on rock Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TESTING CONFUCIAN OBLIGATIONS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: King. Father. Mother. Husband. Wife Last Line: And with my hands, I'll save the boat' Subject(s): Vietnam THE BIRDS OF VIETNAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O bright, o swift and bright Last Line: Help it, I have so loved / this world Subject(s): Asia; Birds; Vietnam; Far East; East Asia; Orient THE CHAM TOWERS AT DA NANG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God-faces that once glared at the sun Last Line: Their great-grandparents could not recollect. Subject(s): Colonialism; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vietnam THE CUBAN IN VIETNAM, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits in the dark of trees, hunched Subject(s): Cuba; Vietnam; War THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers THINGS HUMAN, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: He collects human teeth and bones %nails and hair Last Line: Packets of stars %desiccated waiting for water Subject(s): Mankind; San Francisco; Vietnam THIS LAND'S NO JOY, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source Last Line: Only loudspeakers will spout joy Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime TIME AND THE PERFUME RIVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small buddhas smile above their blooms Last Line: Along the curves of the perfume. Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The TINY BIRD, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: A tiny bird with red feathers Last Line: Perhaps I must leave you Subject(s): Vietnam TOUR, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: An american's amazed, on his visit Last Line: And emerged where their blinded fathers stood Subject(s): Travel; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TRAIN, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: The train snakes sai gon-south %groping to his seat Last Line: From his blow %all over her back red embroidery %notice her eyes Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TRAJECTORY, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: In this art %you may liken me to a line Last Line: Of the poem %that has never been written Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam TRAVEL WITH JOY - GOODBYE TO JOY!, by NGUYEN CHI THIEN Poem Source Last Line: Somewhere, a storm is running wild? Subject(s): Vietnam - Communist Regime TUNNELS, by KATHERINE HARER Poem Source First Line: American tourists are looking for new ways to spend their dollars. They Last Line: Enlarge them, renovate history. This will be done Subject(s): History; Tourists; Travel; Vietnam TWILIGHT, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: She drags her gangrened foot two miles back %over the loam pass Last Line: I rise to walk in the wilderness %of the monkeys' rant Subject(s): San Francisco; Vietnam VENTURING OUT, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Each evening, ducks paddle, egrets fly Last Line: Go on, have a look at the sun's face, at the moon's Subject(s): Vietnam VIET NAM ON MY RETURN, by LE THI THAM VAN Poem Source First Line: Back, back again in viet nam Last Line: I stand there aghast %staring at myself Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam VIETNAM, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: You become pen pals with a comvict Last Line: Should have fought world war ii %and we should have gone to vietnam Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Unfaithfulness; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: It's not the monument, sad Last Line: They defended separates %before them like a sea Subject(s): Memory; Vietnam VIETNAM, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a pair of ray bans from the devil Last Line: And I'm still laughin Subject(s): Vietnam WHEN THE POLICY CHANGES, by DOAN VAN MINH Poem Source First Line: Whenever the policy changes Last Line: Don't bother about the time being %no matter what kind of life we are living now Subject(s): Human Rights; Social Problems; Vietnam - Communist Regime WHISKY LOVERS, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Soft winds circle the mountain head Last Line: Unaware, a tippler stumbles off into a pond Subject(s): Vietnam WICKED WOMEN, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Girl, stop pretending tragedy Last Line: Pinching her male when he's lost his shell Subject(s): Vietnam WOMAN'S HEART, by UNKNOWN+298 Poem Source First Line: Trang tu's legendary wife is very much the modern woman Last Line: But a woman's heart, though shallow, is hard to probe Subject(s): Vietnam |
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