CHERNOBYL
ON TV hey say mothers are heroes and schizophrenics high
If birthing and bringing the child is so difficult
Remember the story of mine
You are standing legs in radioactive water
You know you life will soon end
But you are doing the job because you should because you can
Because you must
Because you have to
and tears
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Categories:
chernobyl, military,
Form: Free verse
Chernobyl
Chernobyl.
A nuclear disaster, in the Russian town Chernobyl,
An odor-less killer, the invisible force.
As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,
We must cool it down, before it blows.
Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,
The town of 35000; first on the list of infected people.
No warnings to the town folk, no evacuation,
The town’s men in the know, know the
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Categories:
chernobyl, cry, death, sun, world,
Form: I do not know?
Chernobyl Gases
Hearts irradiated gasp
Neutrons scatter at the clasp
Architecture crumbles heaven
Kremlin scrambles level seven
Xeric tissue lacks retention
RNs wilting for Roentgen
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Categories:
chernobyl, dark, death, health, power,
Form: Free verse
Chernobyl
Ukraine, the then USSR
Has man's intelligence gone to far
Or is carelessness on a greater scale
Where lessons not learnt
Were sure to fail
Radiation
We have been here before
Long Island, and Little Big Boys score
Devastation on life and land
In Chernobyl, our legacy stands
Fall out was large on a grand scale
More than Hiroshima, another man's fail
The aftermath
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Categories:
chernobyl, natural disasters
Form: Rhyme
Chernobyl
Over a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka
And slices of kalbasa…. and cold breeze
Of first September, you proudly spoke to me
Of Lenin; we sat beneath the apple tree.
I disagreed not, with your thoughts
Neither, I agreed. It’s just I had no time
To argue, nor speak about him right now,
For my mind was fixated. A
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Categories:
chernobyl, death, history, life, people,
Form: Narrative