Analysis of Hiroshima Delirium
An Open Poem to a Shinto Grandpa Name of Harry
Grandpa Harry, I did not cause Hiroshima,
As you thought in 1951,
When the Trickster told you that I was the mother of
Sir Isaac Newton and he was the cause of the nuclear
Explosion confusion--
Which caused such profound suffering and harm to women
You loved that you decided to torture me for a lifetime.
I know that the horror of that day palls all other horrible
Events in the history of Mankind.
It seeped into me through the floor from a hole,
In the memories of some nurse at the time, a witness
On the USS Hope in Tokyo Harbor later that day.
Where victims who died could not truly end their
Nervous systems screaming,
running to the waters of the Tokyo Bay to wash the skin
where lymph nodes were streaming fluid and pus
There to ease pains, over and over, their bodies
Melted crayons,
causing such trauma in Harry, living Japanese at the time,
that he never forgot.
Sorrow at the loss of his girlfriends
To lose good will, forgiveness to the USA or
Mercy to others until the airbag Takota scandal
Woke the nurse up to make peace again.
I did not cause Hiroshima but lost you as a friend
There and then, Grandpa.
– Mary Khazak Grant, 2/6/24 in Rochester, NY, USA
Scheme | XXAXXBBCDXXEFXXAEXXCXXXDXXX F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111110 1101111010 1110 1010111110101 110100110110100 010010 1110110001110 1111101101101 1110101111110100 0100100111 11011101101 00100111101010 101111010101011 11011111011 101010 101010101011101 1110101001 111110010110 101 101100101001101 111001 10101111 1111010101111 101100101110 101111101 1111010111101 1011 10110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,226 |
Words | 243 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 27, 1 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
About this poem
This poem was written after a psychic experience a la Jon Edwards, where the poet melded with the soul of a nurse from WWII who had passed in the apartment below. She was there in the aftermath of the bombing which scarred her soul forever.
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Written on February 06, 2024
Submitted by marypaintsnpencils22 on February 10, 2024
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