On August Sixth 1945
Little Boy was dropped and many died
No one in Hiroshima recalled hearing any noise
All the buildings started falling down
This atomic bomb saved the lives of many GI’s
160,000 people did survive
The blast travelled far and wide
Nuclear weapons are not toys
Temperatures reached several million ℃ in the town
A mushroom cloud rose into the skies
Before the blast 300,000 people were alive
The bomb exploded there was no place to hide
Skin started melting wrecking the delicate poise
The smell of burning flesh is enough to make anyone frown
Radiation in their eyes, cries of the wise no surprise
Written for Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Saturday Mix Lucky Dip hosted by weejars aka Sarah where she reached into her mystery bag and pulled out a Rimas Dissolutas Poem.
I’d never heard of a Rimas Dissolutas poem Jim. You did a fine job with an interesting subject.
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Thanks Peter and it was such a tragedy. I wonder if anyone will be holding a 75 year memorial of this historic event.
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I’m not a poem guy so I couldn’t tell you a good one from a bad one but I liked this one.
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I like rhyming poems, but this one is difficult as it has an a, b, c, d and e rhyming pattern that is repeated over three verses. I wrote the first verse and then I looked for words that would rhyme with “1945”, “died”, “”noise”, “down” and “GI’s”. It was kind of fun to write the last two verses.
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they fit well and that is what matters…yea I’m too shallow to get the non-rhyming ones.
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This is one of those situations that is the worst of the worst but also appeared to be what was needed to shorten the war. It’s a real shame that warmongers need such extremes to stand down. A lesson the collective we should have learned something from 😦 Good job on the form, Jim. It was challenging to write but also fun for me.
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The bomb probably saved my father’s life, as he was done fighting Germany and his unit was preparing to go to fight in Japan.
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Oh my. My dad fought in Italy, also the end of the war, as he sat in Goering’s War Crimes trial (one of the few things he said about the war.)
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I bet our dad’s could swap some stories.
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They probably are right now, in heaven. Your dad isn’t still alive, is he?
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No he died on 9/14/2000.
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The entire reality of war is so sad. The loss of lives, real people, is tragic. As our nation’s death toll rises and rises, the WAR on Covid 19, can’t end soon enough.
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War is really hell Lauren.
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