Atomic Reaction
If you could have been
part of the population
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
at ground zero
you would have seen
total annihilation
when the bombs were dropped
(Little Boy and Fat Man)
and if it weren't enough
you should become 'hibakusha'
victims of nuclear fallout radiation
the perpetrators censored the news
and only the survivors
were evidence all war must be stopped
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Categories:
x radiation, america, death, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
You Make Me Smile
You Make Me Smile
the diagnosis came as a shock
life altering-all came to a stop
several surgical scar forming resections
steady course of skin burning radiation
multiple courses of poisonous chemotherapy
grueling grind of gut-wrenching nausea
valleys of deep depression
alternate with hills of happiness
each day another day of life
totally different than the day before
through it all you have
managed to maintain
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Categories:
x radiation, cancer,
Form: Free verse
In the radiation waiting room
the calm here is filled with your presence
i feel your energy come over me
as it lingers in the air i breathe
and paints a warm smile upon my face
i do not feel alone
it's surreal how there is hovering
that's tangible between the two dimensions
meanwhile this still looks much like
a processing plant but feels to me
more like a
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Categories:
x radiation, loss, peace, together,
Form: Free verse
Radiation Waiting Room
Radiation lobby,
filled with unspoken sense.
I see a community of fighters and partners.
The partners are
the curious who know.
They sit using books as blinders,
or sitting watching others.
They are family waiting.
The fighters are strugglers,
arriving with smiles or stone faces.
They are:
slow walkers
fast walkers
chair riders
cane holders,
or with chemo caps,
or cancer wigs.
Travelers
funneling through a journey of hope.
Given by greeters and nurses.
Cancers
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Categories:
x radiation, cancer, caregiving, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
I am a Force of Nature
I visit the bug zapper on Tuesday
much to the radiology teams delight
I named it thus before meeting it formally
my comedic self puts up this type of dust
If you make fun of it enough
it can't cause you pain
it only gets three passes in each refrain
Less than a minute and half on my breast
that's about the time
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Categories:
x radiation, business,
Form: Free verse
Ruptured
Radiation stings sweet
Rivaling the burn of
Razor blades through my soul
Ready to leave a scar
Rupturing the healing
Right before the climax
Reflected in your eyes
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Categories:
x radiation, change, pain,
Form: Pleiades
Tear
a tear in each eye
surviving the bad hair days
my tumor and I
both shrink from radiation
the treatments tear us apart
contrast for the word "tear"
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Categories:
x radiation, 11th grade, cancer,
Form: Tanka
Radiation of Love
sublime heat is the
balmy of your body
always radiating
in me a sun of
love...
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Categories:
x radiation, allegory, allusion, cute love,
Form: Light Verse
Radiation Sickness
Having failed yet another repair, on the leaking rods
I spit my liquified bowels all over the walls
Retching up toxic filth within
an expectoration of black lumpy phlegm
forms a pebbledash of grotesque sin
Some I recognize, some I can’t figure out
but it’s me, spewing cancer is my distinctive subtlety
carries my mark, the mark of a
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Categories:
x radiation, allusion, cancer, hate, racism,
Form: Free verse
Drift
A craft ever afloat
in dark endless doldrums.
The drifting aether-boat,
station of static hum.
Fallout: the lethal moat.
Recov’ry never comes.
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Categories:
x radiation, death, science fiction, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Just Be
I want to be just a woman,
Weak and dependent on her husband.
Life has already started to crack,
And the truth will come out.
I don't want to feel powerless,
I don't want everyone to be offended,
The days began to drag on dreary,
I realized that I had something to lose.
I always look for a spiritual light in people,
And even
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Categories:
x radiation, i am, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sing a Song of Radiation
Oh, let my blood thicken, as in front of my computer
I type.
Who cares if my retinas are being destroyed?
For we are being led down an electronic primrose path
like bleeting sheep to the slaughter.
As EMF waves destroy the brains of our young sons and
our oh, so beloved daughters.
Oh, how we chortle and snicker
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Categories:
x radiation, computer, culture, health,
Form: Rhyme
Cosmic Background Radiation
Oh universe ye tellst to us thy tale,
thy megaphone part of a second old
fills all the vacuum in microwave
throughout the space ye darest to unfold.
So then more time passed than words might describe,
diverted by their dating with the stars
thy low cry was lost "electronics noise",
forgivest the limits of the species!
Fortune by their hunger of publishing
a
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Categories:
x radiation, appreciation, journey, science, space,
Form: Sonnet
Radiation
Radiation they said, could be deadly
if used right, it may save your life
That tumor you have, that's on your left lung
cannot be removed with a knife
They said it is pressed, very close to your heart
with even a "nick" you could die
There's only one option, it has to be nuked
five doses turned up really high
Side effects?
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Categories:
x radiation, cancer, faith, god, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Plank's Radiation Law
Joint configurations of embellishments....
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I said, I thought?
You know, Satan has a way
Of subverting the truth of light
Casting it within the blurry
The obscure and the vague....
Abstract views
Of murkened hue's, at best
Make believe things
That bind within the crucible....
This crusade, of wonderlust souls
Traveling to and fro, and yet
Grounded upon the nowhere?
Marching in unison, this concourse
To the beat, of
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Categories:
x radiation, addiction, age, allusion, love,
Form: I do not know?
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