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Nagasaki Poems - Poems about Nagasaki


NAGASAKI
Nagasaki There are nights when things become clear  when the Pacific Ocean lived up to its name  I sat on deck, listened to the heartbeat of the vessel, which ticked faster when an engineer  opened a door and came out on the deck Laughter in the mess hall, no, I was not at ease in their company, too old at sixty I have...

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Categories: nagasaki, age, art, assonance,
Form: ABC
Premium Member People of Nagasaki
people of Nagasaki were living comfortable lives most did not know what the giant bubble meant august 9th, 1945 many did not take cover not that cover would have done them a bit of good some were fascinated at first, wondering what it was not understanding it was the end of their world an atom bomb dropped on many innocents civilians...

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Categories: nagasaki, war,
Form: Free verse



Kiloton Burst
Hirosimizing, Nagasaki impacts, Atomic bombing pejors. Scary scabs began, Debris of recoil doomsday, Fetus fleets on their way out. Mushroom cloud embeds, Tympanic torn by air blast, This atrocity noted....

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Categories: nagasaki, assonance, emotions, war,
Form: Sedoka
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 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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Categories: nagasaki, america, anger, death, evil,
Form: Political Verse
Hiroshima Poems 2
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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Categories: nagasaki, bereavement, conflict, eulogy, horror,
Form: Verse



Hiroshima Poems I
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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Categories: nagasaki, child, children, eulogy, father,
Form: 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 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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Categories: nagasaki, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Nagasaki
There is strength there is power. “Mommy, look at this lovely flower!” There is war and there is strife. “C’mon lets go fly a kite!” There is guns and there is knives. “Look at my kite rise and rise!” There are warlords there are tyrants. “Hey Jo, can you hold the call on those Clients?” There are...

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Categories: nagasaki, death, remember, world war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Shadows only remain Where life stood its ground Far above their air Its devastation burned down (To all those who have lost from war...)...

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Categories: nagasaki, memorial day, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nagasaki
Heaven above Mystery below Fat Man Speaks Approximately 60,000 people died instantly on the morning Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. This is to remember them. Not to make a statement of opinion. © Feb 21 2010 Charles Henderson...

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Categories: nagasaki, loss
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Hiroshima Nagasaki 2
( Lyrics by Queen ) Teo torriatte konomama iko Aisuruhito yo Shizukana yoi ni, Hikario tomoshi Itoshiki oshieo idaki Let us cling together as the years go by Oh my love, my love ...

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Categories: nagasaki, death, forgiveness, history, life,
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 Boy goes Are they really enemies, are they really foes As he lands without a sound As he plummets into Japanese ground As he...

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Categories: nagasaki, city, day, death, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme

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