Best Katrina Poems

The entire city is in darkness
Yet the brightness shines through you
People left to get away, in their cars they drove
I stayed - flood water is used to flush the toilet
I'm glad to have a gas stove

Water in the ice chest, tub and washing machine
Old folks...

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nature, storm, boat, clothes, house, water

AWASH AND AWAY! ©  KIMO

Listen, Katrina will come inland
Katrina has come to play
Playgrounds underwater
Sleepy times put asunder
Bedclothes hung out in tree tops, upended
Held fast in forked boughs
Homesteads beached, broken
Swirl and swell in amongst debris
They become crippled and tainted
A brew...

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The flood waters lapped all around
Leaving not very much dry ground
So we all rowed home
And got The Road Home
Raising our houses up off the ground...

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The TV showed a tyrant tumbling towards our house.
I was weary and wanted to leave before it hit, but
My mom was too weak and too old to leave her bed.
She couldn’t leave so I sat, sat and prayed.
I boarded up a window standing on a...

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funeral, loss
Katrina Waves

Draws her strength internally
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore
Headed inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count 
‘Frontage’ lays flattened now
Waved ‘kaput’!Katrina 
Drawing her core strength 
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore 
Head inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count...

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Once was a gal by the name of Katrina
She acted superior like a Russian tsarina
Her nose in the air
Walked with a flare
Till one day she got served with a subpoena

(HUH!)


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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She's trying to wash US
away
So, WE, in Our homes, can
No longer stay
Sneaking up on US, a dirty
trick she did play
Had US like OTIS, 'sitting at
the dock of the bay'
Waiting on SALVATION, come 
what may
When LIFE, as WE knew it, had
gone astray
Why Lord Why, didn't you...

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Curves defines her scenic route at 
proper speed limit...

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Hello Hurricane Katrina. How are you these days?
The last time you visited us we shall never forget
Your generosity, kindness, humility, love, hard work
Which community cannot remember your lovely hymns?

Every household you visited there was merry making
The hungry you fed and the thirsty you gave drinks
Children...

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Marvin are you really starving, I 
know you work hard every day, yet 
you ain't got money from day to 
day. Man all you have is you,sure 
hope you don't think folks gonna 
take care of you. You keep asking 
for money for this and...

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Katrina:
                          The waters rise as the tears we cry,
           ...

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The Jezebel Katrina

It was a nasty wind that blew 
Upon the shore that day.
She howled and hissed but would not desist
She had to have her way.

She was a lady of the night
And she was dressed to kill.
She blared and she glared, and she even dared
To...

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Nothing out of place
Just playful late summer breeze
A gentle warning...
For children often forget
That Mother has a temper...

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Her name was Katrina, her vegeance was wide,
hundreds of people had no where to hide.
Her hurricane winds battered the coast,
distroying what people loved the most.
Security was taken, in the blink of an eye,
leaving people helpless, many would die.
Inadequate levees broke, all was not well,
New Orleans...

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Today marks a decade 
For Hurricane Katrina 
Alot of people Lost everything
Let me explain to you what I mean a
No one could ever forget that day
It was hard 
To sit and watch what was being displayed 
Once a whole state
Now it was torn
Water everywhere 
How...

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