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Best Hiroshima Poems

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Premium Member Hiroshima
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...

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Categories: hiroshima, war,
Form: Sedoka



Hiroshima
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...

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Categories: hiroshima, black african american, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Freedom Finds the Fire
You'll find it in the crimson eyes
of a throwaway photo somehow frozen in time.
When the past painted us like demons
with secret fury.
And you'll find it...

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Categories: hiroshima, allegory, analogy, beauty, deep,
Form: Romanticism
I Have Been To Places of Great Death
I have been to places of great death:
walking the battlefield at Gettysburg,
as a lusty young man of no firm belief
who stepped between the great rocks
of...

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Categories: hiroshima, allegory, angel, death, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Onslaught
#One should be cautious in starting a war, but 
once begun, it should be carried out thoroughly#

     #Quote by Hirohito circa...

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Categories: hiroshima, allusion, america, world war
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Abandoned Cities
FUKUSHIMA, OCEAN EXPOSURE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eGzS0eYuo

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFPEY-r9QQY





"Abandoned Cities"


Empty sentries standing firm
Vacant windows glistening
they sit with Poe, Van Gough and Edvard Munch all broken
waiting patiently...

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Categories: hiroshima, holocaust, humanity, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Terra Incognita
So strange this land, old and yet young.
Where is this place of tall green trees,
and grey-haired men in unknown tongue?
they must have traveled summer's breeze.

Adobe...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hiroshima, 12th grade, america, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A World Without War
Peace and unity sing in harmony, echoing worldwide,
When acts of humility replace revenge-infused pride,
When narrowness of mind, naked ambitions subside,
When nations of goodwill, stand together...

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Categories: hiroshima, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Don'T Ask Me About My Education
From time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I...

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Categories: hiroshima, angel, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form: Narrative
Stick To His Rules, He Not Human Actually Rules
( On backdrop of current JAPAN tragedy. 
Dedicated to all who lost lives and property in worst devastation ever. 
Our sincere prayers for their salvation,...

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Categories: hiroshima, natural disasters
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is Poetry
I thought poetry is
-name of Mesopotamia which was the first civilization to emerge in human history
-ancient cave peoples surviving life struggle 

I thought poetry is
-an...

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Categories: hiroshima, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silhouettes On the Stage 1953
Lying still on the class room floor,
brown paper for a bottom sheet.
All the children were gathered round
and my outline was complete.

A cookie cutter girl was...

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Categories: hiroshima, childhood, death, history, waraugust,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Beneath the Sword of Damocles
Beneath the Sword of Damocles

As we nurse our nuclear nightmares
in a not to certain day
We are conjoined in common phobia
of madness or foul play.

Little children...

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Categories: hiroshima, war,
Form: Quatrain
It Still Moves
IT STILL MOVES

the earth complains
of heartburn in California
ulcers in Iraq
chicken pox in Afghanistan
sneezes and wheezes hurricanes in Atlantic
acid reflux somewhere in Mexico
it has chills at...

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Categories: hiroshima, earth,
Form: Blank verse
Partialling the Truth
Listen here!
I am hurting up all over
Lying here undiscovered

Papparazzi cumulus are jostling in my street
God is taking photos of the remnants of His sheep
Climbing footholds...

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Categories: hiroshima, angst, baptism, pain,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things