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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