Hiroshima Poems - Poems about Hiroshima

The Eastern window is open and early morning birds sounds invade the room. Drawn blinds are no defense as one after the other the inevitable rays of light sneak in around each shimmering slat. At 5 o'clock. The sun hangs like a red ball in the middle of the white horizon, a flaming standard. The steam clings softly to the bathroom mirror and like misty, glorified remembrances masks the...

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Do not produce children telepathic hypochondriac... don't transform girls in symptomatic blind don't do women changed functions think of the wounds Like splenic roses But oh don't forget the rose of the rose From the rose of Hiroshima the perpetual rose the radioactive rose monstrous and stupid The hepatic rose with cirrhosis The anti rose, atomic discolored and unperfumed Sans rose sans nothing... ! PS Interactive...

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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 unleashing atomic warfare synonymous with the ways and means to annihilate, decimate, eliminate, et cetera avast swath of the biosphere, nevertheless... Once again, I take momentary pause to contemplate horrific event regarding unleashed atomic warfare activating nuclear...

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All the lives did dwell in town, Laughed and grew they all, Then , Sun rose from land and covered the sand, With a bloody pall. The second sun came from the west, Out on the land came he, Coloured in the hue of mortal blood, It wreaked the sorrow's sea! No one shouted , cried, moved or ran! In air vanished everyone, Instead of...

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Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945 Once again, I take momentary pause to contemplate horrific event regarding unleashing atomic warfare activating nuclear brinkmanship, hence time to trot out a poem written initially some years ago courtesy yours truly. Robert Oppenheimer manned "The Manhattan Project",  a top secret World War II mission                    which constituted "Little Boy" codename for a uranium gun-type atomic...

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Mission accomplished I cannot see the city Just black boiling tar By David Kavanagh...

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Hiroshima n Nagasaki – Seventy Five Years Since 1945 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 with 15 kiloton blast yield reduced 400 year old city to dust Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot/ bombardier...

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Hiroshima Poems 2 I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide. -Michael R. Burch, "Epitaph for a Child of Hiroshima" The intense heat and light of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts left behind ghostly silhouettes of human beings whose lives were erased in an instant: Hiroshima Shadows by...

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Hiroshima Poems I Let Us Be Midwives! by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Midnight... the basement of a shattered building... atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness... not a single candle between them... the odor of blood... the stench of death... the sickly-sweet smell of decaying humanity... the groans... the moans... Out of all that, suddenly, miraculously, a voice: "The baby's coming!" In the hellish...

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Oh Miyajima Where cherry blossoms fall By the floating gate...

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Lucifer, To The Enola Gay by Michael R. Burch Go then, and give them my meaning so that their teeming streets become my city. Bring back a pretty flower— a chrysanthemum, perhaps, to bloom if but an hour, within a certain room of mine where the sun does not rise or fall, and the moon, although it is content to shine, helps nothing at all. There, if I...

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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 city to dust Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot/ bombardier of the...

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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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CIGARETTE IN HIROSHIMA Press of a darkened switch In a flash it was all over Ignition of the lethal load Surge of heat Trembling with anticipation Red hot glow afterwards The familiar cloud of smoke And just a trace of ash...

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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 lips, The taste of your stare. I did not know the...

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