Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam VeteransLarry Rottmann, Jan Barry, Basil T. Paquet A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans. |
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... silent pulse , Sprung brief spondees in your lungs , And the cesura's called mid - line , half - time , Incomplete , but with a certain finality . The bullet barks apocalyptic And you don't unzip your sepulchral Canvas bag in three days ...
... silent pulse , Sprung brief spondees in your lungs , And the cesura's called mid - line , half - time , Incomplete , but with a certain finality . The bullet barks apocalyptic And you don't unzip your sepulchral Canvas bag in three days ...
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... silent as the sun , as words not spoken , broken Easters of flesh girdled in fatigue strips , red arching rainbows of dead men rising like a promise to give Jesus the big kiss and sinking down- only my breath on their lips , only my ...
... silent as the sun , as words not spoken , broken Easters of flesh girdled in fatigue strips , red arching rainbows of dead men rising like a promise to give Jesus the big kiss and sinking down- only my breath on their lips , only my ...
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... silent , unhurried as the whorl on stiff red fingertips . " Why do I move among you like a berserk ballerina , tippy - toeing over you filling out your tags and powdering the rest ? I cannot believe anymore that names count . I fear ...
... silent , unhurried as the whorl on stiff red fingertips . " Why do I move among you like a berserk ballerina , tippy - toeing over you filling out your tags and powdering the rest ? I cannot believe anymore that names count . I fear ...
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Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans Larry Rottmann,Jan Barry,Basil T. Paquet No preview available - 1972 |
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25th Infantry Division Afternoon Pickup Game American Basil Bien Hoa blood Blue Jungle Bronze Shades brother bullets chest CHIGAN clouds Cobra dark dead Dick Doc Lap Don Receveur dreams dust dying earth elephant grass eyes face fire fire fire flesh Free Fire Zone Genghis Khan gifts girls gook grass Green Death Green hell green jungle guns hands Hanoi Hannah Herbert Krohn Hoa Binh Honai hootches Hue City Indochina Jan Barry John Stulett kill land Land Of Oz Larry Rottmann limbs lips LZ Gator metal Michael Casey MICHIGAN mouth move Muddy body bags napalm Nha Trang night Paquet peace poem rain rifle Saigon screams Serigo silent sing smell soldiers Song soul of ships Stan Platke Thap Ba Tho's UNIV UNIVERSITY VERSITY Viet village W. D. Ehrhart walk watch wind Winning Hearts Wire wounds Xuan Loc Young In Rice