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Subject: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
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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