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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 6-AUG, by BRUCE SPANG Poem Source First Line: The sky ripped open Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War APOCALYPSE, by KIHARA KOICHI Poem Source First Line: In 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, among Last Line: They march the burnt-out fields Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ATOMIC DAWN, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day I first climbed mt. St. Helens was august 13, 1945. Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Atomic Bomb - Victoms; Hiroshima, Japan FROM INSTANT CHRONICLES: A LIFE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In a night-club in hiroshima Last Line: Until which time we make our unfresh starts %and share our instant chronicles. It's your turn now Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Night Clubs 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 GATHERING BLACKBERRIES: AUG. 6, 1988, FORESTVILLE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I wish I could spend three days grieving Last Line: One blackberry for each thousand [a-bomb] deaths Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Grief; Hiroshima, Japan 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 HOME FROM HIROSHIMA, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By decree %of the president of the united states Last Line: The wild west wreck the world Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Peace; Vengeance 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 LIVING BY I-5, AUGUST 6, 1995, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: No, not the 100,000 year-old ice dam Last Line: Each car has an aura of blue flame Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Fire; Graves; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Radiation And Radiation Sickness LOUD JAZZ HORNS, by CARTER WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: Blow, blow, blow! Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan NINETEEN-FORTY FIVE, by DAVID MELTZER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our father's skin Last Line: A rare comb Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Nuclear War; World War Ii ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 1, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: The bomb Last Line: Spotlight pans their exodus and as the last person leaves, the stage blackens. %exit all Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War ON THE BORDERS OF HIROSHIMA I HEARD A RUMOR OF WAR: 2, by CRANSTON SEDRICK KNIGHT Poem Source First Line: Occidental %sailing out of the west Last Line: Others, there will be beauty in the name hirshima Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors SUNFLOWERS, by JOHN F. DEANE Poem Source First Line: Earth-coloured people, potato eaters Last Line: Hiroshima, nagasaki, %earth-coloured people, who tried to cry Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Hiroshima, Japan 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 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 THE LOS ALAMOS MUSEUM, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this museum is a replica of little boy and fat man. In Last Line: Speed of light, but you can see it here in slow motion. Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Museums; Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Art Gallerys; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I've come to read a poem Last Line: And everything, forever, everything is changed. Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976); Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Parents; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; World War Ii; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Parenthood; Feminism; Second World War VISION OF HIROSHIMA, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: Launched over the triple city a unique projectile Last Line: And what shall we do with all the ashes? Subject(s): Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War WELCOME TO HIROSHIMA, by MARY JO SALTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is what you first see, stepping off the train Last Line: Worked its filthy way out like a tongue. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Hiroshima, Japan; Literary Form; World War Ii; Nuclear Freeze; Second World War |
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