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The Sleeping Giant

< the sleeping giant once again has been awoke to the sounds of great thunder and billows of smoke what has happened his imperial's majesty's sleep out from the depts of hell a great wavetrain has creeped tainting soil where once land had been so enriched brandishing homes businesses left them in a ditch twisted metals dancing in swirls of stenching air recovered bodies of beloved this is so unfair across it's great mountain range somber is now heard unity becomes one and not forgotten word rebuild rebuild the sleeping giant request let our people of japan return to their nest for there will always's be another tomorrow where earthquakes and tsunami's will bring such sorrow for an sleeping giant all nestled in his bed and his people dressed in five elements of thread Tribute To Japan

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 5/21/2011 12:30:00 AM
Many Congrats Katherine on big coveted win in Debbie's contest. Luv & best wishes - Hitendra Mehta
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Date: 5/20/2011 10:13:00 PM
wow, what a stunning final stanza and "his people dressed in five elements of thread" Congrats on this wonderful win!
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Date: 5/20/2011 3:32:00 AM
A great piece, i especially like the last line - ' and his people dressed in five elements of thread' xx
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Date: 5/19/2011 12:35:00 PM
Congratulations on your well deserved win in Debbie Guzzi's contest Katherine. Love, Carol
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Date: 5/19/2011 9:12:00 AM
Congrats on your win with this stirring poem, Katherine :)
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Date: 5/19/2011 5:59:00 AM
Congratulations on the win in the contest of debbie, katherine
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Date: 5/19/2011 5:24:00 AM
Congrats Katherine on your great win in the Japan contest.. enjoy luv..
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Date: 5/8/2011 11:48:00 AM
A wonderful tribute to Japan, Katherine, and I wish you success in Deb's contest. That country seems to get more than its share of tragedies. My heart goes out to them. As for your comment, I have grown to appreciate free verse more and more as I look at the requirements of all these forms. It's hard to make our message clear with these syllable constraints. Then there is "meter" which often eludes me entirely, but rhyme comes much easier. Love, Carolyn
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Date: 5/8/2011 9:56:00 AM
Lovely and fitting tribute to Japan and its people, if it's for the contest of Debbie good luck, katherine
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Date: 5/1/2011 11:35:00 AM
Smile ~ "How You Doing 'Sweeet Katherine?'" ~ Tis good to behold "Your Lovely Beauty" again, my dear! ~ And this is a very well written and profoundly brushed canvas of a poe ~ Yet for some reason it causes myself to consider the nurseries tale of, "Jack and The Beanstock" ~ And luckily for little wee Jackie, he had that golden goose that went quack quack quack ~ Smile, "My Love to 'You Always,'" John!:) ~
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