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Subject: ATOMIC BOMB - VICTIMS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ATOM BOMB, by DORY LEVISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can it then be that all the world is mad and
Last Line: If the oil was theirs, or ours, or cheaper
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims


ATOMIC NOTEBOOK, by ALLISON K. COBB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flames break out near town
Last Line: To a virgin mother with reinforced toe
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims


ATOMIC WEIGHT OF DUSK, by GEORGE KALAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A richshaw wallah in benares eats tangerine
Last Line: Offers you sparks of light in a garland of marigolds
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Dusk


ETERNAL RECURRENCE AND THE BIG BANG, by BRUCE BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: An accident waiting to happen
Last Line: Again
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims


FASHION STATEMENT, by JEFFERY DONALDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now for the first prize! Laura's attired
Last Line: And the creator's original design
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Fashion


GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if the trees were not indifferent
Last Line: No pollen.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nagasaki, Japan; Nature; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


HIROSHIMA, by SACHCHIDANANDA HIRANANDA VATSYAYASNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this day, the sun
Last Line: Man's witness to himself
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan


LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the wife is scouring the frying pan
Last Line: Against his forearm, leaning up against the barn.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


MAY DAY 1986, by KIM MATTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything on the outside is the same this morning. On the outskirts of kiev
Last Line: Into day and I have forgotten everything. The air is blue: stalks of poison
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Kiev, Ukraine


SPRING SNOW, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spring snow coincides with plum blossoms
Last Line: In memory people outline bodies on walls.
Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bathing the summer night
Last Line: And to take hold.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Peace; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Social Protest; Survival; War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


THE FUNDAMENTAL PROJECT OF TECHNOLOGY, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under glass: glass dishes which changed
Last Line: To look back and say, a flash, a white flash sparkled.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Judgment Day; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They spoke of the horse alive
Last Line: Their bones in one mad dance.
Subject(s): Animals; Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Victims; Hiroshima, Japan; Horses; Nuclear Freeze