Poetry The Detonation (Litany)
Detonate!
The blind will see the words
The deaf will hear the words
The dumb will speak the words
The crippled will be healed by the words
The dead will rise by the words
Detonate!
In your anatomy of Uranium skin
Beryllium-Polonium core and Plutonium organs
Deuterium and Tritium nucleus sealed in
You are like the nuclear weapons
A weapon for imagination
The mind you will set off to shatter
Producing a fireball of heat, light and radiation
Stem and domed cap your structure
Detonate!
Force of many megatons exploding with;
The repetition of consonants in your alliteration
The human attributes in your personification
A balance of contrast in your antithesis
An ironic understatement in your litotes
A deliberate exaggeration in every hyperbole
The comparison with ‘like’ or ‘as’ in every simile
The comparison between two in your metaphor
The use of sound in your onomatopoeia
With crude use for dispraise in your sarcasm
With representation of something in your symbolism
The play on words in your pun
Contradictory terms together in your oxymoron
Conveying the opposite of what seems to be, in your irony
Creating appealing pictures in your imagery
Repeating for emphasis in your repetition
A device of argument in your rhetorical question
With use of criticism and wit in your satire
Are the energies of the bomb in your style?
Detonate!
In your words persons:
See what is not there
Smell what is not there
Feel what is not there
Taste what is not there
Hear what is not there
In the detonation
More powerful than the atomic bomb
An explosion of imagination
I search for perfection
In this nuclear fission
Within your protons
Within your neutrons
Within your electrons
Poetry like atoms
Poetry the art form
Poetry lives on!