Tim Ryerson Poet Personification

Camille

She was out there
out there in the dark
A brooding monster
deciding where to attack
Her fuel and her ammo:
Waters, warm Gulf waters

She attacked...
Howling, shrieking winds
Thirty feet of churning sea
A thirty foot tidal wave
A thirty foot Tsunami
swallowing the land...

Sent to purge?
Sent to cleanse?
Sent to teach?
God only knows
God and the Daughter
Mighty Mother Nature...

but she was horrible
horrible and beautiful...

Hurricane Camille
Biloxi/Gulfport/Bay St. Louis, MS
August 17-18, 1969
Deaths: 259
Tidal Surge: 28 ft.
Est. Wind speed: 225+MPH (The wind instruments were destroyed at 200 mph) Imagine an F-5 tornado reaching across the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast...Add a 28 ft. storm surge to that and you can imagine the destructive force of Camille. Those who witnessed the aftermath of the storm said it looked like an atomic bomb had been dropped.
Of the 259 deaths, 113 were caused in the state of Virginia due to catastrophic flooding...

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Paul Callus January 13, 2015 at 11:17 AM Your expressive poem about Camille is one of the best that I have read about this natural catastrophe. Luckily we do not suffer from such unwelcome visitors in Malta. We had some strong winds some days ago and it was not at all nice, let alone having tornados! #7 // paul

Jan Allison January 12, 2015 at 2:45 PM I am so so pleased we are not subject to such extremes of weather - my heart goes out to the victims of natural disasters like this I cannot even begin to imagine the devastation this causes - great descriptive write - a 7 from me:-) Hugs jan xx Tim Ryerson January 12, 2015 at 3:25 PM Thanks my friend! We lived in Biloxi from '73 to '79 and went through a major hurricane though not as powerful as Camille....If you like, check out my narrative poem 'Fredrick' which by the way was the first hurricane with a male name...All before had women's names