Interview with Bikini Atoll
Interviewer:
What is the original name for your island chain now called Bikini?
What happened to it?
What has it become here and now?
What is your future?
Bikini Atoll:
Well where do I begin?
We have been assaulted from the very beginning.
The name for the island is 'Pikinni',
meaning a "flat surface of coconuts".
German colonials corrupted this to
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Categories:
atoll, home,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
atoll, imagery, moon, night, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Sunniest Days
Dogged In the pursuit of truth
Science writes text with bone dead words
Worse parched than extra dry vermouth
Oft as tasty as rancid curds.
Keeping terms tight as verbal shields
Description is the task of prose,
The draft horse of the science fields,
That ploughs grounds where ignorance grows.
It plants the seeds of truth in rows
Which may produce some bitter
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Categories:
atoll, earth, moon, night, science,
Form: Rhyme
Atoll
crystal white sand shines
sun clear aqua encircles
lush palms wave greenly
Written: 26
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Categories:
atoll, nature,
Form: Haiku
Battered Soul On Stranded Atoll
Barren atoll of the beached, stranded soul
Jilted psyche cornered on dark, rocky knoll
Wavering compass points to ever drifting pole
Listless anchor in choppy waters does troll
Tumultuous portents all fleeting hopes parole
Overcast skies, tomorrow's outlook even more droll
Boisterous waves of anguish crash on lifeless shoal
Brackish foam of revulsion o'er vexed mind does roll
Briny mist, dense fog o'er
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Categories:
atoll, angst,
Form: Rhyme