[stylist] Poem - "Hiroshima" - (sonnet)

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Bill! I love this poem! I can definitely wrap my mind around it.
Barbara

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> On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:18 AM, "William L Houts via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> HI Gang,
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> Here's a sonnet; one of the few I've written worthy of the name, and it shouldn't be a headache to read, as far as I can tell. Comments welcome, as always.
> 
> --Bill
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> No enemies were bombed, no tanks or planes:
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> just people walking dogs or bringing home
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> their fish and rice from market stalls while chains
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> of splitting atoms high above become
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> a lightning hellish holocaust which rains
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> a nightmare poison down, a billion wraths.
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> Today, the children fold their paper cranes
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> and pray to save the world from psychopaths.
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> But that's a country with an ancient mind,
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> where history is taught and facts retained.
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> America, I fear, is not that kind
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> Our virgin state, when lost, is e'er regained.
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> To learn and leave the past?We're not inclined:
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> our nation's got a faint, forgetful mind.
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> copyright William L. Houts 2014
> United States of America
> All Rights Reserved
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