A letter from Nam

Charles Martin 1952 (Akron, Ohio)



"My love" it begins while all ears listen,
While in the Nam the cold steel glistens,
"I'm fighting for freedom and my loved ones back home",
As the letter goes on, the young soldier is alone.
The letter goes on, signed love from our hero,
While the sights of a rifle are suddenly zero.
The trigger is pulled, the bullet sent flying,
In less than a moment the young soldier is dying.
Back home his young wife had just bore a child,
That is fatherless because mankind went wild.

About this poem

My brother back in the 1970s lost a good friend in Vietnam. This poem is about his friend and how his death effected his family

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Written on June 17, 1973

Submitted by cchasman11 on August 17, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEEFFGG
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 476
Words 98
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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    Thought provoking!
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