Best Hiroshima Poems

a motionless pond

reflects an unblemished sky 

where war once swallowed the sun -

blossoms drift like tears

skimming over ancient wounds

while doves fly against the wind




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For Brian Strand's Contest: #218...

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I was caught off guard by the everlasting effect of your smile.
In all honesty I thought I was prepared for the well placed explosion that took place in my heart.
In actuality, I was not.
Absent minded to the total embodiment that was you.
The coming of your...

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Shadows only remain
Where life stood its ground
Far above their air
Its devastation burned down

(To all those who have lost from war...)...

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(Every year on  August 6, Japanese people observe
the Hiroshima day by releasing hundreds of white pigeons 
in the blue sky of peace memorial park, the then bomb 
blast area. I visited that area on the Hiroshima day of 1999)
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I still smell the smoke of...

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Straight, direct meaning, 
No ambiguity or question, 
Of relationship or hearing, 
Only malicious attestation. 

Seventy-five thousand, 
Killed by the 15 kiloton bomb, 
In one there was no pasture land, 
For the innocent overthrown.

Red fluid permeated, 
Scolded the lungs of the fit, 
No reactions competed, 
With...

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HIROSHIMA
I remember it well, that first day in Hell
             So long ago, I know

As the sirens sounded our Yankee foe
Decided that now his power we would know
So dropped his Atomic Bomb from the...

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Thank you… Hiroshima...! 
You let all the masks fall, 
Revealing 
The ugly faces we have 

O Hiroshima, 
You are flocks of dead sparrows, 
Spreading from earth to heaven... 
You are our biggest defeat 
That is embellished 
With shame and disgrace… 

We are killed 
before we...

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On that day, in Aug 45
Bomber over the city that's very much alive
Nervous crew, cloudy day
Pilots instructions, open bomb bay

The words above as the pilot has said
What happens next the World dreads
The catch releases as Little Boy goes
Are they really enemies, are they really foes?

As...

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On that day in Aug 1945
Bomber over the city that's very much alive
Nervous crew, cloudy day
Pilots instructions, open bomb bay

The words above as the pilot said
What happens next the world dreads
The catch releases as Little Boy goes
Are they really enemies, are they really foes

As he...

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Destruction falling
See baby doctor at ten...
Little boy coming

Not to make light of dropping an atomic bomb, but when one stops and thinks of all the 
normal every day things going through the minds of those people while Little Boy is falling, at 
8:15  am,...

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Japan now our friend  
Unlike 1945 
Prayers keep Hope alive 

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Contest: Tribute to Japan
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi...

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 ( Lyrics by Queen )
    Teo torriatte konomama iko
    Aisuruhito yo
    Shizukana yoi ni, Hikario tomoshi
    Itoshiki oshieo idaki

    Let us cling together as the years go by
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Mushroom clouds
raining radioactive death
After the blinding light,
a wasteland is all that was left
Charred bones littered everywhere
Those who lived there
had their flesh vaporized into thin air
In the land of the rising sun,
a profound tragedy did unfold
A tale of two cities
Will the lessons learned take hold?

Hiroshima dreams
are...

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Under a clear blue sky 
The old city 
That once lay in ruins 
Is now flourishing with life, 
A Phoenix risen from the ashes. 

         W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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Seventy Three Years Since 1945
(August 6 and 9 respectively)

Robert Oppenheimer manned 
"The Manhattan Project",
a top secret World War II mission
which constituted "Little Boy" codename 

for a uranium gun-type atomic 
bomb dropped at 0815
exploding 580 metres above civilians 
with15 kiloton blast yield reduced 

400 year old...

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