Best Hurricane Poems

A dedication to Eileen Ghali
for her prolific production of
inspiring work

Willow Tree = Keyboard
And that’s your only clue

Hurricane Eileen - The Storm

As darkness drew nearer
Light falling...

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"Inside the Hurricane"



Inside the Hurricane
starts small

a minuet waltzing
cadence like clandestine lovers

whispered reverently 
soft becomes hard 

and slow for a fall
under dark cloudy covers

boiling over 
to...

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genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Bits of me are missing mother,
the bits of me which you placed.
Bits of me are missing Mother;
ah,        ...

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Earth Element Of Wind


Earth element of wind, elusive to exploring eyes,
     a gaseous, gusty ghost, she gyrates, gallops gallantly.
She bashes, bends,...

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THE POET’S PANEGYRIC

“There’s someone I knew with talent unleashed
and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached
This poet sought inspiration from the living and...

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PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Inspiration where do you go when
you leave and your dry, barren
riverbed causes blinding dust storms in
my mind?  Do you evaporate into
mist, become a gray...

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WITH  JUST ~ONE  KISS

I rise, like fire in your eyes.
Feel the burn, as I discharge my flames.
Like Frankenstein, 
I will make you come...

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with your delicate little hand 
with your long slender fingers
you touched my lips 

my heart was beating like a baby bird flying for the first...

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Your voice rose gold 
touching deep beauty
If I were a cloud 
I would rain kisses all over you 
It was no secret that she was...

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Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
                 residing inside of...

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Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate....

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Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s...

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I don't know how or when
but I'm gonna get there
Even if I must battle
Tidal wave or fierce typhoon
I'll fight hurricane and storm
Knowing your love will...

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On the eastern shore, she knocked on our door
Then drifted away to the west
She then turned north, and steadily forth
With rage upon her crest

As she...

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I’m a lonely lighthouse battered by the sea
Standing all alone steadfast and strong
Keeping guard for souls in difficulty
Maintaining my watch all day long

Waves exploding but...

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Those old memories crash
     Like frenzied hurricane waves
          Upon our sand and...

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The walls have fallen and the grounds overgrown,
If you’d never been here you might never have known,

The stair that lead nowhere from the cracked ocean...

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She said..
I'm gonna kiss you in slow motion
Maybe take a ride upon your ocean

I'd like to pull you gently into me
The way salt dances in...

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All you do 
All you say
All you write
In the jasmine garden
Is a frenzied drum
Bludgeoning me to dumb

Intensely numb
I feel
As I reel

Yes
As you come
Rising on tides
Passion...

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Too many hurricanes are causing havoc this season.  We might as well have a limerick collaboration about them since they seem to be in...

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Houston

I wonder if the summer rain was warm
that poured like Pharaoh’s plagues upon the town
as people waded from their homes in swarms
and small craft was...

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Come, oh the wind
With the muscle of a wrestler
Come to sweep through me
Fiercely I say
And carry me away
Away from myself
To a place so quiet
And there...

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Turmoil
God awful gut wrenching 
nightmare riding
turmoil.

Throat clenching
acid rising murder of crows,
False importance on the trivial grows.

A gag reflex of learned fear
turmoil roils hurricane high
calms counterweight...

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