Images Of Fire Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

August 6,1945, Americans dropped an atomic bomb
on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Over 250,000 died.
Three days later a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Flying one mile high
American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay
Opens bomb doors over Hiroshima
Pilot, Paul Tibbets, becomes king of death.

Bomb
called 'Little Boy'
drops to earth.

Hell, bursts asunder engulfing the city
Blinding flash, searing heat wave
Mushroom cloud thousands of feet high
Tongues of flames devouring life.