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HIROSHIMA war poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
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In the ceremonial Hiroshima The sun stands still. It is the moment. It is hot, As always. The silence sweats, Waiting for the time. It is the hour. And now the school kids pronounce Clear truths In crystal voices. Unassailable. We are awake, Remembering, And yet forgetting, Asleep in ritual. The protocol of public recollection Does not permit, For the purposes of the present moment, The child at play with its mother's breasts, The child alive, The mother extremely dead, One of the thousands littered in the streets Of the dinosaur city where all the clocks have stopped. |
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