Vietnam
Iraq
combat action war poetry
NEW POEMS
The Last Firebase
Gathering at the Wall That Heals
Names Carved on the Wall
For Her
Don't Worry
Black Snake in my House
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
The First Team
1st Air Cavalry
Semper Fi
Marine
Warrior Wives
Just A Grunt
Iron Horses
One Tin Soldier
Why Don't You Just Get Over It
This We'll Defend
Tunnels of
Cu Chi
Punji Stakes
Journey on Life's Railroad
Taps for the Fallen Brave
Ode to the Dead
Full Circle
Death Highly Exaggerated
Ia Drang
Marlboro Man
Ode to Fallujah
Children of War
Johnson County
Long Tan
The Park
I Still Miss Someone
First Night Willies
Soldier's Heart
Favorites
Vietnam Picture Tour
The poem
Welcome Home!
Thousand Yard Stare
Garland of Brothers
A Combat Soldier's Prayer
Wife of the Man
From Vietnam
It Don't Mean nuthin'
War, What is it Good For?
I Rise
Good and Virtuous Son
Fortunate Son
I FELT I'D DIED
Agent Orange
Feral Stalking Night
Dawn Patrol
Ride into Sherwood
Tales For Our Children
Prayer for soldiers near Iraq!
Freedom!
A Soldier's Seven Guardian Angels
A MOTHER LOST A SON TO WAR
His Empty Eyes
The Patriot Rose
Red Badge of Courage
Distant Echoes
~Iraq~
Portraits of Heroes
Fightin' Hole Blues
Been 35 Years
The Forgotten
What is America
Teaching Our Young
War's Lessons
Trial by Fire
Memories
Boys at War
Ode to the Medic
Rebel Rouser
Humpalong Blues
Last Farewell to Nam
POW/MIA
We Want Them Home
Patty Cake
Sunrise~Sunset
Wars are so different...
yet somehow the same
A Soldier is Dying
On Eagle's Wings
Truth about
Kerry
For Your Tomorrow,
We Gave Our Today
We Were Soldiers
Eye of the Tiger
Combat
Still Patrolling the Perimeter
Old Soldiers Night Sweats
~Reunion~
Blood on the Moon
Waltzing with the Wind
~Rave On~
The Veteran
Soldiers Of The Wall
SOUND OF GUNS
Take the long Way Home
LEGACY
Walk Softly Among The Sacred Graves
Higher Ground
Honoring A Noble Warrior's Life
No Ticker-Tape Parade
Hello God, I'm a soldier
When the Parade Passes By
Season
In The Sun
Mingling With the Dead
Nam's Diatribe
Veterans of Foreign Wars
i'm no hero
Memorial
Wars Seven Deadly Sins
Mine Fair Love Tis Gone
Who are the Heroes
Just Another Day in the Nam
Combat Soldier's Lament
Billy McKeel
Eagle Through The Flames
Into Every Life
Some Rain Must Fall
Nurse Sharon Ann Lane
Warrior
And The
Nurse
Distant Drums
Do You Hear What I hear
Night Patrol
POLICE ACTION
American's All
Memorial tribute to Johnny Cash, "Drive On!"
Millenium Tree
The Peacemaker Cometh
SNOOPY AND THE
RED BARON!
Soar With The Eagles
Papasan
Song Of Napalm
Boy Next Door
Mekong Delta Riverine
9th Infantry
ROCKETS OF TET
Marshall Darling Essay
Gee Mr. Newspaperman
Lost Boyscouts
Airborne
Hill 875!
JUST MARCHIN' THRU THE NAM
Home Sweet Home
LZ Betty!
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Goat Patrol
Verdant Jungle
War's Tome
Clueless
ONCE
Just Before The Battle Mother
What is War
The Vacant Chair
Eagle Flight
Nam's Reveille
My Battlefield
Die A Brave Soldier
Sounds of Silence
Memory Box
Do Not Forget
The Yellow Rose
The Next Generation
Humping The Boonies
Response
by Nancy Meek
A Few Good Men
A World's End
Give Peace A Chance
Credo Of Hate
Love Gone To War
Open My Eyes
Vietnam
Sweet and Sour Perfumed Land
ASSumptions
Closure
Spirits On The Wind
searchNdestroy
When I Was A Child
A Shau Ripcord
Times Of Madness
I've Never seen A General In A Foxhole
You Don't Know Me
Fool Such As I
Just A Roll Of The Dice
California Dreamin'
Nam's Carousel
War And Peace
How Can I Keep From Singing
ptsd
Closed Doors
Somewhere Out There
Warrior Brothers
Courage
Bravery
Fire Mission
Rain On Me
South China Sea Winds Blow
Only The Shadow Knows
He was Sitting on the Fence
Day is Done
The Hill
The Homeless Vet
End of the Beginning
Do You Hear the Call to War
Destruction's Eve
Big Silver Bird
Soldier, Take My Hand
One Foot in the Past
Crossed Swords
Something Left Undone
The Best of Times
Battles Then and Now
The Beat Goes On
Primal Shout
Mad Minute
Tribute To The Memory Of 911
America
Roll Up Your Sleeves
A New Awakening
Terrorism
We The People
Five haunting Vietnamese songs adapted into poems
"Springtime on a Peaceful Hill" ... "The Last Night" ... "Yellow Flowers of Yesteryear"
"Tears for Others" ... "Far Away From Home."
Special for Memorial Day ~~ Veterans Day!
The Veteran
Soldiers Of The Wall
SOUND OF GUNS
Take the long Way Home
LEGACY
Walk Softly Among The Sacred Graves
Higher Ground
Honoring A Noble Warrior's Life
Taps for the Fallen Brave
Ode to the Dead
No Ticker-Tape Parade
Hello God, I'm a soldier
When the Parade Passes By
Mingling With the Dead
Nam's Diatribe
Still Patrolling the Perimeter
Old Soldiers Night Sweats
Veterans of Foreign Wars
i'm no hero
Memorial
Spirits On The Wind
Special Seasonal Poems
Valentine's Day in a Foxhole
Easter in a Foxhole
Thanksgiving in a Foxhole
Christmas in a Foxhole
New Year's Eve in a Foxhole
Nam's Easter Memory
A Soldier's Bright Christmas Star
Wintertime is a Gay Time
Sugarplums Dancing in my Head
The Snowman Ball
Red,
White
And Blue
4th
The Bonny
Red,
White
And Blue
Knightmare Quest spook alley
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Vietnam Picture tour,"
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