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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For 'We Are The Children Of The Atomic Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we are the children of the Atomic Age<br>Before our birth our genes were coded and spliced<br>Yet the earth, the earth, is beautiful<br>For fallout the wind brings that we cannot see<br>For nuclear power plants and missiles mapping our trails</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the earth is so beautiful<br>For the deception of powerful men we pay and pay<br>For their so strange illusion of boundless power<br>Yet the earth, the earth is so beautiful<br>for bald eagles and other endangered species<br>for the tragic magnificence of all the doomed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the earth is beautiful everywhere<br>For people born today who will not live too long<br>For the medical profession which has no enduring cure<br>Yet the earth is beautiful still beautiful<br>For how we turn to flora and fauna for healing and love<br>for how those men's vision wins out over the earth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the earth is still beautiful<br>How we dream again of her green vegetative hair<br>How they dream of an abstract ghostly heaven<br>Yet the earth, the earth, is beautiful<br>For our irradiated food and pesticide-drenched crops<br>For our vast indulgences that led to these disasters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the earth is still beautiful<br>For foolish men's dreams of escaping to the stars<br>For their deadly machinery and all its effects<br>Yet the earth, the earth, is beautiful everywhere<br>for how the polar caps are really melting<br>for our prophecies of falling into the sea<br>Yet the earth, the earth and sea, are beautiful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the thousands of species that have already died<br>For us who would like to survive-<br>For the earth / sea / sky are beautiful, so beautiful</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how nature's subtle patterns resemble one another<br>How fireflies mirror the distant stars<br>And Hindu palaces look like children's sandcastles<br>And the sea contains butterfly patterned fish</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how black bats spread darkness with their caped wings<br>And light and shadow coruscate in a dance<br>For how shadows sew the living and dead together<br>And spirals connect us-fetuses, snails, corpses-<br>in the world's coiled womb</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how the willow's slender leaves dropp like tears<br>And foxgloves, little delicate bells of dawn, <br>sway to the gong of the wind<br>For how mountains are molded like breasts<br>And cowparsnip umbels delicate as grandma's white lace<br>And coleuses might have been daubed by artists' brushes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how bird of paradise have beaks sharp as feathered birds'<br>And hummingbirds, fishes, frogs and stars share in the<br>world's iridescent luminescence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for how the trees' leaves are their mantle of hair<br>That they shed and grow, grow and shed and shed and grow again<br>And for how cat, zebra, raccoon and tiger lily<br>Are marked by the same winddriven eternal fingers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how our eyes sparkle like jewels, illuminating darkness-<br>Brown for the earth, blue for the sky, green for the sea<br>And for how our bodies contain arteries of water<br>Like the earth its net of oceans, lakes and rivers-<br>Its profusion of life sustaining blood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how the sun rises each morning on its own legs<br>And disappears each night into a mesh of crimson darkness<br>And for how the moon trails the sea after it<br>Like a bride a billowing wedding train</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For how fresh snow is like froth of foam capped waves<br>And for the rainbow painting arches in the sky<br>And for how we are here today in the flesh<br>And for how soon there may be few left like us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For we-we are the children-of the Atomic Age<br>For all this and for the earth, the earth, <br>Which is beautiful, still beautiful everywhere we go</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erika+Horn">Erika Horn</a><div class=q>
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For we are the children of the Atomic Age
Before our birth our genes were coded and spliced
Yet the earth, the earth, is beautiful
For fallout the wind brings that we cannot see
For nuclear power plants and missiles mapping our trails

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