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

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Did you make up the rhyme scheme here? It's seems to be in iambic pentamenter which is right and it has 14 lines which it should have. But then, the ones I'm most familiar with are Shakespearean, Spenserian and Petrarchan and I need to refresh my brain on those. Even though I mostly write rhyming stuff, I'm no good at sonnets. I just may need to work on a few ... I just can't come up with topics lately. I'm in a writer's block big time.
Barbara

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> On Jun 9, 2014, at 6:11 PM, "Barbara HAMMEL via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Bill! I love this poem! I can definitely wrap my mind around it.
> Barbara
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:18 AM, "William L Houts via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> HI Gang,
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> No enemies were bombed, no tanks or planes:
>> 
>> just people walking dogs or bringing home
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> But that's a country with an ancient mind,
>> 
>> where history is taught and facts retained.
>> 
>> America, I fear, is not that kind
>> 
>> 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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