Atomic Poems - Poems about Atomic

The sky is a Luciferian estuary rolling and roaring in crimson flames, a twisted design of detonated debris, like splitting sighs from internal implosions, raining fragments of the past: matchbox memories piercing through suffocating silence as time tortures the mind with flashbacks of floating fragility… O invisible moonlight, pour me a purple potion to erase the pain behind perplexed pupils. I no longer desire to be cast in...

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Memento on the moon, our demise that’s too soon— since ancient moral laws, our reasoning had flaws. The Ten Commandments bold, the wisdom of old told, its light spread in a rush, but now collective hush. Man’s creation will bloom, like destructive mushroom casts the atomic streams over our shattered dreams. Echoes of progress vast – tyranny’s shadow cast, encapsulated whim...

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Atomic Canary Angels seed The death bell tolls to the masses Putin ill be your dog Netanyaho ill be your dog I love this land This is where I want yo die Sing a song Soul from the Earth All of us tresspass Some other country wants your ass Not direct assimilate You out on a street leaving your home Lay...

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Cosmic rays catalyzed their mission Mister Fantastic, Reed, led the group He could stretch like atomic fission. He bent and flexed to assist the troupe. Before, girlfriend, later fiancé, Invisible Woman made impact. Sue's force field had significant splay and her bombastic blasts were exact. Johnny, the Human Torch, struck a name. As Sue's brother, he was in the know, used his powers to...

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plain thoughts on minisclule changes, leading to life altering outcome~...

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Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches global threat half cocked. Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttimes iterated throughout history though an atheist (actually Unitarian), no doubt this, that or another psalm countless times the Bible references Armageddon and doomsday impossible mission to remain cool, collected and calm. Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant Democrat or Republican viz blue war...

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Where a newborn star lights the vault of heaven under the sky sapphire, high! You can find it there, Not the product of a god or some such! But, man in his madness brings annihilation to the makers, the father of the nation, a nations ghost the dire lands divide…. Figures in raven cloaks flock in murders...

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Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttimes iterated throughout history though an atheist (actually Unitarian), no doubt this, that or another psalm countless times the Bible references Armageddon and doomsday impossible mission to remain cool, collected and calm. Whether affiliated with donkey or elephant Democrat or Republican viz blue war red respectively political hot issues don't amount to a (Sam) hill of beans when...

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Atomic revolutions bordering the world's cottons....

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New Mexico bears the burdens of its once-sleepy past-- when awakened to join the current century at last. To give birth to the fledgling Atomic Age It still wears the perfume of fusion and sage. They must go to the land of fiestas, Indian bread. Shaken from sleep to design moments of dread. Muddy roads carried scientists, from land and sea, to...

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Atomic payback made impact dramatically Physics split minute energy into mammoth Allied forces warned Hiroshima, Nagasaki Destroyer of worlds, Now I become death Military master, Japan, thought threat outrageous Devastation loomed, four tonne 'Boy' understated Captain William Parsons' eleven crew couragous Strategists secured success in moment awaited Mortally haunted, Heaven bound warrior, Tibbet Executed bitter battle's end with dual...

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Hiroshima Poems 2 I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. -Michael R. Burch, "Epitaph for a Child of Hiroshima" The intense heat and light of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts left behind ghostly silhouettes of human beings whose lives were erased in an instant: Hiroshima Shadows by...

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Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness... not a single candle between them... the odor of blood... the stench of death... the sickly-sweet smell of decaying humanity... the groans... the moans... Out of all that, suddenly, miraculously, a voice: "The baby's coming!" In the hellish...

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Lucifer, To The Enola Gay by Michael R. Burch Go then, and give them my meaning so that their teeming streets become my city. Bring back a pretty flower— a chrysanthemum, perhaps, to bloom if but an hour, within a certain room of mine where the sun does not rise or fall, and the moon, although it is content to shine, helps nothing at all. There, if I...

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I am spinning my radioactive waves today. Alpha beta gamma There they go! Beta gamma alpha Even faster. Gamma alpha beta Man can they fly! I am radium. My atomic nuclei is rapidly disintegrating So please get under your desk, school children. And put your tiny fingers and arms over your heads. So you will be safe....

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