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Premium Member 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 the World dreads
The catch releases as...

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Categories: oppenheimer, america, angst, death, judgement, pain, people, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member 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 the world dreads
The catch releases as Little...

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Categories: oppenheimer, city, day, death, forgiveness, history, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
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 unleashing atomic warfare
synonymous with the ways and means
to annihilate, decimate,...

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Categories: oppenheimer, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august, dark, death, earth,
Form: Free verse
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 of cotton candy clouds

she relieves herself into Magritte’s...

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Categories: oppenheimer, dream,
Form: Free verse
Wasteland
Like the dead fossils of the once tyrannic dinosaurs laid bare into the diminishing soils of the earth, is what the aging world appears to seem like, the battle for survival pride and honour from...

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Categories: oppenheimer, age, anger, art, beautiful, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Extinction - the Oppenheimer Effect
In the time of the dead                             ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppenheimer, age, christian, irony, natural disasters, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945
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...

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Categories: oppenheimer, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict, cry, death, fate,
Form: Free verse
Hiroshima N Nagasaki Seventy Five Years Since 1945
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...

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Categories: oppenheimer, america, anger, death, evil, grave, history, planet,
Form: Political Verse
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 

for a uranium gun-type atomic 
bomb dropped at 0815
exploding 580 metres...

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Categories: oppenheimer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, death,
Form: Dramatic 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 race
anthills never knew Oppenheimer 
We show no...

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Categories: oppenheimer, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
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 Hubbard's cupboard...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: oppenheimer, conflict, crazy, fun, humorous, visionary, women,
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 leaps it enlarged,...

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Categories: oppenheimer, allusion, faith, inspiration, love, science,
Form: Free verse
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 in our natal fount or

with mastery of the universe poised

at...

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Categories: oppenheimer, angst, death, earth, hyperbole, life, philosophy,
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 12)

“ When...

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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, america, earth, war,
Form: Haiku
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 by the human race.
Lit by the glory of our loving...

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Categories: oppenheimer, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
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 changed within...

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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, irony, storm,
Form: Sonnet
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
and know its secrets...

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Categories: oppenheimer, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet

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