LOU J. KLAIBER
“Red Cowboy”

Other

• 1944 (A Poem for My Grandfather)
• 3 Corps AO... Midnight Long Ago
• 3am (Nov 7, 2003)
• 4am
• 6,600 Reasons...
• 9/11
• 9-11-2001

A

• A Bed of Sacred Cherrywood
• A Better Place
• A Christmas Visit
• A Day in the Heat of War
• A Letter to You... Diane
• A Little Rain... Today
• A Meditation
• A Moment of Silence
• A Nickel for James
• A Place Within
• A Prayer
• A Prayer...
• A Small Epiphany
• 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
• At The Wall
• At the Wall... (1999)
• August 26, 1966

B

• 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

C

• CAL + 2 cents...... Placed Upon a Page
• Canto 1 (A poem of sadness in memory of Teresa)
• Choices: A Response
• Coleman Hawkins
• Crossing Midnight
• Cuts Like a Knife

D

• 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
• Deep in the Night
• Deros
• Deros (Camp Alpha: 19 November 1966)
• Desolate Dream
• Dino
• Distant Daughters
• Drifting... Always Drifting

E

• Enigma... at Dawn
• Essential Poetry
• Every Panel... and Every Name
• Every Time I See A Brother's Face...

F

• 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 Diane... 2003
• For Diane (Inspired by Stacey Jones)
• For DJT... USMC
• for Doctor Vietti!
• For Donna G
• For Jessi Lynch
• 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

G

• 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

H

• Hands upon the River
• 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 (Dedicated to Grey Eagle)
• Home... Was Then... And That
• Hope

I

• 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 Walked With Them Today
• I Washed My Truck...
• I Will Keep Them...
• I Wonder......
• ... In My Head
• ... in silence
• In the Old Way

J

• 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 More Rambling

K

• Kaleidoscope
• Katy
• Keeping a Promise
• Kenneth Patchen and his Wife, Miriam... 1965
• Korea... 50th Anniversary
• Ky Nam Dreaming... (long ago)

L

• Lady Liberty
• Lame Boy
• Late at Night...
• Lessons at Midnight
• Letters Home
• Light From Shadows
• Lighting a Prayer
• Little One
• Long Ago!
• Long Ago...... Today
• Lookin' Back... On Vietnam......
• Lost and Found
• Lost Daughter of Mine

M

• 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

N

• 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

O

• 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

P

• 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

Q

R

• Reflection
• Reflections
• Release
• Remembering '65 at 65
• Restless Night
• Run Daddy... Run!
• ... running from the fire with a screaming child

S

• Saddles on the Wind
• Saigon-Cholon Dreaming...!
• Scars
• September 21, 2001... POW/MIA Recognition Day
• Shadows on the Ridgeline
• Shadows Owed
• She Dances
• Shelter of Angels
• Shields
• Shields - A Soldier's Prayer
• Short Poem (For River Chief)
• Shot the Hell Out of It!
• Silence
• 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
• Soldier's Home
• Some Came Home
• Some Men Died
• Sometimes... I Listen (as the night whispers)
• Somewhere
• Soulfood
• Southerner
• Storm Warning

T

• 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 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 Flute of Remembrance
• The Foggy Fields of Time
• The Frog and the Scorpion
• The Girl Was Waving
• The Gunners
• The Gunship Dream (For Tony Pahl)
• The Healing
• The Heat by the River towards Home......
• The Holiness
• The Holiness of Rain
• The Holy
• The Lady Held a Flag
• The Little Children
• The Mag 7... 1966
• The Many and the Few
• The Maudlin... Speaks
• The Medals that Never Fade Away
• The Men from Oz
• The Minute Has Gone...... 3am
• 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
• The Nights
• The Old Veteran
• The Olympics... and a Horrible Death
• The Place of Dark Angels
• The Poem... (in solitude)
• 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 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 Those Who Have Not Been to 'The Wall'
• To My Enemy (excerpt)
• Today's Military and... US!
• Touch Me...
• Touching Home
• Trees
• Troopship
• Truth Is...
• Twilight (Part 5)
• Two Americans
• Two Poems... and a Broken Heart!

U

• Uncle Dash... (A Remembrance)
• Uncle Marvin... (D-Day, 1944)
• Unknown Sister... (June 1966)
• Unless You Can...!
• untitled... Days to Remember
• untitled... Dreams
• untitled... Drums
• untitled... Free Falling
• untitled... History Remembers
• untitled... Remember When?
• untitled... Remembering Steve Mason
• Us

V

• VA Hospital (Dublin, Georgia)
• Veterans' Day, 2001
• Vets of Nam

W

• Warrior Tree
• Warrior's Heart
• Waycross... 1989
• We Called Him Doc!
• We Carried Them...
• We Carry Them
• 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
• Windsong (For Lil Vickie from Alabama)
• Words
• Wounded in the World

X

Y

• Young Soldier

Z

• Zack