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| Searching... Subject: ATOMIC BOMB Matches Found: 51 A RENUNCIATION OF THE DESERT PRIMROSE; FOR J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of the black and white photograph Last Line: I have fallen behind... Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967); Regret; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ADVICE TO A PROPHET, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you come, as you soon must, to the streets of our city Last Line: When the bronze annals of the oak-tree close. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Christianity; Environment; Judgment Day; Messiah; Nuclear War; Religion; Sea Monsters; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Theology; S AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did such terrible events / catch my eye Last Line: Of contained passion? Variant Title(s): Fires In Childhood Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb ANAGRAM BORN OF MADNESS AT CZERNOWITZ, 12 NOVEMBER 1920, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were the strong nudes of a forgotten Last Line: "hold on to me and we'll sing." Subject(s): Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Czernowitz (chernvits), Romania; Korean War, 1950-1953; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb AT THE BOMB TESTING SITE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon in the desert a panting lizard Last Line: The hands gripped hard on the desert. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Desserts; Nuclear Freeze 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 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 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 BURSTING RAPTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the physician to complain, Last Line: That’s what a certain bomb was sent to be Subject(s): Farm Life; Atomic Bomb; Agriculture; Farmers CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh Last Line: And tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb 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 FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poet's Biography First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Last Line: They join our general incest of dust or fire Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valley Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb GATHERED AT THE RIVER; FOR BEATRICE HAWLEY AND JOHN JAGEL, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text 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 HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brought low in kyoto Last Line: The enemies of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Radiation & Radiation Sickness; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America LAND OF LITTLE STICKS, 1945, by JAMES TATE Poem Text 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 LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LOS ALAMOS NUCLEAR LAB, by CATHARINE P. MAZE Poem Source First Line: South from the splendor %that is yellowstone Last Line: Nuclear %lab Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing 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 NEAR THE DESERT TEST SITES (PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA), by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike almost everything Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing NEVADA NUCLEAR TEST SITE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: There is no manger anymore Last Line: And all above in the white storm's eye, %no place to be born, no place to die Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing PLUTONIAN ODE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What new element before us unborn in nature? Last Line: Space, so ah! Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text 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 POSTCARD OF ATOMIC BOMB TEST, YUCCA FLAT, 1953, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: Say there is an explosion so great it shakes off Last Line: You tell yourself, only a test Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing PRO-NUKE BLUES, by ALAN DUGAN Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SIMULTANEOUSLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simultaneously, five thousand miles apart Last Line: Sprouting leaves. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb SMOKE, by HUGH STEINBERG Poem Source First Line: Upon visiting the site of the bravo shot Last Line: The world was still there %after he had left it behind him Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing SPRING SNOW, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Text 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 TERMINAL COLLOQUY, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where will you go when the blinding flash Last Line: Nothing, after the blinding flash. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE BATH: AUGUST 6, 1945, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text 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'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 GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were talking about poetry Last Line: Preparing to open the door. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Poetry & Poets; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE GARDEN SHUKKEI-EN, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river Last Line: It is the bell to awaken god that we've heard ringing Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THE HORSE, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text 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'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 THE SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TIME OF THE MISSILE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TRYING TO TALK WITH A MAN, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in this desert we are testing bombs Last Line: As if we were testing anything else. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Atomic Bomb - Testing; Men; Nuclear Freeze TWELVE O'CLOCK, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text 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 VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: —spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VERTICAL OR HOW HALVED GOURDS GLAZED WITH RAIN WATER REFLECT ATOMIC..., by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's one of those blistering desert days Subject(s): Nuclear War; Soldiers; War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WAHSAH, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Text First Line: Then old man spoke to the people Last Line: We must answer: no!!!! Variant Title(s): Wahsah Zeh (war Dance) - As Long As The Grass Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WATCHING 'DARK CIRCLE', by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men are willing to observe Last Line: And ruth landy of the independent documentary group. Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Testing; Christianity; Motion Pictures, Documentary; Religion; Theology WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder now only when it will happen Last Line: It will look so beautiful. Subject(s): Amputees; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will be strange Last Line: We are dying. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Vacation; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb |
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