Enola Poems - Poems about Enola

Lucifer, To The Enola Gay by Michael R. Burch Go then, and give them my meaning so that their teeming streets become my city. Bring back a pretty flower— a chrysanthemum, perhaps, to bloom if but an hour, within a certain room of mine where the sun...Read the rest...

Enola Gay There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas; Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1 Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity, Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...Read the rest...

It makes you wonder what would have been that day If the Enola Gay didn't fly to Hiroshima to blast it away Would the Japanese have surrendered Before the Russians joined the war as they intended It might have...Read the rest...

Japan's consequences were a little more apparent, and devastating. Japan's once great city of Hiroshima, lay in ruin, a barren wasteland, with its entire population, sixty thousand individuals, perished instantly in one bright and intense...Read the rest...

In the year 1945, a few powerful American leaders decided it was alright for them to play God. Taking the initiative to create a weapon of mass destruction, not exceeded still today, or even closely...Read the rest...

FLIGHT OF ENOLA GAY Will you tell us tomorrow where we're going, Enola Gay? There's so much more we wanted to say. But there's no time for sorrow, we'll enjoy time that's left, Though we know our time ended yesterday. We...Read the rest...

I think that what happened was that we all wanted to be Oedipus and possess our mothers. But because society frowns on such couplings, we actually sought to BECOME our mothers. Since only a woman can make...Read the rest...