Best Oppenheimer Poems


Extinction - the Oppenheimer Effect
...In the time of the dead                                                                          Destroying them which destroy the earth                             ......

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppenheimer, age, christian, irony, natural
Form: Free verse
Science and Faith
...They are not natural enemies, 
nor were they ever meant to be ....
True, for a time when Faith was strong, 
Science was bound, cowed, driven down--
until Science began its growth spurt: 
by leap......

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Categories: oppenheimer, allusion, faith, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse
Trinity Test
...TRINITY TEST

“If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme splendor of the Lord”(Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 1......

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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, america, earth, war,
Form: Haiku

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Poem Zero
...maybe the ones who have left

us early by the malice of their own

hand knew what matters most:

procreation; the evolution of

planetary life amply illuminated, steeled

to survive......

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Categories: oppenheimer, angst, death, earth, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiroshima - Nagasaki 1
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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 th......

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Categories: oppenheimer, city, day, death, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hiroshima, Theodore Van Kirk, Rip
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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......

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Categories: oppenheimer, america, angst, death, judgement,
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member My View of Heaven
...Sapphires, rubies, emeralds, garnets, gold, silver, and topaz
Compared to our super beautiful heaven have no pizzazz.
This mystical magical angel empowering kind place 
Is completely indescribable......

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Categories: oppenheimer, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Oppenheimer
...~ Such irony Creation would devise
a mind that holds the secrets Hell conceals.
‘Tis blasphemous that man would improvise
a conduit that prophecy reveals.
  ‘Tis but a curse to be the chosen one
......

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Categories: oppenheimer, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Death By Oppenheimer
...

For knowledge and wisdom, I glean
     geometry, physics, science,
philosophy, and tomes umpteen!
     In search of shrewd intelligence,
I forsake college's campus scene;
     and pursue rhy......

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Categories: oppenheimer, allusion, art, death, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Hiroshima N Nagasaki
...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 

f......

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Categories: oppenheimer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945
...Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleash......

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Categories: oppenheimer, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the collective hubris of our indifference to ants
...
We walk the earth as lords of all
only judeo-christian types of course
We crush the weak and heed no call
history is written by the winners
We think ourselves the smartest rac......

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Categories: oppenheimer, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trinity
...To be a god that holds the devil’s lease
has placed the weight of Earth upon my soul.
‘Tis but a curse that undermines the peace
as self-destruction seeks its fatal goal. 
Our path from Eden chan......

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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, irony, storm,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Beyond Real
...when Animal Farm is not a feeding manual

and Clockwork Orange strikes at midnight

Dali’s time piece warps under face value

and an eagle-eyed-cuckoo flies over its nest


beneath the cover......

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Categories: oppenheimer, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Adam Had Not Met Eve Hitler Should Have Met Freuid
...If only Eve hadn’t met Adam
And angry Hitler had met Freuid
If Stanley never met Ollie
And David Gilmore had never been in Pink Floyd
Shakespeare had run out of ink and quill for a pen
Mother Hu......

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppenheimer, conflict, crazy, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse
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