Lou J. Klaiber
Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5
Index of Writings
- 1944: A Poem for My Grandfather
- 3 Corps AO… Midnight Long Ago
- 3:00 am: Nov 7, 2003
- 4:00 am
- 6,600 Reasons To Salute The Officers This Memorial Day
- 9/11
- 9-11-2001
- A Bed of Sacred Cherrywood
- A Better Place
- A Blues Song For Yahoo
- A Christmas Visit
- A Day in the Heat of War
- A Fire Long Ago
- A Frame Of Mind
- A Letter To You… Diane
- A Little Rain… Today
- A Meditation
- A Meditation At Tybee Island
- A Moment of Silence
- A Nickel for James
- A Place Within
- A Prayer
- A Prayer…
- A Soldier Has Gone…!
- A Sunset and a Prayer
- A Torn and Tattered Flag
- A Vision of Tay Ninh
- Adios! Marine!
- Against Dark Times
- Air Wolves
- American Girl
- Americans and Allies
- And I Say To You…
- And So May You Remember…
- Another Stormy Night
- Anthems, Angels… And Old Men’s Dreams
- Anthony Pahl
- Anzac Day, 2005
- As A Child
- At The Wall
- At The Wall… 1999
- August 26, 1966
- Beauty and the Beast
- Becoming Wolf
- Beneath Tall Pines and a Blue Sky
- Beside the Fire
- Billy Loco
- Birds
- Blood Brothers
- Blood, Death… And Memory
- Boiled Peanuts
- ‘Bowlegs’ Dreaming
- Bracelets… (Then and Now)
- Brothers in Arms
- Buck Sergeant’s Choice
- Building a Road
- Buy a Hot Tub
- Cal + 2 Cents… Placed Upon A Page
- Choices: A Response
- Clouds Talking!
- Coleman Hawkins
- Crossing Midnight
- Cuts Like a Knife
- Danny
- Dark Moon Rising: 1966
- Darkness and Daylight
- Dawn Of A Day In… 1966
- Dead…
- Dead Boys…!
- Dear Mom
- Dearest Dreamer
- Death of a Soldier
- Death Shall Know
- December Fog
- Deep in the Night
- Deros
- DEROS: Camp Alpha, 19 Nov 1966
- Desolate Dream
- Diane
- Dino
- Distant Daughters
- Drifting… Always Drifting
- Enigma… At Dawn
- Eros Untitled
- Essential Poetry
- Every Panel… And Every Name
- Every Time I See A Brother’s Face…
- Faces in the Crowd
- Fact Is… Vietnam!
- Fading Memories…
- Falling Into San Francisco… November 1966
- Far From Home
- Feathers and Fire
- Field Stripping Memories…
- Fire Dreams
- For a Shadow Soldier
- For Casey…
- For Christina
- For Cody, Allison, JJ, Tony… And All
- For Diane
- For Diane… 2003
- For DJT… USMC
- for Doctor Vietti!
- For Donna G
- For Jessi Lynch… Thank You Gal… With Love
- For My Brother: Thurman “Woody” Woodfork
- … For Shoshanna Johnson
- For Those Who Serve Today
- for Woody
- … For You My Love
- From a Truck Windshield at Sunrise
- From Mike “The Bike” :Last Words
- Frozen Time and Long Ago
- Garden of Iron
- Ghostdancin’
- God Bless and Hold Too, Our Newest Veterans Who Today Remain In
- Golfing Tomorrow
- Good Question!
- Goodbye Sir
- Grandfather… In Spirit
- Guess It Never Mattered… Anyway
- Gulf at Golf
- Gunfire Blues
- Hands upon the River
- Hanoi Hannah?
- He Held On… Forever (A Sacred Prayer)
- He Remains
- He Said ‘Goodbye’… Today!
- He Shot My Dog
- He was a Common Man
- Heavy Boots
- Heroes
- Hit Your Knees and Pray
- Holding Lady Liberty
- Holding You
- Holidays
- Hollow Dreams
- … Home Of The Brave
- Home… Was Then… And That
- Hope
- I Am Not A Young Marine
- I Am Your Flag
- I Brought Them Home… My Love!
- I Cry Because…
- I Hear The Drums… Again!
- I Listen to the Freedom
- I Lost Him
- I Paint My Brothers
- I Saw You That Day…
- I Shall Stand Once More… My Brother
- I Think We Are Going to War
- I Took it Home
- I Walk Slowly Now!
- I Walked With Them Today
- I Washed My Truck…
- I Will Keep Them…
- I Wonder…
- … In My Head
- … In Silence
- In the Old Way
- Inside… Out!
- JB
- Jimmie’s Rifle
- John Thomas Died Today
- Johnny Cash
- Jonesie
- Journey of an Orphan who went to War… Long Ago
- Jungle Valkyrie
- Just a Case of Poetic License
- Just Dreamin’
- Just More Rambling
- Kaleidoscope
- Katy
- Keeping a Promise
- Kenneth Patchen And His Wife, Miriam… 1965
- Korea… 50th Anniversary
- Ky Nam Dreaming… (Long Ago)
- Lady Liberty
- Lame Boy
- Late At Night…
- Lessons at Midnight
- Let Us Live For Now
- Letters Home
- Life Shall Come To Life… Once Again
- Light From Shadows
- Lighting a Prayer
- Little One
- Long Ago!
- Long Ago
- Long Ago… Today
- Long Ago… Today
- Lookin’ Back… On Vietnam…
- Lost and Found
- Lost Daughter of Mine
- Many Trees Talking
- Memorial Day… 2002
- Memory… Ghosts And All
- Memory of a Soldier
- Mood Heat… Mood Sand
- Most Men Don’t Know…
- Musings From… Far Canyons Of Time
- My Children
- My Hand upon the Black
- My Love
- My Three Stripes
- Names On The Wall… (1999)
- Night Watch
- Night Winds Calling
- Nights at Home
- Nini
- Nini: Saigon/Cholon, Vietnam 1966
- No Answers Old Man
- No Guarantees… My Friends
- No Remains Returned
- Ode to Earth
- Oh Vietnam!
- Oh Vietnam!
- Oh!… Vietnam!
- Old Justins!
- Old Soldier
- Old Soldiers
- Omaha Beach, June 1964
- On the Death of Bob Hope
- On the Road to Tay Ninh
- One For All… And All For Diane
- One of the CHOSIN Few!
- One Soldier
- Open Mic Nights
- Painted Pony
- Part of Me Will Remain There
- Patrol
- Perhaps I Am Wrong
- Perhaps it was a Gift
- PFC Johnson
- Phantasm and Poetry
- Phantom Queen of the Battle
- Pictures of Soldiers
- Places without Mercy
- Playin’ Shakespeare!
- POW/MIA
- Prayer for Lori
- Prayer on the Wind
- PTSD
- Rambling Thoughts At Christmas
- Reality Begins At Home
- Reflection
- Reflections
- Release
- Remembering ‘65 At 65
- Remembering Dylan Thomas
- Restless Night
- Run Daddy… Run!
- … Running From The Fire With A Screaming Child
- Saddles on the Wind
- Saigon-Cholon Dreaming…!
- Scars
- September 21, 2001… POW/MIA Recognition Day
- Shadows on the Ridgeline
- Shadows Owed
- She Dances
- She Whispers To Me…!
- Shelter of Angels
- Shields
- Shields ~ A Soldier’s Prayer
- Short Poem For River Chief
- Shot the Hell Out of It!
- Silence
- Sleeping On The Wind…!
- Small Beings
- Smoke and Memory
- Smoke from the Fire of Tears
- So It Is… So It Was…
- So Much!
- Soldier
- Soldier Alone
- Soldier’s Anthem
- Soldiers’ Dream
- Soldiers’ Home
- Some Came Home
- Some Men Died
- Sometimes… I Listen As The Night Whispers
- Somewhere
- Soulfood
- Southerner
- Starsong
- Storm Warning
- T-Shirt Patriots
- Takin’ The Shot
- Tears and Angels
- Tecumseh Dreams…!
- Thanks Gal!
- Thanks To Ya’ll
- The Altar of War
- The Anvil
- The ‘Aw Shits’
- The Blessings of America
- The Brave
- The Brave…
- The Brave Down Under
- The Buddha Boys
- The Circle… Unbroken
- The Corners Of A Round Earth
- The Dances… We Remember
- The DEROS Bird
- The DEROS Boys
- The Desperado Boys…
- The Distant Drums
- The Dream… Again
- The Drum that Beats Forever
- The Far Away…
- The Far Land
- The Faraway… Home!
- The Field Cross
- The Fire Dances
- The Foggy Fields of Time
- The Freedom Wind
- The Frog and the Scorpion
- The Future Of Remembrance
- The Girl Was Waving
- The Gunners
- The Gunship Dream (For Tony Pahl)
- The Healing
- The Heat By The River Toward Home…
- The Holiness
- The Holiness of Rain
- The Holy
- The Lady Held a Flag
- The Lesson
- The Little Children
- The Mag 7… 1966
- The Many and the Few
- The Maudlin… Speaks
- The Medal that Never Fades Away
- The Men from Oz
- The Minute Has Gone… 3pm
- The Mission
- The Moon Reflecting Brightly
- The Moonlight Upon the Hills of Home
- The Music… Hidden In The Rain
- The Mystery of Liberty
- The Nature of Liberty
- The NCO Beer Tent
- The Night I Thought Of Heaven ~ 1969
- The Nights
- The Old Veteran
- The Olympics… And A Horrible Death
- The Place of Dark Angels
- The Poem… In Solitude
- The Possum Sleeps In My Lap
- The Purpose of War
- The Rain
- The Raven’s Wing
- The Remembrance
- The River
- The Rocks by the River
- The Silence
- The Silence
- The Spring Of ‘67
- The Sunset Rodeo
- The Trees Have Tears
- The Troopship Poem: November 1965
- The Wannabe Poem
- The War at Home
- The Way It Was… Back Then
- The Way of Angels
- The Words Beyond… Our Fathers
- Their Eyes
- There… (Nam 1966)
- These Old Hands
- They Remain!
- Things
- This Memorial Day
- Those Forgotten
- Thoughts
- Thoughts on the Perimeter
- Thoughts on this Memorial Day
- Three Fifths… In Time
- Thunder and Rain and the Rust of War
- Time
- Time is Falling Away
- Time Takes It All Away
- To All Who Have Not Been To ‘The Wall’
- To My Enemy (excerpt)
- Today’s Military And… Us!
- Touch Me…
- Touching Home
- Touching The Sky…
- Trees
- Troopship
- Truth Is…
- Twilight (Part 5)
- Two Americans
- Two Poems… And A Broken Heart!
- Uncle Dash… (A Remembrance)
- Uncle Marvin… (D-Day, 1944)
- Unknown Sister… (June 1966)
- Unless You Can…!
- Untitled… Days Of Remembrance
- Untitled… Dreams
- Untitled… Drums
- Untitled… Free Falling
- Untitled… History Remembers
- Untitled… Remember When?
- Untitled… Remembering Steve Mason
- Us
- War Huh?
- Warrior Tree
- Warrior’s Heart
- Waycross… 1989
- We Called Him Doc!
- We Carried Them…
- We Carry Them
- We Remember
- Welder
- What is Winter?
- What Ol’ Sam Said…!
- What Percentage of the War did You Do Daddy?
- … What Remains?
- What Remains……
- When All the Living Ways… Are Gone
- When Dreams of Peace Oil the Rag in the Barrel of the Gun
- When Freedom Smiles
- … When the Sun went down
- Where is Home… Anymore?
- Where the Moon Rides
- Whispering Angels
- Why?
- Why Did I?
- Why The Wall…… is Sacred
- Why War?
- Wild Horses Have No Home
- William Blake’s… Tiger
- WindSong
- Words
- Workin’ It Out…
- Wounded in the World