Short Mushroom Cloud Poems

darker than raindrops
mushroom cloud blooming purple....
I can see my bones...

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Takeover Taiwan

Sino-Russ aims at Ukraine

Edges      burnt      and crisp...

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trench foot ankle deep

fanfares baptize innocence –

bugles sound defeat


30th January 2020...

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Only a fool would
Pyrocumulus mushroom
Nuclear horror



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/war4.php...

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Plutonium in the garden 
Uranium next to my shed.
Mushroom cloud in the making.
One tiny blast, and we’re dead!...

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How I miss you
at night
when the stars
come out to play
the good sleep
and evil wakes
from the enveloping dread
rises a mushroom cloud
to devour us....

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mushroom cloud of war
howling winds with lightning bolts
anger in the clouds
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~*~



haiku/senryu blended hybrid...

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They had run out of vaccine and resigned

Peace spread like a mushroom cloud of goodwill

For the war on mercy there was no pill

In puzzled surrender they quarantined 


10th March 2020...

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Hirosimizing,
Nagasaki impacts,
Atomic bombing pejors.

Scary scabs began,
Debris of recoil doomsday,
Fetus fleets on their way out.

Mushroom cloud embeds,
Tympanic torn by air blast,
This atrocity noted....

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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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Anger
On the surface, eyes closed, hands shaking
Paralyzing, soaking through my pores
Deep inside, welling within me
A rising mushroom cloud of bubbling acid
I feel it coming, but by then it’s to late
A self justified burst of atomic energy
Sweet release, hits like a runaway train
Everyone around me recoiling in fear...

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I saw the mushroom cloud
Far out on the horizon
Tried to ring you
To say goodbye
But the EP
Had already
Killed the phone
I would never make it home
Never ever
Ever
More urgent
Is it to tell
How you feel
About the ones
You care for
.....
.....
.....
Tomorrow may
Not come

As I woke up
It was a beautiful
Sunrise
With birdsong
And morning dew....

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brilliant flash eyes blind 
          split firmament nuclear blast 
             fire ball mushroom cloud
            melting concrete acid rain 
              lucky ones ~ evaporate 
  

 RS-28 Sarmat = Satan II
  Russian nuclear missile
   
Near Death Experience Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke 
How many syllables 5/7/5/7/7
28/04/22...

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My hand strokes the Crystal Ball
I peer, as it fills with Mist
Then appears a Mushroom Cloud
I cannot see where

A child alone and crying
on a filthy run down street
A Military Tyrant
as he shakes his fist

A barren field, void of life
parched, the Earth is deeply cracked
But wait! Through the Mist I see
a Rose stands alone.


For Linda-Maries Crystal Ball contest

Copyright 2011 By Rd. Pickett...

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Fish are belly up so is the burnt-out train.
In a few months
we may have a herd
of two-headed calves.

The Ohio is polluted they say.
Nevertheless here I am in my skiff
letting the current take me down to the Mississippi
or maybe just to Indiana for some lunch.

Not going to fish though.

I light a pipeful of 'Captain Black Regular'
let the smoke rise up
like a mushroom cloud
of love....

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The darkness begins
and truth is sacrificed
for expediency.
Wihout sunlight
lies become the norm.
Tell us the mushroom cloud is coming,
in the dark we will not see
as cackling laughter
echoes down the halls of deceit.
And then, just apologize
drawing the shades ever tighter.
Institutions of corruption
ever saying ... sorry
ever saying ... don't worry
Uncle Sam won't deny
your inalienable right
to sunlight....

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All the Myths are twisted.
 
Merlin warned King Arthur
of the Minotaur.
He had no need of twine-
his War Horse was Pegasus.
 
At the Labyrinth's end his Atomic Spear
pierced the Tauran Eye.
He had no thought of Camelot.
 
White wings lifted him
above the mushroom cloud–
through the purple gates-
to Satans' Den.
 
Merlin sat scowling at the Lady of the Lake -
Excalibur’s sheath had bloomed with
Forget - Me – Nots,
and Merlin's Crystal ball
was shrouded in a Nuclear Winter....

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Tsunami! Caused by a mushroom cloud,
Mommy help me! I heard from the crowd,
People ran here and there,
No shelter to be found anywhere,
Whoever unleashed the bomb did not care,
It caused massive destruction everywhere,
Bombs and Guns are made for strife,
Manufactured and designed to take a life,
It doesn't matter who's strong in might,
Common Sense tells me a fight is a fight,
Say no to violence its the right thing to do,
When you say no to violence it protects me,
It protects you,...

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