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Ghost Riders in the Sky
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We visited the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History while in Albuquerque last weekend. It contained a large number of military exhibits including replicas of “Fat Man and Little Boy,“ the bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also two of the four thermonuclear devices we accidently dropped on Spain in 1966 (without exploding), and backpack A-Bombs that our paratroopers once carried. Their outdoor exhibits included a B-52 Strato-fortress, a B-29 Super-fortress (think Enola Gay), an atomic cannon, and a retired ICBM. I took a photo of the inside of the business end of the one of the ICBM’s rocket engines. The little black dots are fuel inlets for the combustion chamber. All I could see though, were ghosts. Photo;By Patrick Granfors

Intricate metal forged by man Designed to deliver Hell Ghostly images of people spared By the bomb that never fell Warm world locked inside cold war The remnants slowly thaw As conflicts brew their toxic stew Begun with “Shock and Awe” There is no doubt that we were harmed We cried revenge at any cost But now a decade has been spent More lives and treasure lost The tactics cannot work long term Occupation will not tame Hawk or dove, kill or love The result will be the same It’s time to bring our loved ones home And at the next Jihadist try We’ll send a package COD Of ghost riders in the sky Copyright 2011 Patrick Granfors

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron

Reviewed on May 24, 2011

The problem is the world never learns.....

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Eileen Granfors

Reviewed on May 22, 2011

Amazing.

Reviewed by Axilea MU

Reviewed on May 20, 2011

I like what you saw and the way you put it into words. Mistakes are so easily repeated, it's scary. Expressive descriptions in "Intricate metal forged by man/Designed to deliver Hell" and "Warm world locked inside cold war".

Axilea

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan

Reviewed on May 19, 2011

sobering

Reviewed by Donna Chandler

Powerful words backed up with a powerful picture. Well said!

Donna

Reviewed by Richard King

Great poem and well said, my friend. Hope it never comes to that and can't begin to comprehend the reprocussions if it ever does.

Thanks Dick

Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)

great poem, great rhyme scheme, great johnny cash song, yippe-ai-ay, yippe-ai-oh, ghost riders in, ghost riders in the sky..................

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila

Absolutely amazing....I think they should take children from kindergarten right through college to tour museums like that to show them how stupid previous generations were....and hopefully they'll realize they are the ones who can make the world a better place.....I see the ghosts too....that's what I thought the pic was when I first looked at it....very clever shot, Patrick!

Anna

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Quite profound. And that picture is quite powerful; I see many skeletons (or perhaps ghosts), with hollow eyes.

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo

Reviewed on May 18, 2011

You have a keen eye for detail. I have not been there yet, but have been to quite a few bases across the country. Amazing reflection upon mankind...

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Which will infect the world with radiation & destroy not only the terrorists but U.S. in the end...e

Reviewed by Christine Tsen

You have such a unique style and way of seeing things and...wow, this is full of wonderful individuality!
Christine

Reviewed by Paul Berube

Well done, Patrick.