Best Howled Poems

The rain came and pummelled her. She did not stop walking.
A tree limb fell, knocking her down. She got back up.
Lightning came, but she did not fold, she was too determined.
A man stopped and tried to give her a lift. She said "no thank you."

She...

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Loudly howled the gale
To mark the last breath fail
The rain also cried
When the last man died

Polar caps had long since melted away
Sea levels had grown higher every day
Small hills now each an island state
All because we left it too late

For actions delayed by accountancy rules
Had...

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I once heard a wolf howling, 
As I was flying beneath the Moon.
I asked him:
‘Why do you howl at the moon?’
Then it said:
‘I once saw a wolf sitting on the moon,
I know because I saw its shadow,
I’m still asking:
“Why are you sitting on the moon?”
But,
It...

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the
wind
snapped and howl
from
the
fresh
whiskey smile
through
the 
bloodshot eyes
from
the
jack-o-lantern
orange moon
yes
the
wind
snapped and howl...

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My tears were all for Fred.
My brother has already died;
My mother and my dad and then
The Tom to whom I had been wed. 
Through it all, I'd been dry-eyed.
(They stalk me at night in bed.)

The phone call came that Fred had died
And a bomb went...

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The banks here were overflowing
The trees bent down, down like twigs
The wind howled, blowing to and fro
We didn't know the storm would be so big
I'm talking about down in Texas
Hurricane Alecia
Hurricane Ike
And Hurricane Beryl
They crashed into the seawall
The skies were dark and bleak
Storms in Texas...

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