Best Helens Poems

Where forests stretched for miles, and Spirit Lake
lay at its foot, there stood a rebel peak.
One day the earth beneath began to quake.
What havoc Mother Nature was to wreak!

The tremors kept occurring till the day
two craters which had formed began to merge,
erupting ash. Wise folks...

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With apocalyptic roar and the sound
Of the fifth angel’s trumpet, this star’s fall
From heaven collaps’d the volcanic north
Face, releasing in pyroclastic flow
Roiling, rumbling, demonic spirits,
Dwellers of the Abyss, vaporizing
Instantaneously man, deer and bird,
Blotting the sun, with roiling death’s ash clouds. 
Today, this scene, once hosting...

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angry inhale deep
venting smoldering tantrum 
animals fleeing


2/4/2020



Mount St. Helens in Washington erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people on this day in 1980. Ash from the volcanic eruption fell as far away as Minnesota.

I lived only 235 miles south from Mount St. Helens...

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When I was little I heard grown-ups
talk about the mountain erupting,
but it was Rainier they feared,
they didn't suspect the quiet sister
of harboring the earth's hot passion~
until that May morning when her face exploded
in a bitter blast of deep-held rage.


Remembering the eruption of Mount Saint Helens...

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Helen’s hugger-mugger ways caused a hullabaloo
Her hoarder house hardly had room for two
Let’s trick her outside, someone suggested.
But Helen firmly and fiercely protested.
She’s got to go out sometimes said the throng.
But everything was brought in, so the bystanders were wrong....

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