Oh!
what great dramas
this date has foretold
bore witness
over fifty years
the nuclear fuel of pen
with creative sword
combined
to do no harm

Here in this place
where once stood a city
in allegory
now sits only an empty field
as if hit by a peculiar hurricane
Atomic Nevada of a different sort

The people had all moved on
however
due to regular advance warnings
that the 8th would come
and it did
as now they safely grow old
relocated to other dimensions
where even there
the explosion of words
still holds sway
strong in a collective memory

Not surprising then
no flowers of poetry
grow on this date anymore
though the field already green
with promise
of what may or may not
come to pass
as it always has
yet to be foretold

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05/03/2025

Author's Note: For May the 8th, long may she reign.

Posted on 05/03/2025
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