Best Helene Poems

               Birds restless that dawn

               Clouds announced fierce storm coming

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Some lost their lights, the brilliance
	Electricity, burning through the night
		Inviting, inspiring, igniting our lives.

Some lost their water, the gentle flow
	Source of hope and wonder, graceful
		Moving over the spirit, sweet fulfillment.

Some lost their ability to communicate
	Cell phones grew quiet, the internet – silent
		Most felt some anxiety,...

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         Here comes the storm
kicking up its heels, exhaling wind and sea.
       When it grows up…
   When it grows up…
When it grows up, what will it be?

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Helene
Miracle Man
10/2/2024

A lifetime of work
taken away in a flash.
Only clothes on their backs,
and very little petty cash.

No food, or water, and many
already question why me?
But God always has reasons 
beyond what man can see.

First it was the severe wind
then unimaginable rain. 
The life they’ll now...

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Shouting, over the sounds of rain, feelings
more commanding than the season’s pain
erasing the hope from hearts, but who’s to blame
for the night’s lure in pieces of yesterdays
wondering, unclear which prayer to plead
will the season tell her story in dark – it feels insane

no more moments...

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Mightn’t get any sleep
Nose pressed to the screen

so…colorful
so…dreamy

mesmerised

No one’s turned the faucet off
landfall imminent

head like a pressure cooker
build up

drip drip drip
commercial break drums
melody strums

calculating where my loved ones are

a hurricane inland!

the light’s turned off
outside

flashlight relied
upon

filling the tub
not for ducks

morbid message
for those who stayed
permanent i.d. yourself
so...

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Helene, you stormed through Appalachian way
from the gulf coast,
you brought a merciless wrath,
a hurricane in the early autumnal mountains.
Mudslides, flooding, high winds, driving rain,
helpless people swept away.

You had fierce scorn,
you screamed and rattled our windows.
A hellion of force,
Blue Ridge recovery,
slow, but hopeful.
Weeping as the waters...

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Read once again Daniel 6, use the New Living Translation which is online for your use for free.     

Eye of storm
Slight adjustment east
Just enough
For me; now
I know God kept me so safe
From harms awful reach

Then God spoke
That is a selfish thought
Others...

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Buckets of rain, boisterous as thunder, wrecked September’s farewell, flooding the mountains, the hills, the rivers and creeks. Wild and livid, coloring the air in streaming tears, erasing the faintest feel of a hopeful prayer. The moment spun out of control and I could feel...

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I don’t feel strong – my soul, it grieves
I don’t feel wise – my spirit sighs, then weeps
I don’t feel sure – my heart cries out
I don’t feel resilient – my life is but a breath…

Once in a while, I remember how she screamed,
The storm...

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Tears keep falling, 
My feelings, sprawling
The linemen, their calling…

Winds were still blowing,
My heart and soul, knowing,
Despite the storm, there’s flowing…

Love beyond what I can conceive,
Love that comforts those who grieve,
Love that lasts so I believe…

Each lineman has amazing drive.
His heart, his soul – made to...

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She lost her home
She lost her ‘stuff’
She lost heart – but was still tough.

When all was said and done,
She reached out to the Son -
She knew some tears and fears
But love would sing into her ears.
While night seemed so hard,
Hope shined through her lifeguard.

She lost...

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While my heart beats, rhythms of gentle
Silent, yet burning, beneath these Blue Ridges,
An ache, a pain, a troubled heart, wandering
In the last moments of a thought, just before sunrise,
Helene, the storm who raged through my life,
Penetrating the skies, erasing the star’s hesitant breath,
Vomiting doubt, darkness,...

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Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. –Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States

A year of heartbreak, soundless as the stars
who glitter, surreal, remembering 
while we make our wishes, feel the...

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remember, the scent of hope
after the storm, the hurricane
who blew in rains, shaming earth
so the still floods raged around us,
flowing rivers to cover us in pain.

remember, the still morning after
when time stood, quietly reflecting
the night gone, lost like a prayer
fading into the skies, heaven stirred
by...

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