Rainbow Death:

America did not foresee Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri! Expecting others to pay a high price. Now thinking twice? Toll on the innocent and unborn. Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn. Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead. All the deceit continues to spread. Nefariously America led astray - Generations untold WILL pay - Execrable effects of agent orange spray! Hubert Wilson

Conflict represented in the poem:
Firstly, let's start off with the poet's background. Hubert Wilson was a soldier who served in the Vietnam war in the USAF service. He was sent to Shemya island in Alaska, a place heavily contaminated with Agent Orange, a type of herbicidal gas used to clear forests in Vietnam in order to expose the hiding spots of the Vietnamese guerillas. It is part of the "Rainbow herbicides", a group of herbicides used for herbicidal warfare and as its name suggests, it consists of gases which had names such as "Agent Blue" and "Agent Purple", which were all highly toxic and indeed, he contracted numerous disease after his service. He begin to suffer from Parkinson-like symptoms and lose control of his central nervous system yet no physician or doctor could diagnose his condition. However, his mind still functions well despite the Agent-Orange poisoning and he has thus turned to writing.

His poems are dedicated to exposing the horrors of chemical warfare, especially those used in the Vietnam War which he had personal experience of. Rainbow Death is one such example, in order to display the inhumane use of Agent Orange.. Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant, contaminated with TCDD used by the U.S. military in its herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War.
According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth defects.


Bibliography:
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2010warpoetry.html#Rainbow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange