Death Nuclear Poems

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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Repulsive rodents 
Roaming razed Russian ruins 
Post-nuclear war 
Hollowing our heritage 
Scarring our soiled Slavic state...

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Time will never wait
Since it hears no pleads at all
But time is sure to stop
The day when darkness crawls

Time is sure to stop
When every man...

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Hate is circling like a starving vulture over the heads of the innocent 

Waiting for the war to unleash its accumulated wrath of destruction 

Providing...

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each one with their death 
because nothing tells me about you 
the voice that inflects 
or tells me about you the look you have 
and...

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I see a Neon Lady,
green rain from the clouds.
Yet she is pure evil,
this engraved upon her crown.
Six hundred million people,
into dust on scorched ground.
I see...

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They taught us what to do if there's a bomb.
A big bomb.
A bomb they removed in a biopsy on a God
A big God
Scooped it out...

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Uncomfortable Truths About Wars

Lethal Thermobaric Bombs
Also known as vacuum bombs
Sucking the oxygen out of the air
For many miles. Nuclear and cluster bombs
And the worst of...

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Everyone agrees that war is cruel
Everyone agrees that war is suicidal
Everyone agrees that war brings mortar, anger
Hunger, pain, suffering, death, horror and terror
But a nuclear...

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Every now and again we go nuclear
Two archaeologists dusting off the past
Hurting with words as sharp as swords
It’s all over for twenty-minutes, dead.
Then the air...

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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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We harnessed the power of the sun
Created cells and life from nothing
Cloned and duplicated
The work of the Gods

Holding fire
And life
And death
In the palm of our...

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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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Milestones Toward Oblivion
by Michael R. Burch

A milestone here leans heavily
against a gaunt, golemic tree.
These words are chiseled thereupon:
"One mile and then Oblivion."

Swift larks that once...

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