Robert 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: robert oppenheimer, age, angst, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse

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...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: robert oppenheimer, allegory, irony, storm,
Form: Sonnet


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: robert oppenheimer, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,
Form: Free verse

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: robert oppenheimer, abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,
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: robert oppenheimer, america, anger, death, evil,
Form: Political 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 

f...
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Categories: robert oppenheimer, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Trinity Test

...TRINITY TEST

“If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme splendor of the Lord”(Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 1...
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Categories: robert oppenheimer, allegory, america, earth, war,
Form: Haiku
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