Poems Against Nuclear War

It is funny the fate of things. You write something one day and it is published the next -- if you have a Blog to post it in.



In the world of publishing elsewhere nothing happens quite so quickly. Oh, occasionally you may scribble out some doggerel and it gets published the same year, but oft times it feels as if eons have rolled by before you see a word in print.



I wrote some poems as a teenager between 1956 and 1958 that finally saw print forty years later in 1998. They were read (not by me, I wasn't even there) in Kansas at the
17th Annual Poetry Reading Against Nuclear Holocaust July 1998: A Poem to Save the World. They were then published in an anthology under my byline Nitewrit.

This group of poems included:

Cycle
Gatherings

Ballad of the War Moon

Optimyth

Pestimist

I am posting them, one by one, in Blossoms & Weeds, so go there and you can read them as they appear. (The mushroom shape of the titles is not coincidental.)