Showing posts with label poems about Viet-Nam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poems about Viet-Nam. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2026

War Metaphor Guy - poem

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  This is a variant on an old poem and so possibly a re-post Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office LogoSophia ...
Friday, July 18, 2025

1970 - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   1970   When I came home I was asked by a boyhood friend ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Stand-To for Night Patrol - short poem

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   Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Dispatches for the Colonial Office   Stand-To for Night Patrol     The Americans were said to believe th...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

It Wasn't the Fourth of July - poem

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   Lawrence Hall, HSG Mhall46184@aol.com   It Wasn’t the Fourth of July        That we may wander o’er this bloody field      To book our de...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Mercenaries Off Down That Road - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com   Mercenaries Off Down That...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Why I Wear a Boonie Hat - poem

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  Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com   Why I Wear a Boonie Hat ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

"I Went to Vietnam to Understand America's Role..." - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com poeticdrivel.blogspot.com “I Went to Vietnam to Understand America’s Role in Its History and Was Blo...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Da Nang on the 20th of July in '69 - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Da Nang on the 20th of July in ‘69 On the 20th of July in ‘69 I was on the Tien Sha peninsula Prob...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Dangers of Smoking after Heaving the Dead into a Helicopter - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Dangers of Smoking from an idea by Sheila Sharpe In the foul heat and damp and rot and stench...
Monday, May 28, 2018

When We Were Sailors - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com When We Were Sailors To the tune of Detroit Diesels When we were sailors we seldom thought about ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Dreamcatchers Along a Navajo Road - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Dreamcatchers Along a Navajo Road “…the war…often seems to have happened to someone else.” -C. ...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Viet-Nam Service Medal - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Viet-Nam Service Medal A dragon lurks among the bamboo trees And if sometimes half-hidden, still, al...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

"Have You Seen Ken Burns' Latest Television Show?" - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com "Have You Seen Ken Burns’ Latest Television Show?" No, I was in the play. I didn’t like it...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

The Bishop of DaNang - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com The Bishop of DaNang In Grateful Memory: Pierre Marie Pham Ngoc Chi,14 May 1909 – 21 January 1988 ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Picket Fences at Camp Tien Sha - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Picket Fences at Camp Tien Sha There were picket fences at Camp Tien Sha And a sign that read “Welco...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Memorial Day II: Bad Morning, Viet-Nam - poem

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Lawrence Hall mhall46184@aol.com Bad Morning, Viet-Nam No music calls a teenager to war; There is no American Bandstand of death, N...
Saturday, March 4, 2017

Alter Christus, Alter Vir - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Alter Christus, Alter Vir For Reverend Angelo J. Liteky He died three times, for other men Who l...

Thank You for Your Service - Now Shut Up - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Thank You for Your Service – Now Shut Up Heat, mud, mosquitos, humiliation Despair, stand to, stand ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

An American Legion Meeting - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com An American Legion Meeting O let us sit, our coffee cups to hand And discharge half-remembered boot...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Thick and Thin Malarial Smears - poem

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Lawrence Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Thick and Thin Malarial Smears An eye, a brain, a journey deep down a lens Examining the secrets...