Nuclear Poems

Nuclear War

The alpha males 
stand at the precipice of power 
each attempting to prove 
They are the greatest 

Resting on the backs of stupidity 
a nuclear war 
one percent chance 
of total annihilation 

of life on the planet 
As we destroy 
our ecological systems 
ninety-nine percent 

of the world dying 
from nuclear radiation 
and the direct

A Nuclear Future

  
   The specter of nuclear war haunts the world again
      not long after we all thought it might end

   As agreements of Reagan and Gorbachev are trashed
      the angst of Krushchev and Kennedy streams past…

   Today, Iran

Nuclear Nest

nuclear nest destroyed- a second holocaust avoided

THE SUPREME LEADER

A gentle man of peace who greatly respects human life
Has faced the difficult decision he must stand and fight,
Well within his Powers to end a terrorist world-wide strife.
He didn’t start the conflicts or wild and fiery contagion
But he finished it quickly, with no reserve or consternation.

An evil regime leader challenged him with threats and lies,
With

A Drop

On June 21, 2025 U.S. military made strikes against three nuclear facilities in Iran called Operation Midnight Hammer.

Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan
No longer places in Iran
And gone at once atomic clamor
It took a drop of "Midnight Hammer"

Jun 22, 2025

A Crossroads for Iran

When missiles fly
The Mullahs lie
They bide their time
To turn the tide

Their constant bluster
Now short of luster
For why we ask
No God sent task

To build a bomb
With feigned aplomb
Their word to spread
Among the dead

They have their place
To find God's grace
Not trample lives
Like stinging hives

Fear and temerity
No road to prosperity
But that's what they seek
Control of the meek

A proud

Mushroom In Bloom

                                      our home grown monarch
             

Bikini

1946 United States authorities
chose to exercise freedom of choice
and forcibly relocated 167 Marshall islanders
King Juda he agreed as their voice
from Bikini Atoll east to Rongerik
a small island which adequate resources lacked
with the promise they would return
so much for the U.S. Right of Freedom Act
and with little regard to radiation or fallout
the beautiful coral lagoon's sad

Nuclear Nemesis : The Golden Dome

Written By:  D. Collins 5/29/25


With no magnetic field nor atmosphere.
Wouldn't radiation rain down everywhere?
What physics are involved with explosions in space?
And what would be the outcome of the human race?


Would it completely throw our moon out of whack?
Causing major tsunamis or have they thought about that?
I'm no genius but I have simple common sense.
Explosions

War Between Nuclear Powers

When silence breaks with a siren's cry,
And ash clouds darken the morning sky,
Two nations rise with wrathful might,
Blind to peace, prepared to fight.

Where rivers flowed through fields so wide,
Now burn with rage on either side.
Flags once fluttered in monsoon air,
Now mark the graves of young laid bare.

The tanks roll in, the bombers fly,
The missiles arc

First Underground Nuclear Kitchen

Hey buddy, let me tell you what's goin' down.
Listen closely, you'll hear the sound
of my kitchen, underground.

What I'm cookin' is so hot, as it were,
you might call it nuclear.
I'll make some for him, some for her.

I churn out the grub, hot and fast.
My cooking's like a firehose blast.
As much as I make, it won't last.

I

Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined

We sat in the fallout 
of last year’s gift exchange—
smashed angel centerpiece 
taped back together 
as good as a rogue bomb 
if someone mentioned it.

Our voices dragged
like anchors through an ocean—
low, cold, summoning something
older than Kris Kringle.
I strained to recall
a time when it wasn’t like this.

The kitchen table—
a battleship, whipped tension
and potatoes. Dad’s knife slipped

The Fallout from Dyslexia and Nuclear War

for my entire life
I've always been on the brink
of annihilation

under a wooden desk
covering porcelain neck
the unforgiving sirens

a nuclear child
petrified of being exposed
to the fallout

seven years of age
stressed out by the alphabet
thoroughly dyslexic

Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation

“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch

Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games which now threaten to leave us
merely meaningless footnotes?

Someone’s alleged “right” to strike first
might annihilate a beleaguered nation
whose people march to a martinet’s tune,
compelled to pageants of orchestrated obedience.
Why?

Nuclear Warfare

Nuclear warfare?... 

Nuclear warfare,
the storm's on the brink,
How will it happen?
Where will you sink?
When the tidal wave of war crashes from the sea,
What’s the first thought?
Kids and my partner, gotta be. 

Holdin' hands as we vanish in the mist,
End the war,
nuclear warheads,
clenched fists.
UK next,
for aiding Ukraine’s fight,
Keir Starmer’s lies,
truth in the night. 

Are we blind,
do

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