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Subject: VIETNAMESE CONFLICT, 1961-1975 Matches Found: 924 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ####################################################################################################, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where two or three were flung together, or fifty Last Line: That helped me stagger to my feet, and flee Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 (END) OF SUMMER (1966), by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of murdering children Last Line: A sunbeam shoulders it, carries it away. %there is nothing left. %'please...Please' Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ...THE LIGHT THAT CANNOT FADE...', by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suzie, you picked a hell of a time Last Line: And every time I think of you, %you're young Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 1953, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: My older cousin returned from korea Last Line: I said, 'kachow! Kachow!' %as one by one, %I knocked them down Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 29-APR-97, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All morning a black-capped chickadee has done his best Last Line: The season signing its peace treaty once again Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A BLACK SOLDIER REMEMBERS, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My saigon daughter I saw only once Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Negroes; American Blacks A CONFIRMATION, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn douglas firs stride slowly Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A MAD FIGHT SONG FOR WILLIAM S. CARPENTER, 1966, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick on my feet in those novembers of my loneliness, Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Carpenter, William S., Jr.; Football; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A MOUSTACE DRAWN ON CAPTAIN PATTERSON, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietan; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A RELATIVE THING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ones you sent to fight a war Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 A SECOND-HAND ELEGY; FOR DOUGLAS DICKEY, PFC., USMC, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I be bitter?' Last Line: Exhaust the evening, waiting for something to happen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Heroism ACCIDENT, by JR. FRANK A. CROSS Poem Source First Line: It was up there Last Line: As we move %among our machines Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ACRES, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sighs sighs weave grass. %who watches now? Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ACT OF MERCY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: On my afternoon off Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ACTRESSES I'VE KNOWN GROW YOUNGER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wounds, I won three olympic gold medals Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Olympic Games; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER ASIA, by MICHAEL STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: Her poets die for the mountains Last Line: After asia you can call me a man Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER MANY MISSED DATES, YOU FINALLY COME, by HOANG NHUAN CAM Poem Source First Line: After many missed dates, you finally come Last Line: But the autumn chrysanthemum has taken me away Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AFTER THE FALL OF SAIGON, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: An afternoon storm has hit Last Line: Trying to bite off her tongue Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Variant Title(s): After The Fal Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER THE MAD SONGS OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Squeezing a half-eaten peach, %I rub the other palm Last Line: I hear mosquitoes sing Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): After The Fall Of Saigon; After The Noise Of Saigo Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AFTER THE VIETNAM WAR, by STEVEN FORD BROWN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %on windless nights Last Line: Their cries are almost human Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AGAIN, by THOMAS BRUSH Poem Source First Line: Though the war has been over for years and nothing is dropping out Last Line: And sacks of food, the men gone, and the torn sheets %over everything Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AGENT ASH, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: The mp at oakland airport Last Line: With a left, a left, %drop and fire Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ALABASTER STORK, by TRAN DANG KHOA Poem Source First Line: When the rain blackens the sky %in the east Last Line: Take wing to proclaim the rain again Subject(s): Storks; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ALL OF THIS, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moist smell under the oleanders %water that has passed through pines Last Line: It can hold everything, even as I forget myself in it Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today? Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests ALL QUIET, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How come nobody is being bombed today? Last Line: At which I could have voiced a protest, %running my whole family off a cliff Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ALL THE HUNGRY LITTLE DOGS, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday Last Line: All the hungry little dogs %slink away and try not %to capture our attention, %today Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBROSE: NAM, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudgatherer %with muscularf tautness Last Line: How many people were killed in the war, both sides Subject(s): Cambodia; Communism; Poetry And Poets; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 10, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: The mind could stretch out here Last Line: It's time to turn %your head Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 11, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: All around me Last Line: On a gravel playground Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 12, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: From the ferns they emerge Last Line: As he leans above me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 13, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: I have moved to the suburbs Last Line: Will wash my face clean Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 14, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: I combed my hair in ducktails Last Line: And we both have much %to learn Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 2, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: There is no place to hide Last Line: So many in one short day %to paradise Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 4, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: How is it the stomach knows first Last Line: When no amount of running %makes things move Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 5, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: How strange to come down %in mud Last Line: The clatter of angels %scattering on the wind Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 6, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: I should have seen this land Last Line: And stayed where I belonged Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 7, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: Mothers and fathers of the west Last Line: Like weeds in the garden %of our innocence Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 8, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: We stop at the edge of knee-deep water Last Line: And no one looks guilty %but me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMBUSH OF THE FOURTH PLATOON: 9, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: Give us this day %a plane ticket back to san francisco Last Line: A slug from somebody's %spiked canteen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMERICAN HERO, by BILL JONES Poem Source First Line: A reluctant war story Last Line: A long - long %time ago Subject(s): Ranch Life; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMNESIA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there was a world more disturbing than this Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AMNESIA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If there was a world more disturbing than this Last Line: Fly up to them to be black %and useful to the wind Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO, MA, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source Last Line: Would you change channels? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANGER MEANT NOTHING TO THEM, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their most precious treasure: %their compassion, their anger Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANH PATHET, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I kneel Last Line: I don't know why anyone %want to do this. %she not even know%there a war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANNA GRASA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came home from vietnam Last Line: She held me so close, %both of us could be inside Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANOREXIA, by PETER HOLLENBECK Poem Source First Line: Something drained our blood and it wasn't the leeches Last Line: The civilized restraints disintegrate Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANOTHER DOG DAY, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: No... %he was not my friend Last Line: He only smiled %and I had not the heart to say %'your dog isdead.' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ANSWERING ADORNO, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Since you doomed poetry nothing has changed Last Line: Where shade and wind hold out against the sun Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 APO 96225, by LARRY ROTTMANN Poem Source First Line: A young man once went off to war Last Line: So, after a while, the young man wrote, 'sure rains a lot here' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 APRIL 30, 1975; FOR BUI NGOC HUONG, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The evening nixon called his last troops off Last Line: You wash away the dust of life Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARCHAEOLOGIST, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: If in some future time the archaeologist Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARKANSAS RIVER IS TURGID, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Head east for kansas, make arrows %send word to the ira Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARMED FORCES, by LUCY LAKIDES Poem Source First Line: At midnight, I wake to a breeze Last Line: The plane that brought me over %took you away Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARMED FORCES DAY, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source First Line: We fuckin never had a fuckin chance Last Line: Us airborne division spent %four days securing it Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARMING OF THE BOMB, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: And god said, 'be fruitful and multiply' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARMY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: My dollar can buy a loaf of bread Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARRIVAL, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: There it is again Last Line: And my coat too thin %for this cold Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARRIVAL, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I have waited in silence Last Line: With tears on cheeks, %half in disbelief %that tonight, tonight, %I'll be sleeping %with the man I l Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARS POETICA 1, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another day gone and not prepared for death Last Line: The light like a knife in the brain Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARS POETICA 2, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can no longer abide the self-serious Last Line: Even if it is through the peacock's tail of our lies Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARS POETICA 3, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We think we are talking to the others at our table Last Line: But they must be the right words Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARS POETICA BLUES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The world %and its counterweight Last Line: Water. Says salt %says stone Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ARTS OF LOVE AND HYDROLOGY AS PRACTICED IN HANOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the monsoon Last Line: The broad green %fields of the delta Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ASIAN ACCOUNT, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: John was at georgetown university in 1965 Last Line: But john lost the asian account... %and the company folded Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT 59 BA TRIEU STREET, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: I ate away the minutes over coffee, waiting Last Line: So many locks. Not one key that fits Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT A MARCH AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspapers rise high in the air over maryland Last Line: Like a man anointing himself Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT A MARCH AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR (LATER VERSION), by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspapers rise high in the air over maryland Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests AT A MARCH AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR (LATER VERSION), by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Newspapers rise high in the air over maryland Last Line: Now we pour it over our heads Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT PENN'S LANDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I do not live in an ivory tower Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT THE TOMB OF TU DUC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a man of tangled inclinations Last Line: And never a child Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AT THE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON, D.C., by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: Today, everything takes Last Line: Deeper than any natural %shadow, darker than avenues %memoried in hidden trees Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 AUTUMN, WAR, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I sit here somewhere between october and november Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BABYLON, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wear my feet off %down to the knees in this city Last Line: Otherwise I'd be in an ambulance trapped in traffic %siren rising Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BABYLON II, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can't stop to figure %I'm too busy with all the Last Line: And the blood black dirt %that moment and no more Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BAC HA, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: As g-5 put it, bac ha hamlet was a good Last Line: Walking nights %out there, you'd be under somebody'd rifle sights Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BAGLEY'S HOOCH, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First time on night shift Last Line: Try and wake me up Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BAGLEY'S LAST CHIPS, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: John when you were on r & r Last Line: You would have to use a broom handle Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BALLAD OF THE CHILD, DEAD AFTER THE BOMBING, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The winter sun had just begun Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BALLAD OF THE DEAD SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Now he has gone so far, so far Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Last Line: Stacks of bill rising in piles on the walls. %how far? Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BARBERSHOP QUARTET, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The turks hanged a kid %outside their gate Last Line: Hey sarge... Are the turks on our side?' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BASKET CASE, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I waited eighteen years to become a man Last Line: Who will see me till I die deliriously %from the spreading sepsis that was once my balls Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BATTLE LINES, by JOHN C. SCHAFER Poem Source First Line: Now you've learned not to let your eyes %rest too long on a yellow face Last Line: And hands still reach across the breach %for things more warm than charity Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BATTLE NEWS, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: For breakfast - war and coffee. Pilots Last Line: Means more than trying not to die, %but if it does, what then? What now? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BEAST, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I liked you Last Line: Hanging %from the tip %of his nose Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BEAUTIFUL LADIES, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BEDTIME STORY, by GUSTAV HASFORD Poem Source First Line: Sleep, america. %silence is a warm bed Last Line: Bad dreams are something you ate. %so sleep, you mother Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BEER, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Had to send to saigon for it and what Last Line: Soon %all of us were out there staring at that truck Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Beer; Drinks And Drinking; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BELLS, by VU HU'U CHINH Poem Source First Line: I love to listen to the call of the pagoda bell Last Line: This world of ours %humans Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BENEDICTION, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Men, the chaplain said Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BETWEEN DAYS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Expecting to see him anytime Last Line: Asleep, as the screen dissolves %into days between snow Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BETWEEN PASSION AND THE NEXT THING, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot possibly make love again Last Line: But mostly they say, how well do you suffer? Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BILLY AND DANNY AND LARRY. AND ME, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He was as fortunate as all of us Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BISCUITS, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: I've seen what a grenade can do Last Line: Pop...I flinch %in the middle of a firefight %in the middle of my kitchen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLACK SOLDIER REMEMBERS, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My saigon daughter I saw only once Last Line: Silly hats she sells americans and %I have nothing she needs but the %sad smile she already has Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLACK WINTER, by FRANK STEWART Poem Source First Line: The time between us stretches out Last Line: And who did we leave there %in the south, scattered on the land like coal? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLIND SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: By sight we're neither known nor know Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLIZZARD OF SIXTY-SIX, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snow came early here, and hard Last Line: And the snow keeps falling Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLOOD TRAIL, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I had a man in my sights Last Line: It was a funny war. %I shot a man. %I killed a woman Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLUES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love won't behave. I've tried %all my life to keep it chained up Last Line: Now I'm stark raving sober %and I say, come on over here and love me Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLUES FOR UNEMPLOYED MERCENARIES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All I wanted was a goddam cab Last Line: An ice bullet man makes %by the way, you like my hat? Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLUES FOR UNEMPLOYED SECRET POLICE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They know deep down %how the world goes Last Line: A good torturer can always find a job Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight they load up Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Beach; Coast; Shore BOAT PEOPLE, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight they load up Last Line: A whole world away, half-drunk %on what they hunger to become Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Seashore; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BODY BAGS, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know that troops in battle Last Line: But when they were filled, %they looked like yesterday's suburban garbage Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BODY COUNT: THE DEAD AT TAY NINH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We had no place to put them Last Line: Mopped up the mess for chow Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BOMBING AT SENG PHAN, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: Far from seng phan %I hear bombs exploding day and night Last Line: In the battle zone, %the sound of bombing seems so small Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BONES, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their fingers greasy %and slick Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRANDED KRAITS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blackburn saw him first Last Line: Cambodia, the rains, june's weeping light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAK FROM THE BUSH, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The south china sea drives in Last Line: Into the whitecaps, %laughing Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BREAKING COVER, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grew up in the church. I learned Last Line: Like a coffin bearng a flag Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Peace Movements BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: "to discover the country of our waking Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons & Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Shoah; Judaism BREAKING OPEN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come into the room. The room stands waiting Last Line: To discover the country our waking %breaking open Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Prisons And Prisoners; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRIDE WELCOMES THE RETURNING SERVICEMAN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The worlds are made of wind and rain Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BRIEF ENCOUNTER (APOLOGIES TO THOMAS HARDY), by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: If he were here today--I'd say Last Line: Twenty years ago today-- %I shot a soldier--dead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: There was me, %the vietnamese Last Line: And a shriek that sobered me %where I stood Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BUMMER, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We were going single file Last Line: Sell the farm %and go home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BURNING SHIT AT AN KHE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Into that pit / I had to climb down Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BURNING SHIT AT AN KHE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into that pit %I had to climb down Last Line: Until I'm covered and there's only one smell, %one word Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BUSINESS AS USUAL, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: We flew into the valley in a dozen birds Last Line: It was business as usual. %it was a lot like hunting, %excepwe were hunted, too Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BUT I THIS LOVE'S REWARD TO BE DEPOSED, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BUY ONE - GET ONE FREE, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I bought a war Last Line: It is mine for life, %and it fits me like an old raincoat, %wet, with holes to let in the cold Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BY A FATHER, TO HIS SON, DEAD ON THE BATTLEFIELD, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Seed of my seed that lies Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CALIBAN IN BLUE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Off again, %thrusting up at scald Last Line: Into the martial lascivious blue %of uncle's sky Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CALL, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: It is now morning and I am not ready Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAMBODIA, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One man shall smile one day and say goodbye Last Line: And still they die. And still the war goes on Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War CAMBODIA, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Peace now,' the leaves clattered Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAN THO, by HERBERT KROHN Poem Source First Line: Can tho, favela of crowing cocks Last Line: Like can tho's women nursing %fatherless children whom you never knew Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN BENDER (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: They clog the roads like locusts Last Line: Motars explode in the distance %where black smoke curls %around bushes %like snakes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN BENDER (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We lost because we failed to win Last Line: We trained our soldiers to kill vietnamese %but never once taught them %how to eat with chopsticks % Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN JAMES LESON, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: His corpse was returned %to the u.S. In march, 1974, from hanoi Last Line: He said before he died his natural death Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN MAINERO, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Nva tanks burst through gates Last Line: I think of ten years, %fifty thousand lives, %wonder why we can't at least like the french, %march o Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN WINDSLOW (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I love paintings, especially Last Line: I salute, march from the office, %walk numbly %into september rain Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN WINDSLOW (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Seconds before sirens Last Line: I doubt %I'll ever again have the strength %to close my eyes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAPTAIN WINDSLOW (3), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I stare at replacements Last Line: I scream unashamed, %foot stomping yells till my voice %goeshoarse %and I slump in my seat %living, Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CARP, by MICHAEL STEPHENS Poem Source First Line: As a carp ascends to heaven Last Line: By morning it becomes a dragon Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CASSANDRA FORETELLS HIS DEATH, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: All winter I have waited, while the trees Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CASUALTIES OF WAR, by MARCIA GALE KESTER Poem Source First Line: Twenty years after vietnam Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CAUGHT IN MY GIVEN NATURE LIKE SOME POOR, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 CENERIZIO'S SERVICE, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The only time all of us Last Line: But you know it was close very close Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: VIET NAM, 1968, by GEARY HOBSON Poem Source First Line: An eagle glides above the plain Last Line: Into the smoke of his past Subject(s): Native Americans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CEREMONY, by RICHARD M. MISHLER Poem Source First Line: The 'copter lays flat the rice stalks Last Line: The cricket's chirp fills his marrow Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHAPLAIN FLANAGAN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: When I first came to vietnam Last Line: Only then will we be able to survive %the smut and ugliness of this war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHAU DUONG, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We run across field Last Line: I afraid. %we not find %papa-san anywhere Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHAU PATHET, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I five feet four, ninety-six pound Last Line: I scared, but not tell %what I not know. %don't think I ever again %swim in vung tau Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHIEU HOI, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Scrape a flounder Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHILD, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: A vietnamese child Last Line: Wails %at bullets, mortars, %bombs, %hoping %somehow %someone %will stop the noise Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHILDREN OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always at night I found them Last Line: Passing it all to children %who grabbed it and backed away Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHILDREN'S TET, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crowds so thick on tran hung dao Last Line: Tonight the city is filled with dragons Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHRISTMAS, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source First Line: The hessian in his last letter home Last Line: Trenton, there we rest till the new year Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHRISTMAS BELLS, SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buses came late, each driver sullen Last Line: The bells all through the night Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHRISTMAS EVE ON NUI-BA-DEN, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The jesus star turns night to day Last Line: Tonight there's brotherhood--tomorrow, death Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CHUNG'S HOUSE: THE LIBERATION OF HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is one way the war ends Last Line: Who taught with her tongue %impossible things Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITATIONS, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: When father juggs Last Line: Neither would speak %but all of us knew: %mission accomplished, %medals for two Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITIES OF DUST, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The click of footsteps down the hall Last Line: (you know the sound), a life disappearing in dust and haze Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITIZENS CRY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Listen! The people! Raising their voices Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CITY KID, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: One of the few times Last Line: I had watched my own mother %kill beaucoup chickens Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CO MAY FLOWER, by NGUYEN THI XUAN QUYNH Poem Source First Line: The sands deserted, river high, trees in a daze Last Line: Who can tell the heart's changes? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLLECT CALL, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Good afternoon, general ball Last Line: I'm convinced they'd like to get rid of us Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLONEL MIDDLETON, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: At west point I was near the top of my class Last Line: Where sandbags and footlockers %line the four walls %and my .38 caliber lies %loaded in my bed Subject(s): U.s. - Military Academy; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLONEL NORTHCOTT (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: They blindfolded me, hit my head with guns Last Line: Intothis hellhole %will escort me first class %back to wine,mozart, %and tables covered with cloth Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLONEL NORTHCOTT (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: It's easy to talk of patriotism and duty Last Line: Va hospital %where day after day %I see cripples and amputees %with no where to go Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLONIAL ALBUM, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They saw mirrored %in the gleaming teeth Last Line: And the children play on them as if %they had never been more than piles of stone Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COME BEFORE THE RAIN FALLS, by HA DUC TRONG Poem Source First Line: Come before the rain falls Last Line: Then I remembered ... The horn was calling for me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COME WITH THAT HAND THAT ONLY LOVE CAN KNOW, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COMING HOME, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There is something I want to say Last Line: This will always be light %and zoned residential Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COMMITMENT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: All that I am or soon will be Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COMMON WORRIES FOR AN UNCOMMON MAN, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: If vietnam taught me anything Last Line: These are trivial things, %uninteresting to many, %but these are my things, %they keep me from pulli Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COMPANY CLERK, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Let's hear it for alphonso Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONCISE HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1965-1968, by RON WEBER Poem Source First Line: The air in the room is dark and greasy Last Line: After lyndon gets blue in the face, %that he knows he's made a mistake Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONFIRMATION, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Solemn douglas firs stride slowly Last Line: And always, in our need Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONFIRMED KILL, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I've had to listen to bad jokes all day Last Line: I hope this is still %my one confirmed kill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONICAL HAT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A moment of awkwardness Last Line: The cool circle of its shade Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONNOISSEUR'S GUIDE TO THE BAY AREA: 3. NATURAL AIR CONDITIONING, by GILBERT SORRENTINO Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They don't like you they come Last Line: Wallace stegner on the floor Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Disasters; Earthquakes; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CONVERSION, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fire chief's daughter led them, trip and stumble Last Line: Showed them the fire she kept, smoldering in a bible Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL CHARLES CHUNGTU, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: This is what the war ended up being about Last Line: That was not a village any more %was our village Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL GONZALES, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We wit in mud Last Line: How can we fight vc %when we can't even stay dry? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL KEVIN SPINA, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He came of a sharecrop farm family Last Line: Someday there will be another war, %and I'm going to be a marine Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL QUINN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Before getting to nam Last Line: Arvn line a field of grass, %nva piled where we shot them. %gi's are zipped %in dark, green bags Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL STONE, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Every night sergeant thornhill Last Line: Tuesday I'll be back in the bunker, %all I can say is, %thank god for them crickets and frogs Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL VENN (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Bombardment continues day after day Last Line: In a room without lights %almost collapsing himself %from the intolerable pressure %of trying to pla Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORPORAL VENN (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I saved many lives on the battlefield Last Line: I think of smiles, %broad and gleaming like christmas, %turning sad when I told them %I was leaving Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CORRUPTION, by WENDY WILDER LARSEN Poem Source First Line: In rangoon we stayed in the same house Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COSMOS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: My flowers bloom forever Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COUNTING SMALL-BONED BODIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's count the bodies over again Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COUNTING SMALL-BONED BODIES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's count the bodies over again Last Line: We could fit %a body into a finger ring, for a keepsake forever Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COUSIN, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I grew up staring at the picture of him Last Line: He'd known hemingway! %I tried hard but couldn't find a thing to say Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COYOTE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Angle iron of darkness %crossing the road Last Line: Your friends the crows %understand %from the ancient dialects of hunger Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CRITICAL THEORY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A professor came to our village last year to study dialect. He Last Line: Clothes and passport and fed him some dried goat Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 CROWS, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hunch in the trees %to gossip Last Line: And snow sifts %down from the tree Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Crows; Night; Trees; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Winter DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I know exactly where I was on july 20, 1969 Last Line: Waiting until I could hear the news %about mankind's first glimpse %of the dark side of the moon Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DARKNESS IN PARADISE, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: On day five Last Line: Realize it will take more than luaus %ot make us forget %whowe are, where we'll be %in three days Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DARLING WALK SOFTLY, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Safeguard my purple heart Last Line: Safeguard all my worthless medals Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD AT QUANG TRI, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Captain gungho, my men Last Line: The grass we walk on %won't stay down Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD DON'T CARE, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: If payday came Last Line: I guess we felt %that emotions might make us weak, %and let us drown in a sea %of futility and sorro Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD FOR TWO YEARS, ERHART ARRANGES TO MEET ME IN A DREAM, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the cyclo driver Last Line: Rainwater guttered along the curb Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAD SOLDIERS, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When his excellency prince norodom chantaraingsey Last Line: Either the lunches or the dead soldiers Subject(s): Cambodia; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEAR AMERICA, by ROBERT PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Dear america you worry me Last Line: The last mile is a lonesome road, %go bomb a canoe Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEATH MARCH, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: Not the numbers - but the sound Last Line: Bearing our constitutional %wounds Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEATH OF THE SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: What do I see! Those pinwheels in the sky ...' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEATH OF THE SUBMARINE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Though it is very strong Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEFOLIATION - AGENT ORANGE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I am slow to learn Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEGREES OF NATURE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The sun leans on the window Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEO NGANG: CROSSING PASS, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: Enemy ships shell night after night Last Line: Never knowing the pass ran straight ahead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DERANGED, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just like they came, %civilized, souless Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DESPAIR, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: As though something knew bly was coming Last Line: There is so much snow Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DEW, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: On a routine patrol Last Line: Flopping around %in the elephant grass %damp with april dew Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DIEN BIEN PHU, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nurse on the battlefield Last Line: Blank chart of %amnesia Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DISGRACE, by DAVID HALL Poem Source First Line: If juan rodriquez is alive today Last Line: Your friends who stayed %went far beyond disgrace Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DISNEY: THE WALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: I'll never forget the way snow hite Last Line: In the hands of the disney corporation: %it's the most american thing we could have done Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Disney, Walt (1901-1966); Patriotism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DIVISION, by PHAM NGOC CANH Poem Source First Line: There will be steel divisions. %everywhere Last Line: Marching in step and %singing Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DO BINH, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We on big boat Last Line: I hope %we get there soon. %I scared on people %push me down Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DOCTOR ABLE (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I often think about Last Line: Looking into my wife's eyes %simply trying to say, %'I have orders for vietnam.' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DOCTOR ABLE (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I've always been a good physician Last Line: It's only since I came here %I realize %it's easy to speak of god's will %when talking of others Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DON'T FRET NOW, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warriors will keep alive in the blood Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DOPER'S DREAM, by DON RECEVEUR Poem Source First Line: The mind %becomes Last Line: Rise toward the surface Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DOWNED BLACK PILOT LEARNS HOW TO FLY, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the war is over Last Line: I'll wait and see if they've declared %war on me - or just america Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): African Americans; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DOWNTOWN RESIDENTIAL AN TAN, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In that catholic neighborhood again Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRAFT BOARD, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Here is where the young man comes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRAGONFISH, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Brown men shock the brown pool with nets Last Line: A land in the shape of the dragonfish Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DREAM, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In this heart %which is our america Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DREAMS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me, %I think as far as california, %I do Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRIVING THROUGH MINNESOTA DURING THE HANOI BOMBINGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drive between lakes just turning green Subject(s): Minnesota; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRIVING THROUGH MINNESOTA DURING THE HANOI BOMBINGS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drive between lakes just turning green Last Line: In the helicopter like wild animals, %shot in the chest, taken back to be questioned Subject(s): Minnesota; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DROWNING IN LOVE'S BRIGHT STREAMS, I THOUGHT TO CALL, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRUM AND FIRE, by NGUYEN XUAN THAM Poem Source First Line: Drum and fire Last Line: Drum and fire. %drum and fire Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DRUNK AT THE SYDNEY AIRPORT, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anaheim express %right this way Last Line: We're going back to disneyland %sometime today Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 DUSTY PLAYS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Throbbing aches %and bullets Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EAGLE IN THE LAND OF OZ, by DON RECEVEUR Poem Source First Line: I was talking Last Line: Lions and tigers and bears Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EASTER '68, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I have seen the paschal today Last Line: Only my words on their mouths Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EATING THE FOREST, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Background is instrumental Last Line: Where the moon sinks %and bring the darkness home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EDEN AFTER DARK, by RICHARD SHELTON Poem Source First Line: Today %must have been sunday Last Line: And fall forward %into the arms of despair Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ELEGY FOR PETER, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That night we drank warm whiskey Last Line: To this unraveling Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EMILY, MY DAUGHTER: 1, by NGUYEN KIM THANH Poem Source First Line: Emily, come with me Last Line: I take you with me and tonight you will return to your mother Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EMILY, MY DAUGHTER: 2, by NGUYEN KIM THANH Poem Source First Line: Washington %dusk Last Line: For the fire, I shine %for the truth Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EPILOGUE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I have no hope, for you have taken hope Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EPITAPH FOR THE BOMB, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: As we pull the hand of the living Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EVE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I put forth my hands to god Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EVEN THIS ONE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here, a whirlpool %of exiles drowning him Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EXAMPLES; FOR MY VILLAGE'S WAR WIDOWS, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU Poem Source First Line: Time flows into the huge antique vase. Like locusts, the widows disappear Last Line: Further and further, to the place where there are no examples Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Widows And Widowers EXCUSE IS EASY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But they were shallow eyes %called men. %billy? %billy? Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 EYE OF THE GHOST, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: The ghost shivers in one corner of the room Last Line: From its world on the other side of the sky, %you are the ghost Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FALL OF DA NANG, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Tonight the newspapers report %the air-lift evacuation of da nang has failed Last Line: It's a saturday night, the end of march Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FALLING, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are shackled to one another. No %the pig wears the angel Last Line: The same words aching from the throat Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FAR OTHER ARMIES, OTHER WARS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: These ruins stand that once were greece Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FARAWAY PLACES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This daughter watching ducks knows Last Line: Her eyes %so full of ducks Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FARMER NGUYEN, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we swept through farmer nguyen's hamlet Last Line: They took more rice, and beat you, %made you carry supplies Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FARMER TRU, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I have cousin in north Last Line: I learn. %vc be here %when american go. %all I want is raise chickens Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FARMER'S SONG AT CAN THO, by HERBERT KROHN Poem Source First Line: What is a man but a farmer Last Line: How can peace come to a gree country? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FATHER, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: In this place there are so many Last Line: The great bends and twists of the forests to get to this place Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FEEDING, by LOU LIPSITZ Poem Source First Line: We sit in the darkness Last Line: Which is no small triumph %in a starved time Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FERRY CROSSING NORTH OF HAI PHONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up and down the coast Last Line: River and road break free Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FERRYMAN'S SONG AT BINH MINH, by HERBERT KROHN Poem Source First Line: Vendors of green oranges - vendors of immaculate ducks Last Line: Riding the back of the dragon - crossing the rach can tho Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIELD GRADE, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Called over to a company first of the sixth Last Line: Their uniforms still very very clean Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIFTY GUNNER, by JR. FRANK A. CROSS Poem Source First Line: It came to his palms Last Line: Ripped the flesh %from the running targets Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FINDING MY WAY BACK, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Morning. %two sparrows sit on the tin roof Last Line: There was nothing else %I could do Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRE IN THE LAMPS: 1: THE LAMPS, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: You and I, we are crossing to the other side of the bridge Last Line: Try to take our hearts away Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRE IN THE LAMPS: 2: THE BLACKOUT, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: You and I, we are crossing to the other side of the bridge Last Line: We move forward through what fantastic sounds Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRE IN THE LAMPS: 3: LIGHTING THE LAMPS, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: You and I, we are crossing to the other side of the bridge Last Line: By the light of our burning lanterns Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRE SUPPORT BURK, by STEVE DENNING Poem Source First Line: For two nights %the cong overrun our wire Last Line: As far as the riverbank, his head %under water Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST CASUALTY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They carried him slowly Last Line: Trailing the jungle floor Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST NIGHT, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid to touch her Last Line: Rice paddies and rockets %fade %as nightmares from childhood. %I unbutton her blouse, %cradle her in Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FIRST PERSON - 1981, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There are days I have to pretend Last Line: Through %this tangle Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLAGS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Flags should be brown, dun as the dusk they shed Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Even the most beautiful Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLIGHT FROM VIETNAM, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Having survived nui-ba-den Last Line: Yet I fly it every day %feel the restraining straps %hear the engines drone... %see the face of god Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FLOATING PETALS, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: See: here, the bougainvillea Last Line: Sealed in napalm Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FNG, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With one after another %of my friends or comrades Last Line: I talk too much %give me tell me plee %what he say Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FNG (FUCKING NEW GUY), by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Rather than shit near where he slept Last Line: The claymore will kill anything, %instantly, and for a certainty Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOG AT FORT CARSON, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I bought a pound of marijuana Last Line: You guys should be more like the cowboy; %you never hear him complain' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOLK FESTIVAL IN THE AUTUMN NIGHT, by NGUYEN KIM THANH Poem Source First Line: Bright autumn night, I hear the voices of the quang ho singers Last Line: You'll come back as promised Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FONDA JANE--I DON'T THINK SO, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Was it a publicity stunt? Last Line: Mother has poisoned your pacifier %and daddy is dead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOOD PICKER OF SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rubbish like compost heaps burned every hour Last Line: Dream to feed them, they were gone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): The Food Pickers Of Saigo Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOOTPRINTS IN ELEPHANT GRASS, by HO THANH CONG Poem Source First Line: All afternoon we walk in elephant grass Last Line: Marking the path to the front for others to follow Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full 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 FOR ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, by RICHARD LOURIE Poem Source First Line: This is not easy to write about - it involves Last Line: Gestures - clinging together in the ditch Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR FRIENDS MISSING IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into this tunnel of dirt Last Line: And let the truth ring %like a gong: he's gone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR HARPER, KILLED IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they brought you down Last Line: Flesh impacted %in the common ground Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR KELLY, MISSING IN ACTION, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you disappeared %over the north Last Line: Dead as dublin, %far from home? Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR THE MINORITY, by ROBERT PETERSON Poem Source First Line: Our objections to the war Last Line: Even so, perhaps we no long %belong here Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FOR THE OLD MAN, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man was mumbling Last Line: Americans %feel strange Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FORGIVE ME, LORD, THAT HAVE SO GREAT A SIN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRAGGING, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Five men pull straws Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRAGMENT FROM A POEM, 'ANOTHER LATE EDITION', by OLGA CABRAL Poem Source First Line: I saw the enemy, a seven-year-old boy Last Line: We are strangers here ay a million bucks a day Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRAGMENT OF A LETTER, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Tommy, all the short timers say Last Line: And put it in the mail Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRANKFURT,1972, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A man and a woman lie in each other's arms Last Line: Its stone wings and lift off into the swirling snow Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FREE FIRE ZONE, by IGOR BOBROWSKY Poem Source First Line: Trembling and sobbing Last Line: You ever bothered %ever being born Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FREEDOM BIRD, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I left vietnam aboard a hospital plane Last Line: But, the way I left wasn't bad. %I laughed half-way to japan Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 FRESCO: DEPARTURE FOR AN IMPERIALIST WAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand there weeping in the stained daylight Last Line: Weeping, their arms embrace the only country they love Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Death; Imperialism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Anti-war Protests; Dead, The GAIT SONG, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Over the years I've grown used to the limp Last Line: I invent auto accidents, %factory mishaps, %shark attacks, %depending on audience and price of bread Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GARDEN IN THE CITY, by LU'U QUANG VU Poem Source First Line: In the city there is a cool garden Last Line: There, in fall, white clouds always return Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GELATIN FACTORY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No need to look for the place Last Line: Late on sundays, children %circled and ate Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GENERAL MCNULTY, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Of course we're winning the war Last Line: We've got the best muscle and material %on earth. %it's just a matter of time Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GENERAL STRICKLAND, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I say if we're going to fight a war Last Line: Maybe then %we would have gotten somewhere Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GESTURE IN TRAFFIC, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The tag on the back of my car Last Line: I drive home grateful for the twisted leg Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GETTIN' STRAIGHT, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: It was a warm september night Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GHOST, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: He called after midnight Last Line: He says I must remember %the night we saw the ghost Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GIRL AT THE CHU LAI LAUNDRY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All this time I had forgotten Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GIRL AT THE CHU LAI LAUNDRY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All this time I had forgotten Last Line: Beautiful with her facts Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GIRL NAMED 'TOO TALL', by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: From my jeep in a convoy Last Line: Before she's free to scrub their clothes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GLIDING BASKETS, by JR. FRANK A. CROSS Poem Source First Line: Eight six foxtrot - eight six foxtrot Last Line: And they crumble with the woman in blue Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GO ASK THE DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier, past full retreat, is marching out of the grave Last Line: You have climbed to the moon on a ladder of dead men's bones! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The GO MARKET, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hieu and I return from the market %and I was pleased as punch Last Line: You can work in my mess hall forever Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GOLDEN REVOLVER, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: You finally jerk the barrel Last Line: Holstering an american dream Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GOLDSMITH'S DAUGHTER, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Go, buddha. %go to the cau dai temple Last Line: She wept the floorboards clean Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GOOD AND EVIL, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Hot in the east the sun came up Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVE AND THE SANDALWOOD TREE: 1: IN MEMORIAM, by NGUYEN DUC MAU Poem Source First Line: The earth over hung's grave is raked by bombs Last Line: I read a thousand deep and moving things Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVE AND THE SANDALWOOD TREE: 2: SACRIFICE, by NGUYEN DUC MAU Poem Source First Line: Death came from the enemy's guns Last Line: Is a hand pointing us on to the enemy Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVE AND THE SANDALWOOD TREE: 3: LEAVING FOR THE BATTLE, by NGUYEN DUC MAU Poem Source First Line: The sandalwood tree takes its deep fragrance from the earth Last Line: To perfume the earth, to perfume the earth and sky Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVES AT QUANG TRI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Too late, tanks circle the old french tower Last Line: The enemy we stayed Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRAVES REGISTRATION, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: From the trucks we see Last Line: The trucks will be back soon Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GREEN HELL, GREEN DEATH, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: Green hell of the jungle Last Line: Green jungle: green hellfire: green death Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GRIEF, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The words from then %talk like that. %believe it Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GROUP SHOT, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: So they passed Last Line: To woo the world Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUARD DUTY, BIEN HOA, 1968, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was just another soldier Last Line: No one sleeps anymore Subject(s): Guard Duty; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUERRILLA WAR, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's practically impossible / to tell civilians Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUERRILLA WAR, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's practically impossible %to tell civilians Last Line: After a while %you quit trying Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUN CONTROL, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Too late my friend Last Line: A simple equation for a complex time. %besides...Cbs needs the work. %bang put that on the boobtube Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GUNS, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: When the m-16 rifle had a stoppage Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HAIKU, by NICK VIRGILIO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Viet nam monument Last Line: My dead brother's name Alternate Author Name(s): Virgilio, Nicholas Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HALF, by VO VAN TRU'C Poem Source First Line: I wake in the middle of a dream Last Line: Here and not here, a distant illusion within Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HARVEST MOON, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: Pumpkins' crooked grins Last Line: As a field of hay goes up in flames Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HAULING OVER WOLF CREEK PASS IN WINTER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I make it over the pass Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Crossing The Rockies Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HAULING OVER WOLF CREEK PASS IN WINTER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I make it over the pass Last Line: Almost delivered, almost airborne Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Crossing The Rockie Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HE IS INDUCTED, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I have given away my toys Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HE MOURNS FOR HIS BROTHERS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: We must endure the rain and passing days Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HE WHO IS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Identical but not the same Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HEARING THE ARGUMENT OF THE SMALL PRISONERS, by LE CHI THUY Poem Source First Line: The enemy opened the cell doors a few minutes each day Last Line: Then tears fell down their cheeks Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HERCULES BUILDS ITS NEW CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Each window's green like a body bag Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HERCULES, DOW, - AGENT ORANGE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: God bless the chemical companies Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HIDE AND SEEK, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: They lie where they have fallen - ah, strange Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HIM, ON THE BICYCLE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a liftship near hue Last Line: Like a blaze %streaming down the trail Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HISTORY BLUES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Those days %we scarcely bathed off the scent Last Line: Like maps, how our scars %refract the light passing through us as we fade Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HO NGOC, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: My father remembered 1945, when ho chi minh Last Line: We'll win in the end. You see, %my father taught me patience Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOA BINH, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August thirty-first %stanley was all excited Last Line: Back in hoa ky %I hope your vote counts Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOMAGE TO POUND, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young men in black shirts %knife of sun on bandolier straps Last Line: Let us all go wash ourselves in the ganges Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOME FRONT, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: Handing out anti-war leaflets at united aircraft Last Line: To stop the war & went home Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOMELESS COMPLEYNT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me buddy, I didn't mean to bug you Last Line: Wiping your windshield with a dirty rag Subject(s): Homeless; Insects; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Bugs HONOR (1969), by ALLSTON JAMES Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure at what point Last Line: Still warm and alive upon our palms Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOODED LEGION, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: There are no words here Last Line: What hand did not turn us aside? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOVE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: You know me. And don't. You wouldn't recognize me Last Line: I wish it were a ship. I wish it had sails %that ruffled like a silk blouse, opening Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW ARE WE FREED, WHO HAVE NOT WISHED WE WERE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW IS IT I AM TORN YET DO NOT BLEED, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW MANY MEN ARE TRUE? HOW SELDOM ARE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW MANY OF THESE LETTERS HAVE I TORN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW OFTEN, LIKE A FOOL, AFRAID TO GO, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HOW WE DID IT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We all traveled into that big room, Last Line: Waiting for morning Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HUNTING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sighting down the long black barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HUNTING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sighting down the long black barrel Last Line: And how much longer till I change my socks Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 HUY NGUYEN: BROTHERS, DROWNING CRIES, by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaking the snow from your hair, bowl cut Last Line: Screaming, remains beyond your english or my ignorance Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I ALWAYS LOOK UP, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: When the wind brings a distant thud Last Line: When war flies my neighborhood--I always look up Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I AM SAD, by LE NGOC HIEP Poem Source First Line: When I got back to base Last Line: As I hold this pen and write you Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I CANNOT BEAR TO HEAR WILD BIRDS AT NIGHT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I CANNOT HOLD YOUR HAND FOR IT WOULD BE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I CHOOSE MY SUFFERING IN NOT CHOOSING YOU, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I RETURNED TO MY NATIVE VILLAGE, by CA LE HIEN Poem Source First Line: O my native land -- emerald in the shade of the coconut trees Last Line: And the rifle in my hand %burning hot with indignation Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 I WAS DANCING ALONE IN BINH DINH PROVINCE, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: There is an award for this Last Line: Soil hearts move through Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ICEHOUSE, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: From where I sat Last Line: A silver kind of ice Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IF DEATH MUST BE OUR WEDDING LET IT BE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IF I COULD HAVE YOU THAT HAVE BEEN AWAY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IF I'M ZAPPED - BURY ME, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IF SO I HAVE BETRAYED YOU ONCE, MY LORD, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IF THEY COULD HAVE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hot steam poured %from red frantic mouths Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ILLUMINATION, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: No sunrise here - three layers of green Last Line: I've been there %seen the pictures Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IMAGE MAKER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: When frost on the window draws Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN 1969, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It wasn't only the senators. %remember sand creek Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN A PLANTATION, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The bullet passed %through his right temple Last Line: Red and grey on a rubber tree Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN CA MAU, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leave and the women sweep %after them in ca mau Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN CELEBRATION OF SPRING, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our asian war is over; others have begun Last Line: That we will be keepers of a garden, nonetheless. Subject(s): Decay; Social Problems; Soldiers; Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Rot; Decadence IN COUNTRY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Fireballs blink %on bien hoa airstrip Last Line: I didn't know death %had such lively eyes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN HEAVEN, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The musicians have picked up the hammers Last Line: Trembling under their gloss of frozen rain Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN PHAN THIET, by NGUYEN HU'U THINH Poem Source First Line: Brother, nothing belongs to you Last Line: And day after day %phan thiet has my brother Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THAI BINH (PEACE) PROVINCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've used up all my film on bombed hospitals Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THAI BINH (PEACE) PROVINCE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've used up all my film on bombed hospitals Last Line: Common as any sparrow Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE ABATTOIR, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Mama, mama,' new york screamed Last Line: They get cut and filleted %and wrapped in butcher's paper %in the abattoir Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GHENGIS KHAN, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: There, where a french legionaire Last Line: Replacing kepis with berets. 'ah so!' with 'gawd! %damn!' Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE GARDEN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Year after year the crimson leaves go down Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE JUNGLE AT VIETNAM, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: If I could at least see ...' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE LABOR MARKET AT GIANG VO, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: I don't dare ask who you are Last Line: The last broken shard of war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE METRO, by VU NGOC CHUC Poem Source First Line: Things appear, %then disappear Last Line: This sadness still burning my heart Subject(s): Subways; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE MORNING HOURS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: If it were god's will Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE NAME OF THE CHILDREN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Children that would have been our voices Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THE VILLAGE OF YEN SO, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dust of the village brick factory Last Line: As she does, staring in at the door Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IN THIS LAST DARK BEFORE THE ENDING DARK, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCENSE SMELL ON NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LE CHI THUY Poem Source First Line: My family wakes at midnight, new year's eve Last Line: For a moment I hear my friend's footsteps coming home Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Last Line: The ways they stare through [the] windows in silence Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INDIAN PAYDAY, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Not a breath of wind Last Line: Red as arterial blood. %not a breath of wind, tonight Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INSERT, by R. L. BARTH Poem Source First Line: Our view of sky, jungle, and fields constricts Last Line: Too quickly - and more quickly every time Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INSTANT REALITY, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: I have sentenced myself to life Last Line: Until I was safe in san francisco, %and saw what 'some hippie prophet' %had written on the bathroom Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INTELLECTUAL, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Sgt. Rothman thought I was strange Last Line: And roth said, %'ask the cowboy. %he's the fucking intellectual' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INTERSECTION IN THE SKY, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: The air force called it quadrant bombing Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INTERVIEW WITH A GUY NAMED FAWKES, U.S. ARMY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You tell them this Last Line: Those are the enemy: %waste them all Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INVASION OF GRENADA, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't want a monument Last Line: What I wanted %was an end to monuments Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INVISIBLE DREAM, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: What will appear? What comes Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IS THE DAYROOM, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Vengeful and a wasteland %of fortunes, for now Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IT IS MONSOON AT LAST, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The black peak at xuan loc Last Line: Over xuan loc, over me %it is monsoon at last Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL BUT I LIKE IT : THE FALL OF SAIGON, 1975, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The guttural stammer of the chopper blades Last Line: His fists beating time. Then the hands giving way Variant Title(s): 'it's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It': The Fall Of Saigon, 197 Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Estrangement; Outcasts ITINERARY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In arizona coming across the border with dope in my tires Last Line: Through the heart. Corazone. Corragio. Core Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JIG SAWPUZZLE, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Firebase tomahawk was hit by sappers Last Line: Trying to decide with which corpse, %in which body bag, %it belonged Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JOHN JOHN BACK AT CHU LAI AIRPORT, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Right at the r & r center Last Line: Was %not for the bus tours Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JOHN ON JEEPHOOD, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yoyoyoyo the sound of the duckherds Last Line: And all the stupid buddies follow %yoyoyoyo Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JOURNEY, by IGOR BOBROWSKY Poem Source First Line: Where were you bound for, unknown man Last Line: Has long ago grown cold Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JOURNEY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: They sent me across the world Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JOY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: The soldier who kills for fun can laugh at Last Line: Coarse as a kettledrum Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KIM-SAN, by STEVE DENNING Poem Source First Line: She is carried in with half her buttocks gone Last Line: To the airstrip, cover him with our flag Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KIMONO, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She would come in the mornings and we would undress as soon Last Line: The door. Her gone and me with the rest of the day. The kimono %in the dark closet full of her smell Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KIND, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hearted americans are %adopting vietnamese Last Line: The americans the way %they're so kindhearted Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 LA JUNTA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I am their partner. Them Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LADIES MAN, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Sgt. Jones thinks he's a real ladies' man Last Line: The only things he cares about %are payday, booze and a cheap piece of ass Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LADY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Wind fills the lighted flask Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAMP STANDING ARMY, by TRAN DINH DAC Poem Source First Line: On the road we took to fight the enemy Last Line: For victories to follow %one after the other ahead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LANCE CORPORAL PURDUE GRACE, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He went home when the new replacemenst arrived Last Line: Some people swim. %and some people go in boats Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAND, by JOHN F. HOWE Poem Source First Line: The vietcong are magical. They can see in darkness Last Line: And I lower my eyes from the glasses, thinking he can see me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LANG SON, 1989, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: I returned to the old battlefield Last Line: Could it be that ball of thread didn't hopelessly knot a stranger's heart Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST DAYS OF THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: And that was when the young priest Last Line: The republic of south vietnam Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST LIE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some guy in the miserable convoy Last Line: Again into the faces of children %who called to us for food Subject(s): Truth; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST POEM, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Today I wrote my last vietnam poem Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST STEP, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: It had everything to do with vietnam Last Line: How he climbed into the chair %and heard his last firefight Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST STILL DAYS IN BUNKER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All morning we saw flames in the distance Last Line: How many battles we might stop Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LAST TRIP, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Load up--move out Last Line: Depression--suicide %the sudden locking of the door %shameful exodus for a would-be hero Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LEAVING CU-CHI MARCH, 1968, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: What did you think, old woman Last Line: See how foolish they are, %marching from cu-chi, %eating fresh apples %the day before they die Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LEAVING OFF POETRY, by PHAN NGOC HOAN Poem Source First Line: I can't stay here to love the flowers forever Last Line: Life the withered grass shooting up again each spring Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LESSONS, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: What's a patriot, dad? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LETTER FRON AN HOC (4), BY A SEEDBED, by R. L. BARTH Poem Source First Line: Some distance away Last Line: Over a dead land, like lust %without a woman Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LETTER; TO A NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought you killed me Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LETTER; TO A NORTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIER, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thought you killed me Last Line: Do not let it all come down %to nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIBERTY & TEN YEARS OF RETURN, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: In the singed breath of london Last Line: No message, and no home waiting %or wanting us here Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am not so sure you are stewardess as you say Last Line: Remake then into new lies %send them spinning Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIES, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: My son and I kiss the same woman goodbye Last Line: From the faithful, the earnest, from friend, brother, or father Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT CASSIDY, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Ok, I burned their village Last Line: Shooting and burning, yelling %so everyone could hear, %'this one's for phillips, %here's for gonzal Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT COLONEL CASPAR, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I was career air force soaring Last Line: I thought of my own children-- %haven't left earth since Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT JOHAH (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Vietnam sky looks like new haven Last Line: Choppers and machine guns now. %not at all like reading tolstoy Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT JONAH (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I drive night convoys, conjure up Last Line: Just another fallen warrior %and her whole world would fragment %like ice on a sunny day Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: All my life I hated waiting in lines Last Line: I'll fight, bribe, bargain %for the privilege of %wating in line Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I attend mass at dawn Last Line: One white candle glows in mist %and a voice from the front whispers, %'peace be with you.' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT LAWRENCE (3), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Late morning and the chopper god Last Line: Someone turns on a radion and %we list to the news: %neil armstrong has just walked %on the moon Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT LE BLANC, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: As service officers in vietnam Last Line: They liked it so much %they avoided vc, %went home in a year Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIEUTENANT TIPPETT, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Guess I always had it tough Last Line: He'll blast any of us %weird how it takes a war %to even things out Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIGHT, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She is telling me about a machine that creates light Last Line: Even now, in this cold of early march Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIKE FALLEN ANGELS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it it hard to tell the truly dead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LINES FOR TRANSLATION INTO ANY LANGUAGE, by JAMES FENTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw that the shanty town had grown over the graves Last Line: Other spontaneous demonstrations in their favour were organized by the victors Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LINKED BY GRIEF, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: No name remembered Last Line: Mothersweetheartspouse %all dead %all used up %all for nothing %nothing for all Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LISTEN, by MARYLIN BUTLER Poem Source First Line: She said she would marry him Last Line: And they both paused, %listening Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LITTLE POEM ABOUT MY FIRST DEAD MAN, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Stupid sonofabitch! Last Line: Does your mother know...You're a stupid sonofabitch? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LIZARD, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow seared in stucco %you were here at the beginning your Last Line: Lizard who can go all week %on one quick, tongueful of rain Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LON GIAP, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: My family always be barbers Last Line: Go wherever they tell me %till we win war %and nguyen and me can show son %how to use razor Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOOKING FOR BILLY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Looking for shadow, %he could be anywhere Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOSS, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Sunset is a song Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOTUS TEA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night in ha noi Last Line: His face disappears in the tea like a river Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LOVE SONG, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I'll not let my mirrors break Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LSD IN A COMBAT ZONE, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Fletcher's brother mailed him some lsd Last Line: You're endangering everyone's life; %and worst of all, %you didn't save any for me Subject(s): Lsd (lysergic Acid); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LU YEN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I bar maid, work in clubs Last Line: So I swing hips, smile, %think of baby-san back home. %I serve heineken %for twenty cent a pinch Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LULLABY FOR THE MINORITY CHILDREN GROWING UP ON THIER MOTHER'S BACKS, by NGUYEN KHOA DIEM Poem Source First Line: Baby cu tai, sleep on your mother's back Last Line: And tomorrow when you grow up %you will live as a man in freedom Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 LZ GATOR BODY COLLECTOR, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: See %her back is arched Last Line: I didn't mind %I had gloves on then Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MADE IN HA NOI, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They live in different light Last Line: Lovers hurry back from fields Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MADONNA, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day I rang the wrong bell %you answered the door bare breasted Last Line: Like a sable stole. I feel your presence %I say, it's a damn shame, love is Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAIDENS, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Water from a spigot Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAIL CALL, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: On those days %his name is called Last Line: The only goodness %he still knows Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAIL FROM THE PAST, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The trip to the mailbox Last Line: On the fourth day %I opened it %and cursed aloud %..'another damn medal.' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAJOR BELINSKI, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Like insects Last Line: The man cries for the child, %knows the meaning of noise Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAJOR DAVIS (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I love working with the vietnamese Last Line: I remove the px radioi from his body, %hurl it %like a handgrenade %toward the esso sign in the dist Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAJOR DAVIS (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We pass the dead nva soldier Last Line: We leave him there to be buried %or disintegrate %move on toother missions %hardly conscious %of wha Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAKING THE CHILDREN BEHAVE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they think of me now Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAKING THE CHILDREN BEHAVE, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do they think of me now Last Line: That awaits misbehavior, %is it me they conjure? Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAN OF PLASTIC, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: He was a man of plastic whom I saw Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MANY OF THEM, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The child would be sublime Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MARCH I; FOR DWIGHT MACDONALD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the too white marmoreal lincoln memorial Last Line: His new-fangled rifle, his green new steel helmet Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAY, 1972, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft may mists are here again Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAY-70, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirteen faces waiting to be born Last Line: Asking 'is this the wound, is this - ?' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MAYDAY; FOR RICHARD M. NIXON, by BILL TREMBLAY Poem Source First Line: I saw police biting corktip cigarettes Last Line: Bells striking angelus %in the parish of the world Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEDIC, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: It's over now, john Last Line: Crazy doesn't count Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEDIC, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Doc gardner is our new medic Last Line: Doc's only been here a few weeks, %and he's already saved my life Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEDICAL REPORT (ASHAU VALLEY, 1969), by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: One of the hardest parts of combat Last Line: And waited for news, %and probably killed %another cigarette Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEDIEVAL LYRIC, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: For god I invite Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEETING, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I turned upon the world an inward eye Last Line: When the wide world had changed my day to night %then you came forth, and all the earth was light! Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEMORIAL DAY IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: O, it is all just like a medieval village Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MEMORIES OF MES DUTY AND THE WAR, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: Garbage went over the fantail, boiling into blue Last Line: Our longings and the spilled blood %gathered Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MERCENARY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Gottdammit, gentlemen, %the old nazi swore Last Line: And rob death of another set of ears Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MERCY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enough snow over last night's ice Last Line: Only a second when our eyes catch %and the wind shows some mercy Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MIDNIGHT, THE CUU LONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The top floor, saigon's grand hotel Last Line: The trung sisters and tran hung dao Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MIND IS STUNNED STARK, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stark, I said, %stunned night in the vah Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MINES, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In vietnam I was always afraid of mines Last Line: Front, put the leg down, like swimming Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MISSING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How you put those dots together and got beethoven Last Line: Searching the sky where already you'd [or, you had] disappeared Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOB, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: You, mob, %are about to be transformed Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MONKEY, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am you are he she it is Last Line: Men run up hill. Run down hill Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOONLIGHT, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: Our childhood, we had no time Last Line: Let your light, so calm and silent, absolutely silent %be enough to awaken me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOONLIGHT AND A BREEZE, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: All that's left Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MORNING, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the large stones in my head %coming to rest Last Line: The current helping a little towards dawn Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MORNING - A DEATH, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: I've blown up your chest for thirty minutes Last Line: I'd so much rather be making children, %than tucking so many in Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MORNING AT THE FRONT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The world is dark and far Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MORNING SONG, ON WALKING, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I heard the golden bird sing on the tree Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOTEL 'NAM, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Vietnam %was a wet wash rag Last Line: And we were the maids %holding our noses %cleaning up %aftercheap brothers Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOTHER THINKS OF THE FATE OF CHILDREN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: When I was born between the wars Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOTHER'S DAY, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source First Line: Staring at the almost Last Line: We burnin your hootch %battalion says you v.C Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOUNTAIN MEN, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: I see them hobbling Last Line: That no one else will ever hear Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOUNTAIN, RIVER, by VU TIEN NAM Poem Source First Line: The mountain stands still, %looks down at the river Last Line: And sees the blue of the sky, the blue of %the mountain, a pure blue Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOURNING THE DEATH, BY HEMORRHAGE, OF A CHILD FROM HONAI, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: Always the children are included %in these battles for the body politic Last Line: And after the first death, the many must go %unmourned Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MOVIE, by STEVE DENNING Poem Source First Line: We traded six ak-47s Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MR. GIAI'S POEM, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The french ships shelled haiphong then took the port Last Line: All four as quiet as if carved in ivory. Subject(s): Indochinese War, 1946-1954; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MRS. HARTUNG, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I better write this letter Last Line: Garry manages a hardware store. %with him I have a chance Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MRS. LAWRENCE, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I see patients seven to three Last Line: Hope to fall asleep before %I have to face the bedroom %without you Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MY BEAUTY EBBS AWAY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MY BROTHER'S POEM: VIETNAMESE WAR 1969, by RALPH J. SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: You tell me you can not write it Last Line: In plexiglass monsoon screams past your face %above the controls your own american face Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MY FLUTE, by HERBERT KROHN Poem Source First Line: When I had learned enough to fail every test Last Line: Stay in the empty window the world goes by Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 MY SOUL WRINGS OUT ITS PAIN, WRINGS OUT ITS PAIN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 MYTHMAKER, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Free falling five feet Last Line: They say he exited the chopper screaming Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NAMELESS WONDER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I am the candle and the flame Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEED FOR WEED, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The %weed %grass Last Line: Count %the days %curse %it all %down here deep %in the mud Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEGOTIATIONS, by RAY CATINA Poem Source First Line: We give them chocolate bars Last Line: But it's too late for that Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NERVES, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Training I received did not apply Last Line: Think of bursting from sleep when mortars dropped; %crazy run to a dark hole, damp sandbags Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW GUY, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw girls squatting against the wall Last Line: Like angels speaking in tongues Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW WOMAN BLUES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my white armor I am covered with hair and lice Last Line: That's the hardest thing of all you'll have to bear Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEW YEAR'S EVE, by PHAM THI TUYET BONG Poem Source First Line: I knew the firecrackers would explode like this tonight Last Line: These moments burn through me, leave behind their searing red ashes Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The NEWSCAST, by AARON KRAMER Poem Source First Line: First came the news of the war: our bombs had struck Last Line: And leaned over my scarless land, and spoken Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEXT STEP, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The next step you take Last Line: The next step Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NEZ WANTED TO BREAK IN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We're people, not like them Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NHAT DA TRACH: ONE NIGHT SWAMP, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That night princess tien dung Last Line: Impenetrable swamp, sea beasts surrounding their boats, %strange birds hovering above Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NHU'S FAMILY, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we a family Last Line: I grab baby-san, %run to fields, %look for daughter %and husband. %men in uniform scream %like wild Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT DUST-OFF, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: A sound like hundreds of barbers Last Line: Moving in the beaten night Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT FEAR, by DON RECEVEUR Poem Source First Line: I heard my meatless bones Last Line: Contain something %of military importance Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT FLARE DROP, TEN SON NHUT, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is tet %some vietnamese excuse for fireworks Last Line: Like the vc - always comes back Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT ON THE KHO NHA DINH, by STEVE DENNING Poem Source First Line: Two children move shells from tay ninh Last Line: Bananas we won't eat, cautious %of our own skins Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHT PATROL, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another night coats the nose and ears Last Line: Nervous fingers hit the safety catch Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NIGHTS IN NHA TRANG, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: The girls, %the girls of nha trang Last Line: One %saigon tea? Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NOON, by PERRY OLDHAM Poem Source First Line: I'm digging holes for three wilted saplings Last Line: In the shape of a y shades my eyes from the sun Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NOT JUST A BATTLEFRONT, by PHAM SY SAU Poem Source First Line: Dry seasons have passed, %dry seasons will come again Last Line: From the harsh season at the front Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NOW WE ARE HOSTAGE TO A GREATER LOVE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NUI BA DEN: BLACK VIRGIN MOUNTAIN, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams you've returned before Last Line: Nui ba den, home %at last Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NUN IN NINH HOA, by JAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: It was quite a sight for a boy from tennessee Last Line: He grinned - shivered - then softly swore: %'jeesus! How'd we get in this crazy place?' Subject(s): Nuns; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 NURSE HOLDEN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: The didn't prepare me for this Last Line: Mother superior would have been shocked, %but I'll do anything I can %to help pass time %and forget Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O GIVE ME TIME TO KNOW YOU! I HAVE JUST, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O LIFE I LOVE LIKE MY WIFE, by VIET PHU'O'NG Poem Source First Line: In the past we repeated the words 'perfect,' absolutely true,' so often Last Line: O this life, I love like my wife Subject(s): Marriage; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O SAY NOT TO MY HEART YOU ARE MY HEART, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O SWEET ELUSIVE ANGEL THAT NO SPITE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O WHITMAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Did he sorrow? %did he laugh? %did he, did he? Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 O, IF YOU DO NOT LOVE ME TELL ME NOW, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OBJECT LESSON, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Sgt. Rothman put out all but a single candle Last Line: Your slackman can save you, %reach out to the flame. %and then roth blew the candle out Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ODE FOR THE AMERICAN DEAD IN ASIA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God love you now, if no one else will ever Variant Title(s): Ode For The American Dead In Korea Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953; Men; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War OEDIPUS BLIND, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes which are not there %move as I say this Last Line: You cannot know what this was like %the smell of her Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OF LATE, by GEORGE STARBUCK Poem Source First Line: Stephen smith, university of iowa sophomore' Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OFFICER'S CLUB, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Albert drives the jeep by Last Line: Blood on every groping paw Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OH STONE, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: I stand in meditation before angkor's ruins Last Line: Whoever won, the people always lost Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OK CORRAL EAST - BROTHERS IN THE NAM, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sgt. Christopher and I are %in khanh hoi down by the docks Last Line: We know who owns the night %and carry darkness with us Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OLD LOVES FALL AWAY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OLD MEN, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: There is an old man Last Line: Even as they chant at his bronze feet Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON A LOVED ONE GOING TO THE WAR, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Promise me that you will never pass Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have and in fact Last Line: To make sure I was noticing Variant Title(s): A Poem Of Difficult Hope Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON BEING HONORABLE, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: We all have boxes to burn Last Line: Duty is a past tense word %and honor is alice's rabbit Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON CONTEMPLATING THE ARMS RACE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Time's clock strikes stilly, stilly Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON GOING INTO BATTLE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Creator god, who will create Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON HATS & THINGS, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Gunny harlabakis %was a lifer Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON HEARING A CHAMELON IN THE CITY, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: Tac ke %tac ke Last Line: To the voice in the tamarind tree: %sap ve! Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON LOSING THE WAR, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Vietnam was a slang war Last Line: We were winning when I left Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON SEEING A FLAG-DRAPED CASKET, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Why should a flag be red, as if to say Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER GRACE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and low clouds blown through the valley Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER GRACE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rain and low clouds blown through the valley Last Line: I thought my body would catch fire Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE BREAKING OFF OF THE ARMS TALKS MOSCOW AND WASHINGTON, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: A billion people in each camp Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE MYSTERIOUSNESS OF POETIC COMPOSITION, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I fell asleep with my poem in my hand Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE TRAIN TO PHILADELPHIA, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The misty cities pass me by Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ON THE YELLOW FOOTPRINTS, by MCAVOY LAYNE Poem Source First Line: Well now, look at this unsightly herd Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ONCE IN THE WORLD, I THOUGHT TO FIND YOU THERE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ONCE YOU'VE BEEN TO WAR, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are times when everything I touch Last Line: Like flutes whittled from bone Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ONE REASON I WENT TO PRISON, by JAMES MOORE Poem Source First Line: A boat gathers you in Last Line: Unncessary to prove myself %your enemy Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ONE THAT DIED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bet we'll soon forget the one that died Last Line: And cigarettes are hard to get Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ORACLE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the altar the flies of god %swarm on the pomegranates and roasted oxen Last Line: And when finally we stop speaking %it pins us to the ground Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ORACLE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The flesh denies the flesh Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ORANGE WALKING, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: I don't know... Last Line: We just walked, %looking for charlie in the underbrush, %dugin not knowing about dow Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 OSCAR, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Tonight, %while you're sleeping Last Line: Tonight, %as the world sleeps, %a war will play in my head %and I will be the only casualty Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 P.O.W.S, by R. L. BARTH Poem Source First Line: Lieutenant gilbert took us down the hill Last Line: Kneading this silence that I cannot fill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PAINT BY NUMBERS, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: I liked the big chested ones Last Line: Divorced by huey separated for life Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PAO-LING, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I walk hundred of mile Last Line: I sing her a song, %make her sleep. %maybe when she wake %webe able to rest Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PATRIOT'S DAY, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source First Line: When the young girls rolled into one Last Line: All our women are warriors %and the men burn slowly inward Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PATROLS, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: This is where stacking pays off Last Line: How they drag their dead away %and who kept score Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PAYDAY IN THE JUNGLE, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: If you're in the military Last Line: And you can always send flowers %to the mothers or the widows %of the people who aren't here %since Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PEACE WITH HONOR, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The outer provinces are never secure Last Line: The honor of empire %is saved Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PEASANT FARE: MEDITATIONS ON A MUSEUM CATALOGUE FOUND, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why in these paintings of the middle ages Last Line: Of pure and honest terror Variant Title(s): Peasant Fare: At The Museum Of Fine Art Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PERFECTION, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: For the thrid straight morning Last Line: We discover a cove, %feast on wine and nectarines, %swim naked %in a frenzied surf Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PERFORMANCE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We know about the advertising executive who roller-skated Last Line: The receiver in my face and says: it's for you:it's the %white house Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PERFUME ON THE ORIENTAL MORNING, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source Last Line: Must grow more before %it dies Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PFC KRETLZER, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We drive the armored personnel carriers Last Line: I cock my weapon, insure %the treeline is secure Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PFC KRETZLER, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: My wife's words fly Last Line: I close my eyes, %listen to outgoing artillery, %live %each vowel Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PFC SWARTZ (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Two days ago we were slopping in rice paddies Last Line: They tell me we're surrounded %and the point man %keeps on screaming Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PFC SWARTZ (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I look up mickey and hank Last Line: Just something he heard on t.V. %mickey brings up the super bowl. %ten minutes later we split Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PHAN THIET, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You speak to me %of walking through the village Last Line: The warmth passing %through your fingers and into your eyes Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PHILOSOPHY, by RAY CATINA Poem Source First Line: There was no %getting around it Last Line: Be able to blend right in Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE JUNGLE, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: When things got slow Last Line: We weren't looking for beauty in vietnam %and consequently couldn't see it Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PICTURES FROM QUANG NAM, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The picture brings it back Last Line: You counted the flowers, knowing %one would be gone Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PICTURES OF THE BUDDHA, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At wat po a thousand buddhas stare Last Line: A young monk smokes and listens Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLACE IN HISTORY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Guardians of the free world Last Line: Preserving in nightmares %their grim estate Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLATO'S CAVE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood is red. They say napalm Last Line: In the fire a day before my eyes. Subject(s): Television; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Tv PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Last Line: There may be other scores to settle Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POEM FOR BOB, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: My friend bob paces %and stares at the ceiling Last Line: My friend bob %walks about the house, %over medicated...And dead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POEM FOR MY GRANDSON, by TRAN TE HANH Poem Source First Line: When my child was born, I was young again Last Line: And his fingers stroke my white beard Subject(s): Grandchildren; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POEM IN DEFENSE OF CHILDREN, by JOEL OPPENHEIMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Liberty to be defended on %foreign shores Last Line: That is our one inheritance, %or crawl, and cry, and kill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POEM OF A GARDEN, by PHAM THI TUYET BONG Poem Source First Line: Garden overgrown with weeds Last Line: The garden will ring with voices %as if I were still home Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POET AT WORK, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The world is filled with duty Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POET IN SOLITUDE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: But o, when did you tell me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POINT MAN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Why didn't someone get me Last Line: I watch blood %flow down the spot %where my leg shoud be. %it mixes with leaves %and broken twigs Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POINTMAN, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I really fucked up when I first got here Last Line: I should have told him I was from %some big, smoggy city, and had never seen %the sun or the sky or Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PORK & BEANS & BONUS, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: For what-- %eating beans in the rain? Last Line: If I accept this %I'll be selling out. %walking on graves %eating beans and making rain Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POST 'NAM, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: My life is stuck between channels Last Line: But a madman is at the remote, %asleep in the chair, %I am stuck between channels %and the volume is Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POSTSCRIPT, by R. L. BARTH Poem Source First Line: At last, the senses sharpen. All around Last Line: Between the rice shoots. Nearly silent. Knowing Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRAYER IN VIETNAM, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: We must all do what we can Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRESIDENT DIEM'S MOTORCADE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: President diem's limousine Last Line: To ask in confession Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIORITIES, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I didn't know that eisenhower was dead Last Line: But, then, I was in vietnam %and we had our priorities straight Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRISCELLA PHU, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I be so long at orphanage Last Line: They lie in sweat, %cry all day long. %I think maybe stomach%not hurr so much Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE ARMISTICE, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Phillip, my little brother Last Line: My new smile %a covert operation Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE FIRST CLASS BROOKS MORGENSTEIN, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: Her remembered frailty had strengthened his Last Line: And how much of him was her Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE GOODRICH, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Sixteen miles away at long bihn Last Line: Shove them into his pockets %then runs %when I try to get close. %last week %I taught him baseball Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE IAN GODWIN, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He stepped on a land mine Last Line: The soft mud of vietnam cool between his toes Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE JACK SMITH, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: Since he came back %he never met with the friends he fought with in nam Last Line: Nobody has heard from him since Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE MCGILL, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I can't stand it anymore Last Line: Leaving ground to the rats %who now chomp and chew %on the mountains of garbage %both sides left on Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE PHILBRICK, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We move out in mist Last Line: We can't change our ways, %we're grunts, %and we'll be so till deros %or a plastic bag %on a midnigh Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE SOLOMON (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Thousands of stars saturate blackness Last Line: I get tired of living %twelve hours ahead of her Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRIVATE SOLOMON (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: We fill the air like dragonflies Last Line: My buddy %with arms stretched toward us %and a vc squad closing in %like flies on a carcass Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PROBABLY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before us as mutant generations Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PRODIGIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the worst of those days Last Line: To hold up the sky Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PROLOGUE, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: They lie here before you Last Line: Not needing your sympathy %but merely asking you overhear %and try %at last %to understand Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PUTTING AN END TO THE WAR STORIES, by LARRY MOFFI Poem Source First Line: Dust storms whipped %around us Last Line: The porch %and the grass grew Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 QUANG TRI, by LE CHI THUY Poem Source First Line: Everywhere we dug there were white bones Last Line: These skeletons, scattered all over our land, %belong only to vietnamese Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 QUESTIONS ON A MENTAL WARD, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: When I was in vietnam Last Line: If freedom is the answer, %then, vietnam was the question, %and those of us who passed the test %did Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 QUIET AMERICANS, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We hold our glasses out Last Line: The sad and lovely music Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RABBIT HUNTING, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Slugs from a twenty-two pump Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RAIDING A WHOREHOUSE, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The jeep stops and then the three quarter ton Last Line: What I mean you know I am saying what I am %saying Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RAIN WALK, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The village in flames behind us Last Line: And the steam rising from your wound %mixes with the asian mist Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RAPELLING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We dive happily Last Line: Out into the jungle Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 READING THE NAMES OF THE VIETNAM WAR DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a long day and a night we read the names Last Line: "thousands of dense black stones fall forever through the darkness under the Subject(s): Death; Memory; Names; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The REASSIGNMENT, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: I had a friend Last Line: I kept thinking about angels %in full dress uniform %waitingfor reassignment Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RED EARTH -- BLUE WATER, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: Bombs ploughed into the red earth, berry red Last Line: The maddening agony, the honey comes from within Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RED FAREWELL, by NGUYEN MY Poem Source First Line: It was a burning, red farewell Last Line: As if there had been no farewell Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REGISTRAR AT THE DRAFT BOARD, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Anyone who became eighteen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RELATIVE THING, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are the ones you sent to fight a war Last Line: When you awake, %we will still be here Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, by HORACE COLEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mortars are %the devil coughing napalm? Last Line: Black fingers on our white throats Alternate Author Name(s): Shaka Aku Shango Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REMINDER TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT; FOR LEWIS COOK, by CHRISTOPHER HOWELL Poem Source First Line: On an average afternoon men lay down Last Line: The dimming heavens, far off, like a telegram %on its way Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REPORT FROM AN UNAPPOINTED COMMITTEE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The uncounted are counting %and the unseen are looking around Last Line: And a new river is out feeling for a valley %somewhere underour world Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REPOSE, FR. MOUNTAIN AND RIVER ON THE SHOULDER, by ANH NGOC Poem Source First Line: We walked back into the shade of the old forest again Last Line: They could not live any other way Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETIRED GENERAL; DEDICATED TO NGUYEN CHUONG, by NGUYEN DUC MAU Poem Source First Line: Your days in the army are over Last Line: You live alone with the moon and the sky Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETIRED PILOT TO HIMSELF, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I come to the simplest things Last Line: Rhapsody, %acceptance of herself Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETURN, WINTER 1994, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning the old couple who live below Last Line: Go where there are other bodies, let their smalls overpower you %become small, one among many Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETURNED VETERAN REMEMBERS HIS COMRADES, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Why should I care, why should I love Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RETURNING FIRE; FOR BRUCE WEIGL AND NGO VINH LONG, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: What we think %what we remember Last Line: Second growth %that follows Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 REUNION, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years. Too long a separation Last Line: The war closes its circle around them Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RICE WILL GROW AGAIN, by JR. FRANK A. CROSS Poem Source First Line: We were walking %on the dikes Last Line: And plants rice shoots %all around Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RIFLEMAN'S WORDS, by NGUYEN TRONG OANH Poem Source First Line: I lie here %in miss sau's native land Last Line: For only %one more day Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RIVER MUSIC, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One by one the lanterns Last Line: Even the moon might die %on her shoulder Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ROAD HAZARD, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eddie throws an old poncho Last Line: Maybe I did appear the weakling Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ROCKET ATTACK (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rocks fallout on us Last Line: Never hear the horrible %sucking sound a rocket makes when it Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Rocket Attac Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 RTO, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Yesterday the lt. Asked me Last Line: Must be fifteen feet high %and always looked like a target to me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 S/SGT PARKER, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: News from home Last Line: I wonder if there's anyone here %who can teach me %how to change diapers Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SAILING TO BIEN HOA, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream of the hydroplane I'm sailing to bien hoa. The Last Line: Dren, their damp flute, the long line of their vowels Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SATURDAY NIGHT AND POPCORN, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: I haven't been here long enough Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SCATTERING FLOWERS, by GEORGE PARKS HITCHCOCK Poem Source First Line: There is a dark tolling in the air Last Line: And photographs of dark asian youths %who are already dissolving into broken water Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SCHOOLDAY IN MAN QUANG, by DENIS KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: On thursday a vietcong flag was noticed flying Last Line: On thursday a vietcong flag was noticed flying Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SEAL STERN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Our own men in the basecamps Last Line: We're a disciplined unit %that butchers to live. %we're navy seals and even charlie %knows our name Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SEARCH AND DESTROY, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: They came out of the hootch Last Line: A sudden move like that Subject(s): Troy; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SEARCH FOR BLACK MEN: VIETNAM POST-MORTEM, by BEVERLY FIELDS BURNETTE Poem Source First Line: Where did all the black men go? Last Line: Another tragic waste of race %regardless of the deed Subject(s): African Americans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SECOND-HAND ELEGY; FOR DOUGLAS DICKEY, PFC., USMC, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I be bitter?' Last Line: Exhaust the evening, waiting for something to happen Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SECRET SCENT, by PHAN THI THANH NHAN Poem Source First Line: The windows of the two houses at the end of the street Last Line: Yet the fragrance sweetens the young man's journey Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SERGEANT BRANDON JUST, U.S.M.C., by BRYAN ALEC FLOYD Poem Source First Line: He was alive with death Last Line: Saying, without mercy, %I love you Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SERGEANT GRIGHOOLM, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Sergeant major beatty always bitches Last Line: Beatty's got it easy-- %he just has to make sure they don't die. %I've got to teach them %how to liv Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SERGEANT LE'S WATCH, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No neck walks over Last Line: I would try to find the watch %I lied Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SERGEANT MIKLOS, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Rockets precede us into hue Last Line: In some college in new england, %sit by duck ponds, study this war %in halls of gothic buildings Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SGT. SAM SUBLIME NEVER DIED, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source Last Line: Pound bomb %from a b-52 Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SHARING, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ridden a horse much Last Line: Flying through the opening fields Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SHITBIRDS, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: One of the most disgusting duties Last Line: As burned offerings %to the gods %of that particular war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SHORT HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR YEARS, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing was said until the house grew dark Last Line: Walking up the valleys like an old blind man Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SHRAPNEL, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: A chunk of death Last Line: Sunlight fits a tree Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SIDE GLANCE, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: I am the bastard boy Last Line: To lick the bones of the dead Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SILENCE; OHIO, WINTER 1970, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Every day is a long pause without seams Last Line: To stay alive is to lie still as death Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SILVER STARS, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Some nights they didn't know Last Line: Hovering at a thousand feet Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SIMPLE STATEMENT, by EVELYN THORNE Poem Source First Line: My friend, who once was a teacher in asia Last Line: And I live here, in the land of the murderer Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SIN, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: My eyes were sealed in innocence Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SKY IN THE BOMB CRATER, by LAM THI MY DA Poem Source First Line: Your friends said that you, a road builder Last Line: Each wear a trace of you, bright on our cheek Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SKY IS BRILLIANT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into its defensive walls. O look, now Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SKY IS PANNED, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As knuckles %around gunstock %around steering wheel Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SLOW LEAK, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: It's my first firefight Last Line: I sink into my hole... %his lips keep moving Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SMALL SONG OF PEACE, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: I listen as you read from the pages of truth Last Line: Only love poems now %and news of love Subject(s): Peace; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SNAIL GATHERERS OF CO LOA THANH, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The legends of co loa thanh, old snail city Last Line: And we without our bows Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SNIPER, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blooker grenade launcher Last Line: I'm telling you to keep quiet Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOLDIER-POET, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: His shirt is wrinkled with the unwashed blows Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOME NIGHTS ARE MADE FOR MUSIC, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Henry juett had a tape player Last Line: Henry couldn't go to church, %so the church came to henry Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOME THOUGHTS ON THE AMBASSADOR: BONG SON, 1967, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bunker the ambassador Last Line: He must be shaking his head Variant Title(s): The Ambassado Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOMEHOW, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warriors could have passed %into their young blood Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOMETHING TO GET HIM THROUGH, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He talked about the skin on the inside of her arms, her neck, the Last Line: She did not do, she felt compelled to commit the crime. His hands %were shaking Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOMEWHERE NEAR PHU BAI, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The moon cuts through Last Line: Of the brain, counting %sheep before I know it Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG FOR SUSAN (AT THE STONE FOR SOLDIERS), by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The warm october sun was no help Last Line: Consonants and vowels laced with metaphor, %punctuated with sincerity %and a misplaced rhyme or two Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG FOR THE LOST PRIVATE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night we were to meet in the hotel Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG FOR THE LOST PRIVATE, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The night we were to meet in the hotel Last Line: The miles we were all from home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG GIANG, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: The song giang, like the ohio Last Line: His chest full of hot metal, %his blood dancing down the bank, %flowing south towards home Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG IN THE GREEN LIGHT, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young girl sings in the green light Last Line: Hope is an unharvested field' Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF NAPALM, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: After the storm, after the rain stopped pounding Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF NAPALM, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the storm, after the rain stopped pounding Last Line: And not the jungle green %pasture unfolding before us can deny it Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF SAIGON, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: My friend asks all the wrong questions Last Line: He admires my limp, %my useless decorations %and buys me too much beer Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG OF THE HAMMOCK, by TRAN DANG KHOA Poem Source First Line: The hammock chirps, the hammock sings Last Line: The hammock chirps, %the hammock sings Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG ON THE MOONLIGHT AND THE DAN BO, by TRAN DANG KHOA Poem Source First Line: You play a tune on the dan bo Last Line: Fresh as a stream at its source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONG: VIETNAM, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: Platinum fur and brass revolver shine Last Line: With sweet dust of gun and white neck Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONNET, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I've had you once; I'll have you no more ...' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONNET, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Oh mighty god who will not let me go Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SONNET FOR THE BUS, by HO THANH CONG Poem Source First Line: Everything piled on top of the bus. Inside Last Line: In country smiles, dungarees, and t-shirts Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOUND OF GUNS, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: The sparrow hawk drops to the cornfield Last Line: A way to throw off the dead Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SOUVENIRS, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Three times in my adult life Last Line: I brought home from the war: %little corkscrew twists of metal Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPACE BETWEEN WORDS, by NGUYEN VIET BANG Poem Source First Line: What can we do? We've spoken too many words Last Line: What's left to say between us? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPEAKING TO THE HEART, by LAM THI MY DA Poem Source First Line: After a long night up writing poems Last Line: Plough %our sorrows and joys Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIAL TRAIN, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banners! Bunting! The engine throbs Last Line: He's there, he's fallen in the mud, he moans my name Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 4 BOUDREAU, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: At first I can't believe Last Line: Only black market bubbles in cafes %and saigon, after all, is not %paris in the spring Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 4 HARTUNG, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: When I was a kid I thought Last Line: Back there I'll only have to worry %about mosquitoes and malaria Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 5 BOUDREAU, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Before vietnam I never realized Last Line: No matter what happens to you in life, %as long as it doesn't kill you, %you can still work it out Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 5 CULKIN, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: On a quiet day we could have been winding Last Line: I think of him now %as we struggle toward a hostile bank %without birds, %and our boat is going down Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 5 HARTUNG, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: He lies in my arms Last Line: His eyes are getting more %and more distant. %I notice his watch %has stopped ticking Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST 5 SMITH, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: On my first day in country Last Line: I can almost imagine %saturday night back home %when I went out with my friends %and I still %hadn't Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SPECIALIST FLETCHER, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: You showed me all the photographs Last Line: Now you are just a memory. %another name on a long black wall Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SQUIRREL HUNTING, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: He was a pfc %from kansas city Last Line: I'm the one that %saw his face that day. %I'm the one that sees it every night Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STARLIGHT SCOPE MYOPIA, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-blue shadows lift Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STARLIGHT SCOPE MYOPIA, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-blue shadows lift Last Line: Loaded on an ox cart Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STARTING 1973: WHAT TO DO NOW THAT PEACE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, by JOSEPH CADY Poem Source First Line: At the end of january you will see again Last Line: He will tell you he can no longer hold in his violence Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STAYING ALIVE, SELS., by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Went with some of my students to work in the people's park Last Line: The war %comes home to us Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STILL LATER THERE ARE WAR STORIES, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: Another buddy dead Last Line: Loaded, nobody %comes away in one piece Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 STOP, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: Stop! ... %he ran three steps ahead of me Last Line: I forced him %to stop! Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SUDDENLY, by NGUYEN DUY NHUE Poem Source First Line: The young girl crosses the road and suddenly Last Line: To wish for something...Tomorrow again she'll cross Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SUMMER CHEATS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ghosts indian-like %still driven %towards oklahoma Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SUN GOES DOWN, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source Last Line: Ing the lung completely %flat Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SUN, THAT PUT US IN EACH OTHER'S SIGHT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SURROUNDING BLUES ON THE WAY DOWN, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was barely in country Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SURROUNDING BLUES ON THE WAY DOWN, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was barely in country Last Line: Hung like huge flowers, black %like her teeth Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SURROUNDINGS, by JOSEPH A. SOLDATI Poem Source First Line: A letter from my brother Last Line: And was gone. %john Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 SWEET TINNITUS, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: My m-50 gave me arms and legs Last Line: To remind me I'm still alive Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TAKING OUT THE TRASH, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Everywhere I look the monster stares back at me Last Line: Somewhere between the coffee grounds and egg shells %lay my sanity, all clean and white and without Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TAPS, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: My uncle roy %drives a truck Last Line: Too much shitass misery Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TAY SO'N ARMIES, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the tay so'n soldiers Last Line: From mountains to coast Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TECOND TOUR, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: There was a first day Last Line: His only choice %was to stay Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEETHING, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: In the dark house, the cry of a child Last Line: Sudden cry of the child. %cry of the world Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE AT QUAN LOI, 1969, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside the gate Last Line: Her prayers rain down like rockets Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE NEAR QUANG TRI, NOT ON THE MAP, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, the ivy thick with sparrows Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE NEAR QUANG TRI, NOT ON THE MAP, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, the ivy thick with sparrows Last Line: Burst off the walls into the jungle Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPLE OF LITERATURE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine hundred years they traveled Last Line: The wall of the quiet heart? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEMPORARY JOB, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I took a job as a beekeeper Last Line: They weren't very big, %but there were a hell of a lot of them Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TENEBRAE (FALL OF 1967), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, heavy, heavy, hand and heart Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TENEBRAE (FALL OF 1967), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, heavy, heavy, hand and heart Last Line: Of the war. They are %not listening, not listening Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEXAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Trade poor comfort, receive, %shuffle, and dodge the exile Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The news spread fast Last Line: It was such a lousy movie Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THANKS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks for the tree Last Line: Stood among those lost trees %& moved only when I moved Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THANKSGIVING, by STEVE HASSETT Poem Source First Line: By the third day, the rain Last Line: Or dien bien phu to the enemy %we can't find for you? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THAT HAS NO END, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Though all is passing nothing is past Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE GUARD AT THE BINH THUY BRIDGE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still he stands as mists begin to move Last Line: He aims. At her. Then drops his aim. Idly. Subject(s): Guns; Rivers; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE MARCH I; FOR DWIGHT MACDONALD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the too white marmoreal lincoln memorial Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE MARCH: 2, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where two or three were flung together, or fifty Subject(s): Social Protest; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE NATIVES, by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Several months after we lost our way Last Line: The hair on our shoulders dangles and shines. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THE NEXT STEP, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The next step you take Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEORY, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: Everybody dug a hole and lived in it Last Line: Drinking beer afterwards, %we were the sweaty survivors, we were the fit Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THERE SHOULD BE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The future should hold them %secret, hidden and profound Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THERE WAS A MAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like his anger, %amazed %and dismayed Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY CROSSED COUNTRY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Aimlessly, they crossed memory Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY DO NOT GO GENTLE, by BASIL T. PAQUET Poem Source First Line: The half-dead comatose Last Line: Red and grey on a rubber tree Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY MUST HAVE FELT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They became so selflessly righteous Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY MUST HAVE KNOWN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If they had only acknowledged %even their smallest conceit Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY SAY SPRING CAME, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source Last Line: Pity you martha Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY WERE AMAZED, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Their helpless hands %were like sieves Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THEY WERE SIMPLE ENOUGH, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And, finally, complex liars. %and thieves Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THIEN QUANG LAKE, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the window, the street sweeper Last Line: Whose name is the buddha's light Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THIN RED LINE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: What am I doing here, at the turn of morning Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THIS AMERICA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rising %from sand creek Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THIS TIME, by STEVE DENNING Poem Source First Line: We had 'em %had 'em in a crossfire, a platoon Last Line: Helps him up %dusts him off Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THIS WAS OUR LOVE'S NEW BIRTH, ITS DWELLING PLACE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare oaks rock and snowcrust tumbles down Last Line: Brave woman, I hope you never saw the truck. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Medicine; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription THREE BULLETS, by TA HU'U YEN Poem Source First Line: The first bullet, %fired at the white cloud Last Line: Back to his village after that long night of the soul Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 THROUGH A HELICOPTER DOOR, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Turn back if you haven't the stomach Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TIGER LADY, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dressed as a drag queen Last Line: Outdistancing the echo %of bluesteel & heartbeat Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TIGER SCOUT, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: I pity our tiger scout Last Line: Sure we will. %just as soon as we win this war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TIME AND SPACE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Time is dark Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 TIME ON TARGET, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We used to get intelligence reports Last Line: All those shells we fired every night %were hitting something Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TIME'S ROSE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: It is the pale, pale winter Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO MY COUNTRY; TO MY GOD, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: You will kill me, you will kill me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO RETURN TO THE URGES UNCONSCIOUS OF THIER BEGINNING, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: I want to return to the first urges, those urges that seemed so uncon- Last Line: Sold at a profit Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO THE HAWKS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell is the bell Last Line: Grows round with the sound Subject(s): Antiwar Movement; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Mcnamara, Robert S.; Rusk, Dean (1909-1994); Bindy, Mcgeorge (1919-1996); War Hawks TO THE SAVIOR, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: He, too, went up the bloody hill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE HOME TIRED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the streets fall [or, fell] silent Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE HOME TIRED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the streets fall [or, fell] silent Last Line: When your children ask you %why? Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TOBY IS SICK, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Closely %toby tends his shadow Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TORTURER'S APPRENTICE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost a man now %he used to shudder Last Line: Where people do those things Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 TOWER, by DEBORAH WOODARD Poem Source First Line: In my dream you're wearing an old trenchcoat Last Line: Room, a bed too small for sleep Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TOWN MEETING, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were defecating in public, he said Last Line: You don't have to be homeless to do that Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TRADERS WHO DEALT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even winter %knows no such sorrow. %whiskey end. %poisoned Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TRAPPED SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I can't go forward, I can't go back' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Dear lord, forgive me for my sins Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TU'M, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tum' %tomb %pro %prodromus Last Line: Penance for an age feminine: %plastique Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Memory; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War TURNING FIFTY, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This morning I swam out %into the cold Last Line: Carrying my voice out %over the water like a lost scarf Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TWENTIETH CENTURY, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: When I was out walking Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TWICE BETRAYED, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some american soldier %came to your mother for love Last Line: When you come here tomorrow %and I'm gone Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TYPHOON AT EAGLE BEACH, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: The two of us were stuck Last Line: Fuck the army. Fuck the army. %fuck this man's army' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 ULTIMA RATIO REAGAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The reason we do not learn from history is Last Line: And history will not blame us if once again %the light at the end of the tunnel is the train Subject(s): History; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War UNDER FIRE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I cannot learn it anymore Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 UNDER MOONLIGHT THE BABY SINGS, by TRAN TE HANH Poem Source First Line: Moonlight floods through the window Last Line: Showing her lovely round face; she sleeps though her singing continues Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 UNKNOWN CORPORAL, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I never minded lieutenant jonah Last Line: Don't you see, lieutenant jonah %had nothing to do with why %I killed him Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 V.A. HOSPITAL; IN MEMORY OF JOHN MAKSTUTIS, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: Yesterday I didn't know this place. %today I wished you were dead Last Line: From the outside I bring nothing of use Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VAN BINH, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: For years I do what people tell me Last Line: I no listen to no body. %I move family toi da nang, %take up black market. %drugs save my life Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VAN KY, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: For six years I fight as arvn Last Line: I make up my mind, %sell everything I have, %escape from this war Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old watch: their Last Line: Seeing the drifting sun that gives us our lives. Subject(s): Social Problems; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War VENDOR, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: There's a fellow sitting in a chair Last Line: I buy a pin with a gold eagle on it, %and when the doors shut behind me... %I scream between floors Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VERMONT (1), by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I'm forty-one. I was twenty-three then Last Line: This was in viet nam. Who didn't love me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VERMONT (2), by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: I'm forty-six. I was twenty-three then Last Line: This was in vietnam. Who didn't love me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VETERAN, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I get as far as the park Last Line: This is da nang, their eyes %rake me like ak-47s Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Veterans; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VICTOR, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My victor november friend and me Last Line: Makes both of us look alive Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIET-NAM (AN ACROSTIC POEM), by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Vietnam %invasion Last Line: North %american %manifestation Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Rain, do not fall Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM, by JONATHAN KARIARA Poem Source First Line: The field was full of bruised babies Last Line: For the river had flowed Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman, what's your name?' 'I don't know.' Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Childhood VIETNAM DREAM, by RON CARTER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes still - in my deepest sleep Last Line: Orders %'kill' - I kill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM EPIC TREATMENT, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It doesn't matter Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM LOVE SONG, by CAITLIN MAUDE Poem Source First Line: They said that we were shameless Last Line: And we chose a soft place by the river Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM MEMORIAL (1), by ALFRED H. ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Cold dawn light Last Line: Full of red blood leaves Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM MEMORIAL (2), by ALFRED H. ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Shadow on black granite Last Line: So many names Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM MEMORIAL (3), by ALFRED H. ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Dead men's names Last Line: I hear screaming Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM REDUX, by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: I cried with his mother Last Line: The living, their memories Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAM VETERAN'S MEMORIAL DAY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: We weep today for those Last Line: Before they learned to kill Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIETNAMIZATION, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: You're in this someplace else you dream Last Line: For a while you don't hear the music Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIOLENCE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Free and hollow, a cold glistening Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIOLENCE IS EVEN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Already avengers %fore-running justice, %to colorado Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIPER, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: The rocket left its tube Last Line: Better them than you Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VIPER, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Once, when we were in the jungle Last Line: I thought the whole thing was funny %until they chased it my way Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 VISIT, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Death is strolling down the walk Last Line: I pick up pieces of the film and hold them up to the moon Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAITER IN A CALIFORNIA VIETNAMESE RESTURANT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the smell of firebombing Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAITING, by NGUYEN HU'U THINH Poem Source First Line: I would return to the place called 'eighteen hamlets of betel gardens' Last Line: Night of the thi, %dawn of lengendary tam Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAITING FOR DAYLIGHT, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Forty minutes by chopper Last Line: In daylight, we're friends %but in darkness, we're foe Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WAR, by THOMAS BRUSH Poem Source First Line: Trying to sleep by the lake Last Line: Looking and the ground, at the edge of sleep, whispers %here, under here Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAITING FOR THE FIRE, by PHILIP APPLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Not just the temples, liftinf Last Line: No matter where you stand %the path of the light comes to you Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WALKING THE BOOMERANG, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: It's a long walk down Last Line: And the washington monument %is just another bayonet %piercing the peaceful sky Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WALKING WOUNDED, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: This is colfax,' the bus driver said Last Line: It's not everyday %you see the crippled %leading the blind Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WALKING WOUNDED, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: At first, I thought he was putting me on Last Line: He was an abstract painting, %that only a 'brother' could understand, %hanging here, %on this forgot Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WALL, by BRUCE GUERNSEY Poem Source First Line: Someone has chiseled a giant map Last Line: What was his name, from down the block?- %khe sanh, da nang,hanoi Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR AND CIRCUMSTANCE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: It's all in whether you chance to be born Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR AND EVOLUTION, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Following the moon and sun Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR DOG, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: I shouldn't wonder why Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR GAMES, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crouched in a sandbagged bunker Last Line: Lying in rooms flashing red %from flames in the distance Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR GOD, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: The man in the ball cap Last Line: And we did. %and they did Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR MOVIE, by MICHAEL CASEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never know how it turned out Last Line: This war ended early Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR POEM; OCT. 15, MORATORIUM DAY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Santo domingo, demrep, march 1965. %I took part, attached Last Line: I think of the harmony possible Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORIES, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Old men of the vfw Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORIES, by PERRY OLDHAM Poem Source First Line: Have you heard howard's tape? Last Line: Here's where the cobras come in %and whomp their ass Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY FOR PAUL, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell it for you Last Line: Naked in the stream toward me Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 1. MED BUILDING, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: They brought the dead Last Line: They made it fit in somewhere Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 11, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Hot sun, %I walk into a whorehouse Last Line: Another gi waits his turn Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 12, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: That night in the bunker Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 14, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: In the early morning the working party Last Line: Concertina wire and made hollow, tinny %noises Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 17, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Well, I said, I came back Last Line: So early in the morning Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 19, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: John bradt said, it'll be all right %when he gets home Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 7, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Flares in a night sky Last Line: Throwing the headlines Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 8, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: We found him %his chest torn open Last Line: And kicked the body %in passing Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR STORY: 9, by GERALD MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: They shot the woman in the arm Last Line: She was the enemy Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR ZONE 1961-1975, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: A politician's lies have brought Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAR-MONGER, by ROBERT JOSEPH SIGMUND Poem Source First Line: I'm going to enlist Last Line: A multi-millon megatonic fury: %love Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARNING, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Don't mock this wall Last Line: They paid for it Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARRANT OFFICER CUNNINGHAM (1), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Even as a child I had nightmares Last Line: It was funny at the time %but I should have realized %sooneror later %my nightmares were going to ge Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARRANT OFFICER CUNNINGHAM (2), by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I know it was silly of me Last Line: To me the words were shakespeare, %the print rembrandt Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARRANT OFFICER HICHAR, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: I've serviced officers clubs Last Line: Which will allow them %(at least for tonight) %to return to hootches, %close their eyes, %live the I Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARRANT OFFICER PROVOST, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: It would just kill you to see Last Line: I awarded the purple heart posthumously %to private solomon %and the silver star to major de angelis Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WARRANT OFFICER TADDUNI, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: The way I see it uncle sam Last Line: I scoop this trout %as he was about to swim %to open stream.%I whish I'd thrown him back Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WATCHING THE NEWS, by PAUL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: From out there, the news keeps coming Last Line: Like small, delicate bones in the darkness Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAVE, by NGUYEN THI XUAN QUYNH Poem Source First Line: Fierce and gentle, %loud and silent Last Line: And lap forever against your shore? Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WAY OF TET, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Year of the monkey, year of the human wave Last Line: After a thousand years of grief %at their hearts Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a museum of the city Last Line: They they they they they they they they. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Guilt WE AGREE TO SLEEP FOR A WEEK, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the first night of our sleeping %as my eyelids began to tremble Last Line: And yet this child at the rudder %and yet this bouquet of knives Subject(s): Aging; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WE ARE NOT ACHILLES, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: Thrust to the opposite; spurred on by men Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WE SHALL TAKE NOTHING AT ANOTHER'S COST', by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WEEPING WOMAN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: (drum) / it comes, like all the most important messages, / blurred Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WEEPING WOMAN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is weeping for her lost right arm Last Line: It is your own soul you destroy, %not ours Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WEIGHT OF THE SHEETS, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: Almost bought a machete Last Line: And I know for a fact, %that sometimes my scars %cannot bear%the weight of the sheets Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT CAN I LOVE, THAT LOVE NOT TIME AND SPACE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT IF THIS HAND THAT HOLDS THE PEN SHOULD SHAKE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT IF THIS LOVE SHALL GROW TOO GREAT FOR ME, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT OF THAT SIN BY WHICH OUR THOUGHTS ARE WON, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Students WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Last Line: The deep untangling, of one body from another Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And became remorseless %nameless %namelessness Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT THE WAR WAS ABOUT, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Some said rubber plantations Last Line: Nobody asked us Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT THINGS ARE CALLED, by ERICH FRIED Poem Source First Line: Why were you not like the tree trung quan? Last Line: Having been a vietcong Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT WERE THEY LIKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the people of vietnam use lanterns or stones Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Anti-war Protests WHAT WERE THEY LIKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did the people of vietnam use lanterns or stones Last Line: Who can say? It is silent now Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHEN CHICKEN MAN CAME HOME TO ROOST, by JR. FRANK A. CROSS Poem Source First Line: He still wore the od tee shirt Last Line: But I gotcher gun %sam!! Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHEN I AM 19 I WAS A MEDIC, by D. F. BROWN Poem Source First Line: All day I always want to know Last Line: Sliding through the grass %to get here Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHEN MAYER GOT HIT, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source Last Line: When mayer got hit %and left his legs behind... %I couldn't walk Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHEN THE MISSILES CAME, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I must praise the world and all that's in it Variant Title(s): After The Wa Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHERE ARE THE LOST, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHERE THE RIVER FLOWED, by VO QUE Poem Source First Line: I returned to the old city Last Line: And my hair grown gray like the tall reed flowers Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHITE CIRCLE, by PHAM TIEN DUAT Poem Source First Line: Bomb smoke rises in black circles Last Line: My friend, inside that white circle %a head burns with fire Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHY WE BOMBED HAIPHONG, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I bought bubble gum Last Line: Like a girl. Then the rest %of us pitched in and hit Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WILDFLOWERS, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: In nineteen hundred sixty five Last Line: Would burst into candleflame, blossom into fists Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WILLIAM NOTAR, by PETER JAMES ULISSE Poem Source First Line: Vietnam? Last Line: In some god forsaken primitive country %halfway around the globe. %I got a mortgage to pay Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WILLIE, DANCING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we moved south Last Line: In trails of smoke above my head Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WIND AND WIDOW, by PHAM THI TUYET BONG Poem Source First Line: Wind widow willowy Last Line: The war after ten years has gone by Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WINTER BEFORE THE WAR (2), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In fall we raked %the leaves downhill Last Line: We watched %each other's eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WOMAN KNITTING, by HOANG THI Y NHI Poem Source First Line: In the cold afternoon %a woman sits by a window knitting Last Line: Slowly unravels its circles Subject(s): Grief; Knitting; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WORDS, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: What did those girls say when you walked the strip Last Line: I translate dumbly what those girls would say. Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WORDS AND THOUGHTS, by JOHN CLARK PRATT Poem Source First Line: Hey, you, you slant-eyed, luscious brown-skinned broad Last Line: Please stop your crying and forgive us all, %as well as me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WORDS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: About eight of us were nailing up forts Last Line: To call me back into our helpless tribe. Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Men; Parents; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Childhood; Parenthood WORDS STUMBLE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The magpie is determined to freeze Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WORRIED OVER THE DAYS PAST, by NGUYEN THI XUAN QUYNH Poem Source First Line: Many went to see their lovers off Last Line: Days when you hadn't reached me yet Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WORST IN MEMORY, by BILL BAUER Poem Source First Line: Oldtimers claim it was Last Line: That is the promise Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WOUNDED SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I do not wish to die, nor wish to live ...' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WYO VIET VET RAP GROUP, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: For all the coffee and cigarettes Last Line: From hand to hand %like some bloody baton %in a relay race to nowhere Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 XIN LOI, by JON FORREST GLADE Poem Source First Line: It was an ordinary mission Last Line: The vietnamese equivalent of %'sorry about that' Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YEAR IN THE LIFE, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Because I was young...And stupid Last Line: I celebrate my end...I blow out nineteen candles Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YET ARE YOU WOUNDED, SOLDIER, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: We may pray for peace but we shall not have it Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Did not know how %they were patriots Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, by ROBERT FRANKLIN PATE Poem Source First Line: Send me to fort benning Last Line: And when I kill six people %at a bus stop in new york %with a russian made assault rifle %...Call me Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU BROUGHT ME BEAUTY THAT NO FLESH COULD KNOW, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU CANNOT HAVE ME, NO! FOR I WILL TAKE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU WILL NOT COME! NO, NO, YOU WILL NOT COME, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOU WITH YOUR VIRTUE HAVE BEWILDERED ME, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 YOUNG RECRUIT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: I cannot recall, except with tears Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 |
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