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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NUCLEAR WAR Matches Found: 114 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: When the dusk comes I feel as if it is sweeping Subject(s): Nuclear War 19-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: A strange calm comes over with the clouds Subject(s): Nuclear War 2-AUG, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The acid smell of my body, the propped Subject(s): Nuclear War 28-JUL, by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: The seventeen selves emerge, bent, like locusts Subject(s): Nuclear War 6-AUG, by BRUCE SPANG Poem Source First Line: The sky ripped open Subject(s): Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War 8/24 (THE FARMHOUSE FINALLY SPEAKS), by JOHN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: There is a woman dying inside of me. Her delirious Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE THE ATOMIC BOMB, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did such terrible events %catch my eye Variant Title(s): Fires In Childhoo Subject(s): Nuclear War AFGHANI NOMAD COAT (PART V), by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lawn is set for vacation Subject(s): Nuclear War AFTER TU FU (A.D. 713-770), by EDWIN ROLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The innocents were condemned to death in the hall of justice Last Line: Dig deep again in the great caves of the east %again our wise men talk in the hall of peace Alternate Author Name(s): Fishman, Solomon Subject(s): Nuclear War AMERICAN, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: He stands bent before negation Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War AMERICAN SPRING, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK Poem Source First Line: To wonder, in an age of innocence Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 ANTI-ELEGY FROM HOUSTON, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND Poem Source First Line: Simmons, you crazy grape Subject(s): 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 ATLAS OF OREGON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a day of horizontal rain Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Nuclear War ATOM-BOMB, by PATRICIA CLARE LAMB Poem Source First Line: I want to detonate your calm, my dear Subject(s): Nuclear War BLOW JOB, by ARLENE STONE Poem Source First Line: They told us radiation was Subject(s): Nuclear War BOMBSHELTER, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: First, the metagon flashbulb, stronger Last Line: Through mushroom clouds %to someplace we couldn't name Subject(s): Bombs; Nuclear War BRAND LOYALTY, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: In the two-minute tv spot Subject(s): Nuclear War BREAKFAST TABLE, AUGUST 5, 1945, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: We can imagine the table, can see Subject(s): Nuclear War CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 COUNTDOWN, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Twenty rods deep in the ground Subject(s): Nuclear War DESERT, by CLIFFORD DYMENT Poem Source First Line: Beside a dune high as a tree Subject(s): Nuclear War DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb DIRGE FOR THE NEW SUNRISE, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to my heart as ixion to the wheel Last Line: As if in love - there was no more living then, %and no more love. Gone is the heart of man Subject(s): Nuclear War DISTRUST OF LOGIC, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was after his skull lodged down Subject(s): Nuclear War DOCTRINE OF CATEGORIES, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: The wet bush %shining in front of the window Subject(s): Nuclear War DOOMSDAY, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Conceivable, after all %if not plausible Subject(s): Judgment Day; Nuclear War DRIVE TO LONE RANGER, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: For listening and instructional purposes Last Line: The force that placed us here %cannot be trusted Subject(s): Nuclear War DYING, by TOGE SANKICHI Poem Source First Line: ! %loud in my ear: screams Last Line: Die %? Subject(s): Nuclear War EMPTY HOUSE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: Woe, the wet spot in the kitchen Subject(s): Nuclear War FALLING INTO SAND, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Yearning rests in the sea Last Line: Or change books into nipples Subject(s): Nuclear War; Sex FIFTIES, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of concrete caves Subject(s): Nuclear War FIRE SALE (EVERYTHING MUST GO), by ERIC DARTON Poem Source First Line: Rider in the red field Subject(s): Nuclear War FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poet Analysis 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 FROM A STORY IN THE NEW YORK SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL SECTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the french monks stole the bones Variant Title(s): On A Travel Story From Wormwood Valle Subject(s): New York Times (newspaper); Nuclear War 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 GLITTERING FRAGMENTS, by HARA TAMIKI Poem Source First Line: Glittering fragments %ashen embers Last Line: The smell of smouldering electric wires Subject(s): Nuclear War HELL MURAL: PANEL 2, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Iri and toshi maruki are painting the bomb Last Line: In iri and toshi maruki's painting, the bomb %is hiroshima, nagasaki, belsen, dachau, and vietnam Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War HOW TO SURVIVE NUCLEAR WAR; AFTER READING IBUSE'S 'BLACK RAIN', by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? %we bomb them! Last Line: Whom bomb? %you bomb you! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States IN THE FIRE, A TELEGRAPH POLE, by HARA TAMIKI Poem Source Last Line: A telegraph pole, like a stamen Subject(s): Nuclear War IN THE MEANTIME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord of loaves and fishes Last Line: I am become death -- the destroyer of worlds Subject(s): Bible; Death; Nuclear War; Religion; Social Protest INJUNCTION, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: Brought to trial, she has agreed Subject(s): Nuclear War JORNADA DEL MUERTO, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: The phyicists have known Last Line: A knowledge which they cannot lose Subject(s): Nuclear War; Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967) JOURNAL ENTRIES WRITTEN BY LIGHT THROUGH A PRINCETON, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Autumn, here, is always a tug at the gut Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 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 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 MODERN ROMANCE, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: We split %an atom Last Line: Our hearts %away again Subject(s): Nuclear War MOSQUITOES, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first the hum through sagging leaves Subject(s): Nuclear War MULTIPLE CHOICE, by JOHN FEKNER Poem Source First Line: Organized crime illegally dumps toxic waste Subject(s): Nuclear War NAP, by DAVID WYATT Poem Source First Line: Slammed door, gunshot, a sawing Subject(s): Nuclear War NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel 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 NORTH: 1991, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In the euphoria that followed Last Line: Of saws, the rise and fall, %a crackling in the hard wood Subject(s): Air Warfare; News; Nuclear War; United States NOTE SLID UNDER THE DOOR, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some people don't know this Subject(s): Nuclear War NUCLEAR MADNESS, by MICHAEL CASTRO Poem Source First Line: I live under %the shadow of the bomb Subject(s): Nuclear War NUCLEAR SUBMARINE, by TULI KUPFERBERG Poem Source First Line: In the land where a-bombs were born Subject(s): Nuclear War NUCLEAR UMBRELLA, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: Travelers perhaps, %but I am not sure of finding Last Line: We have missed the only train that could escape the explosion Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 ON THE EVE OF THEIR MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The body would open its legs like a book Last Line: Though never in the wake of its flensing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Variant Title(s): On The Eve Of Our Mutually Assured Destructio Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Bodies; Nuclear War; Sex OUT OF THIS WORLD, by RALPH J. SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: Many ways you could Subject(s): Nuclear War OUTSIDE THE GATES OF NORRISTOWN PRISON, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: The police are watching Subject(s): Nuclear War PASSAGE, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: At dusk in the small midwestern towns Subject(s): Nuclear War PEACE CONFERENCE, by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER Poem Source First Line: An aircraft is landing with a hundred ... Subject(s): Nuclear War PLUTONIAN ODE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis 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 POINT OF EMPTINESS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But the point of emptiness is that it's always there Last Line: The point of emptiness is that it's always there %in all that matters, insubstantial as air Subject(s): 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 PREWAR, by THOMAS BRASCH Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamed Subject(s): Nuclear War PRO-NUKE BLUES, by ALAN DUGAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb PRO-NUKE BLUES, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bloom you flowers while you can Subject(s): Nuclear War PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR WAR, by JACKSON MACLOW Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much more than they did the bombing what they ended Last Line: Teaching us how to break through the wall of denial above the heads of %all governments Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson Subject(s): Nuclear War; Psychology RADIANT STONE, by LOUIS J. BOSCO Poem Source First Line: Now it is a city of bricks and seasons Subject(s): Nuclear War RECURRENT DESIGN, by YUSUF O. KASSAM Poem Source First Line: The sun set, night came, and everything was dark Last Line: Never woke again Subject(s): Nuclear War RUFOUS: TOMALES, 1986, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: A rufous %mad about the fuschias Last Line: With blossoms of nuclear fire Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Nuclear War SAINT COW, by KARL PATTEN Poem Source First Line: The hydrogen bomb they mistakenly Last Line: Who do and know not what they do. %feast day: may 22 %emblem: five full teats Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Nuclear War SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Last Line: The mind of man is on fire %and where will his eye find rest Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War SIGNE WALLER: NOVEMBER 3, 1979, by ALAN BRILLIANT Poem Source First Line: Where there should be trees Subject(s): Nuclear War SILOS, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: Against augusta, montana: prairie dovetailed Last Line: No longer dark, no longer living %out of sight and range Subject(s): Nuclear War SIMULTANEOUSLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 STRUCTURE OF EMPIRICAL LAW, by SAM RASNAKE Poem Source First Line: Careful observation Last Line: It shouldn't be done again Subject(s): Bethe, Hans Albrecht (b. 1906); Nuclear War TERMINAL COLLOQUY, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 TESTIMONY, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was going to make something of it Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 GARDEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 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 THE SEVENTH HELL: OF SMOKE, WHERE FIRE-RAISERS TRY .. ESCAPE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The houses of men are on fire Subject(s): Men; Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb THERE IS YET TIME, by ARVEL STEECH Poem Source First Line: This first year Subject(s): Nuclear War THREE MILE ISLAND SUITE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Two in the diner Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Nuclear War TIME OF THE MISSILE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb TO MY WIFE IN TIME OF WAR, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: First, taking one of the branch Subject(s): Nuclear War 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 VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's one of those blistering desert days Subject(s): Nuclear War; Soldiers; War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb 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 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 WHAT GETS IN, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In daylight %houses expand Last Line: Even the moon at the window Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Nuclear War WHEN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 WHERE WE ARE, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I sit beneath the linden's Last Line: Cat leaps from the shade, %into the moment, where we are Subject(s): Nuclear War WHITE THROAT OF YOUR LOVE WHO WEARS, by DAVID WYATT Poem Source Subject(s): Nuclear War WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cow could not stand up. The deadly river Subject(s): Nuclear War YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The polar dew has just warned that a nuclear rocket strike Last Line: Now go quickly to your shelters Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Nuclear War |
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