Short Hiroshima Poems

Oh Miyajima
Where cherry blossoms fall
By the floating gate...

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for Hiroshima
    The Peace Tower tolls today

            ears ring eternal




***...

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all is as should be

     throbbing cicada drumbeat

           Hiroshima dreams


    12/5/2018...

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Mission accomplished 
         I cannot see the city 
         Just black boiling tar

By
David Kavanagh...

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Mushroom
cloud plume of doom
rose from Hiroshima,
6 August, 1945,
Omen


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25 July 2017...

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Japan now our friend  
Unlike 1945 
Prayers keep Hope alive 

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Contest: Tribute to Japan
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi...

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Shadows only remain
Where life stood its ground
Far above their air
Its devastation burned down

(To all those who have lost from war...)...

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The chirping evokes
the poetry of Princess
Shikishi, who logged
deatails in tanka of the 
world and its soul as
Enola Gay logged shadows
on walls in Hiroshima...

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The black bird is in the skies,
Aiming down with dreadful eyes.
Drops its egg from very high,
Soon Hiroshima will die.
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Date - 2/1/2017...

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STRESSED
CAN'T
DRINK
CAN'T
DANCE
CAN'T
SING
REMEMBERING
MO
AMOUR
AND
HIROSHIMA
STILL
LEAVES
POND
FORMING
SLOW
MOTION
HANDS
WHITE
PEARLY
PALMS
LIPS
DREAMING
HAUSAN...

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Under a clear blue sky 
The old city 
That once lay in ruins 
Is now flourishing with life, 
A Phoenix risen from the ashes. 

         W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018....

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the horror of war

 devastating mushroom cloud

          over Hiroshima


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Contest: Haiku "aha" Moment
Sponsor: Regina Riddle
Placing: 1st
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CIGARETTE    IN    HIROSHIMA


Press of a darkened  switch
In a flash it was all over
Ignition of the lethal load
Surge of heat
Trembling with anticipation
Red hot glow afterwards
The familiar cloud of smoke
And just a trace of ash...

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a motionless pond

reflects an unblemished sky 

where war once swallowed the sun -

blossoms drift like tears

skimming over ancient wounds

while doves fly against the wind




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For Brian Strand's Contest: #218...

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I went to Hiroshima to see the faded glass shadows of the sun

I saw the crystal waters of the seashore, and the air as clean as rain

The trees were small, the flowers were large, children having fun

The land the same, the people changed, pure smiles instead of pain....

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Where will I be when your light is snuffed from my life?
When you no longer breathe the air I breathe, and I continue unknowing
chopping onions, typing letters, self-aggrandizing
Not knowing that like a Hiroshima survivor
I am the walking dead
my atomic clock ticking down...

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meanness
cruel actions
human history
this being our legacy
before being submerged in our own heart-waste
what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Buchenwald
Dachau, Belzec, Chelmno, Warsaw, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen?
No more war....

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We must take courage to look at, can, 
That dirge and the tragedy of Hiroshima, 
To conclude and rationalise if we can, 
That throbbing, deathly, vile panorama.

We did it, we conceived of it, 
We intentioned that statement said, 
So let that blood statement ourselves hit, 
And blossom in purple and red....

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This will be a false Haiku
because I don't have time 
to finish up

Xmas tree obliges

Anyhow 
why not write Neo-Grunge
jazzmataz music song poeme
In a rather quickie style

let's finish here,
 I only have 12 minutes
precisely:

 dirty clean grandpa
souping through the night
Plop! Hiroshima bloat...

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bone like trees line streets of Hiroshima
sentinels, scratching the sky,
winter clipped memories ...

life from death arose
springing eternally up
rooting ever down
often bubbling forth from ruins
shadowing the beggar’s bride

who spits on the graves
but mad men dance and war on
bone tree remind us


*kimo, tanka, senryu...

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Their police boots
Bark like a bull-dog
Near the Sharpeville sea 
Of men’s blood;

Their guns boom
Like the Hiroshima bombs
Which for years
Remain the bane of men;

When they saw me 
Passing through the street
They buried their faces
Of shame and humiliation –

Our once beautiful land is calmed again
Thru’ the violence of the red-hands....

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Destruction falling
See baby doctor at ten...
Little boy coming

Not to make light of dropping an atomic bomb, but when one stops and thinks of all the 
normal every day things going through the minds of those people while Little Boy is falling, at 
8:15  am, It is really sad.  Something like 140,000 died instantly. Charles

©  Sep 24 2010      Charles Henderson...

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Permanently nuclear heads
psychosis; sightless
Heads
Plant of the haters
Insanity this race
We; any race
Commonly we repatriate
The rays of the sun
For what
Radiation
Ruining our earth
Reproduction of what
The death
and the death
The winner who
only dust
A weapon of no winner

No buds
Only! only ash!
Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Who is Replaying that?
Kids with heads; 
Nuclear
Who are playing
deadly game of men!...

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Six years after the atomic bomb
Plunked down in Hiroshima 
Tearing people into pieces
Dali was still losing sleep over it

He begins to collect strips and struts
Developing a surreal idea of what he is about
Collects arrowheads, wire, bits of bone.
Defers from his usual style

Puts together Raphaelesque Head Exploding
A tiny canvas with a large message
Showing his disdain for atomic bombs
And the barbaric aftermaths...

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I toss and turn
in tumultuous waves
craving your darkest fantasies
will soon explode around me.

You are beautiful
much like demolition
painted nails that leave
unfettered wounds.

I call for you
in my slaughtered nights
searching the room
for your touch.

We have become
spontaneous perfection
I face annihilation
waiting for you.

Atomized and negated
I need you
it's You I see
all that I see.

We are
the Hiroshima
of love......

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