Oppenheimer Poems

Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945

...Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945

About fourteen and a half years 
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle  
in the eyes of his then 
young father and mother
the former ...
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Categories: oppenheimer, age, angst, anniversary, august,
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 the...
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Categories: oppenheimer, age, anger, art, beautiful,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberTrinity

...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 chan...
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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, irony, storm,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOppenheimer

...~ 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
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Categories: oppenheimer, world war ii,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberIf 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 Hu...
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Categories: oppenheimer, conflict, crazy, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberPedagogy

...Consider the practice of pedagogy.
Sounds less like a noble profession,
And more like a pervert’s kinky fetish,
A groomer’s form of fieldcraft.
Socrates taught Plato,
Just as Shumann mentored Br...
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Categories: oppenheimer, allegory, angst, education, student,
Form: Verse

Premium Memberthe collective hubris of our indifference to ants

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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 rac...
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Categories: oppenheimer, anxiety, appreciation, mirror,
Form: Free verse

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 unleash...
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Categories: oppenheimer, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeath By Oppenheimer

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For knowledge and wisdom, I glean
     geometry, physics, science,
philosophy, and tomes umpteen!
     In search of shrewd intelligence,
I forsake college's campus scene;
     and pursue rhy...
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Categories: oppenheimer, allusion, art, death, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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...
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Categories: oppenheimer, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,
Form: Free verse

So What Will We Do Today

...see the way i drag yooooooou into
my more bid drizzles
As if to share a secret
I twist ?? words
leather bands entwined
mask ornate hide rancid
of thoughts-of thoughts-of thoughts-of thoughts
w...
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Categories: oppenheimer, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeyond 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...
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Categories: oppenheimer, dream,
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" cod...
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Categories: oppenheimer, america, anger, death, evil,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberOppenheimer Betrayal

...All his dreams shattered
        So began the nightmare to
               pick up the atoms


By
David Kavanagh...
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Categories: oppenheimer, allusion, analogy, death, depression,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberMy 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...
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Categories: oppenheimer, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

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