Quotes about nam, page 10
Our Veterans of Fought Wars
Those who profess to be patriotic.
And sway hypnotically,
In both praise and song.
Yet allow their soldiers...
To lay homelessly in their streets.
With lost dignities and no food to eat.
Day and night long!
Sickens me with their high brow hypocrisies.
When our veterans of fought wars...
Are treated as if poison,
Oozes from their pores.
With many of them still left abandoned.
To fight and struggle in danger.
On foreign shores ignored.
And I hear the voices scream,
About their liberties being demeaned.
With their marketed decadence,
On the top of their lists.
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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Wedding Cake-A Song
Now that the night is approaching the midnight
I hear the pounding sounds on the window panes
Not able to sleep I look out the windows to see
if you are there somewhere
but you are already long gone
only the wedding cake I see
Wonder who left the wedding cake...?
O I am going away, oh my sad love...!
After this night's over,
I am going to someone I don't want
With tears in my eyes,
I am going to someone who is not you
After this night's over,
I am going to someone I don't love
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poem by Sangnam Nam
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Familiar With the Setting
I was not raised on islands of enchantment.
Nor do I know anyone who drives a Bentley,
And lives in a mansion!
For some reason,
I was born into a reality...
That came to test my every breath.
And games played like 'dodgeball'
And hide and seek...
Came in very handy as I grew older.
And for a number of years,
I lived in emotional shock!
From losing friends I knew to a nonsense war.
That once was called Viet Nam.
Now a vacation destination!
A tourist 'must see' spot.
I've witnessed some wonderful people,
Pass on!
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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Wind Of The Human Spirit... (Part Two)
i came to America on a slave ship,
to work their fields in the sun.
and the earth i plowed gave up the bones,
of the ones they'd killed to make their home.
i hung from their trees in the moonlight,
as they drank with chests that swelled.
i signed the Emancipation Proclamation,
with the blood of the Civil War...
and when each had finished their task,
mine had just begun.
i felt the bomb at Hiroshima,
and became a nuclear ghost.
i swallowed napalm in Viet Nam,
while they protested on Kennedy's grave.
i was with Martin on the balcony,
and with Bobby on the floor...
and when each had finished their task,
mine had just begun.
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An Elegy on the Death of Montgomery Tappen
An elegy on the death of MONTGOMERY TAPPEN who dies at Poughkeepsie on the 20th of Nov. 1784 in the ninth year of his age.
The sweetest, gentlest, of the youthful train,
Here lies his clay cold upon the sable bier!
He scarce had started on life's varied plain,
For dreary death arrested his career.
His cheek might vie with the expanded rose,
And Genius sparkled in his azure eyes!
A victim so unblemish'd Heaven chose,
And bore the beauteous lambkin to the skies.
Adieu thou loveliest child! Adieu adieu!
Our wishes fain would follow thee on high.
What more can friendship - what more fondness do,
But drop the unbidden tear & heave the sigh?
Ye youths whose ardent bosoms virtue fires,
Who eager wish applause and pant for fame,
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?? Wilderness - Lee Yuksa
까마득한 날에
In the beginning of the time
하늘이 처음 열리고
when the sky opened for the first time
어데 닭 우는 소리 들렸으랴
Where would there be a cock crow?
모든 산맥들이
though all the mountains
바다를 연모해 휘달릴 때도
yearned and ran for the seas
차마 이곳을 범하던 못하였으리라
they couldn't dare offend this place
끊임없는 광음을
through the endless lights and sounds
부즈런한 계절이 피어선지고
the dilligent seasons bloomed and waned
큰 강물이 비로소 길을 열었다지금 눈 나리고
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Khamoshi
Thodi sone si dhoop he...
Thodi chandi si chandni...
Thoda gam tumhe bhi he...
Thoda mujhe bhi...
Thodi bebasi he... Aankhe teri bhi nam he
Meri bhi...
Chal aaj fir ithlate he... muskurate he...
Aaj dil se puchha aakhir tu kyu khamosh he...
Hotho pe jo baat kabhi aa na saki...
Aankho me wo kyon zalakne lagi?
Khamoshi ka ye sama kab tak chalega...
Pattiyo ne mujhse kaha 'duniya me aisa hi hota he'
Jugnu ke pichhe pichhe pata nahi kaha chale aaye...
Shayad wo wadiya kho gai he...
Aaj dilse puchha aakhir tu kyu khamosh he...
Nange pair chale the wo raho par...
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What Were They Like?
Did the people of Viet Nam
use lanterns of stone?
Did they hold ceremonies
to reverence the opening of buds?
Were they inclined to quiet laughter?
Did they use bone and ivory,
jade and silver, for ornament?
Had they an epic poem?
Did they distinguish between speech and singing?
Sir, their light hearts turned to stone.
It is not remembered whether in gardens
stone gardens illumined pleasant ways.
Perhaps they gathered once to delight in blossom,
but after their children were killed
there were no more buds.
Sir, laughter is bitter to the burned mouth.
A dream ago, perhaps. Ornament is for joy.
All the bones were charred.
it is not remembered. Remember,
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Nineteen-Eighty
It was the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen-Eighty
A Southerner, Rosalynn, was still our first lady
Becoming lifelong friends at our place of employment
The next three decades…full of heartache and enjoyment
I burned the roads up in a green Ford Gran Torino
Silly me, I thought my car was as hot as a jalapeño
Litha had a Pontiac Firebird and you drove a VW Bug
You were sad the day a semi smashed it like a garden slug
You got wedded and became a mother to Josh and Wynne
I did the same and fathered two, Kyle and Jackie Lynn
Both marriages went the way of the bloody war in Viet Nam
I tried wedlock again, fathering twin boys, Jake and Sam
Yet again, my marital bliss ended like a Japanese kamikaze
Good thing I'm not famous, can you imagine the paparazzi
I moved back home, and we agreed to meet for a cup of joe
Before we knew it sparks flew, and soon I became your beau
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Forever
잊으라 했는데 잊어 달라 했는데
You asked me to forget about you
그런데도 아직안 너를 잊지 못하네
Yet still I can't forget you
어떻게 잊을까 어찌하면 좋을까
How can I? O what should I do?
세월가도 아직난 너를 잊지 못하네
Even after the long years have passed
sill I can't forget you
아직나는 너를 사랑하고 있나봐
Perhaps I might still love you
아마나는 너를 잊을수가 없나봐
perhaps I might not be able to forget you
영원히 영원히 내가사는 날까지
forever eternally till I die,
아니내가 죽어도 영영 못잊을거야
No, even after i die,
I might not be able to forget you
아직나는 너를 사랑하고 있나봐
Perhaps I might still love you
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