Dark Nuclear Poems

Slowly drifting on a billowing cloud 
the languid liquids drench the underbelly
of the moons ethereal glow. 
The dreamscape transitions from 
dark to light.
Shockwaves shiver and...

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this death will be the life of me
patches in the sky
we used to call them clouds
before the bombs went off
and canopied us in a toxic...

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A nuclear war wished for

There is among the youth of the West an ingrained boredom
a hidden wish to swipe away from the old world they...

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The Limerick, Pennsylvania Nuclear power plant siren wailed

yesterday at 1400 hours December the fourth
and probably broadcast further
east, west, south and north.

That shrill ear-piercing
emitted sound quite...

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the nuclear snakes
   slither into disaster
warheads waiting 
   in the dithering wings

~~~!~~~X~~~#~~~>>>

light explodes
darkness erupts
fiery projectiles 
  obliterate without mercy



the reptilian...

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CHILDREN of the NUCLEAR AGE (version 2) 
words by David A.P. 
 
(verse 1) 
Three angels were floating in the sky, 
screaming with their wings...

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She rubbed him up the right way,
made him moo like an oboe,
piped him up high like a piccolo.
She was finger food for his body.

Post the...

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Nuclear war

If there’s a nuclear war, please let me know
I’ll give the house a dust and let the parrot go
If there’s a nuclear war, I’ll...

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I walked out the door I stepped out into my porch I looked around all around me and I said to myself   Where...

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Atomic payback made impact dramatically 
Physics split minute energy into mammoth 
Allied forces warned Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Destroyer of worlds, Now I become death

Military master, Japan, thought...

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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...

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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...

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blinding light 
rolling thunder 
fires from the gates of hell...

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The sky is dark, 
              birds once flown  have gone forever...

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