Best Oppenheimer Poems
Extinction - the Oppenheimer Effect...In the time of the dead Destroying them which destroy the earth ......
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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
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
Hiroshima - Nagasaki 1...
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
Hiroshima, Theodore Van Kirk, Rip...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Categories:
oppenheimer, conflict, crazy, fun, humorous,
Form:
Free verse