Best Natural Disastersearth Poems
Before anyone could say another word,
they all heard,
the quake,
a low, slight blow,
ready to grow,
and put on one hell of a show,
it was a distant rumble at first,
it grew rapidly, the buildings shook,
that’s all it took,
as rubble crumbled down,
crushing the ground,
cracking the streets,
and the earth opening at their feet,
upward went the vast soil,
people screaming during the middle of the turmoil,
the split in the earth traveled forward,
racing toward
the horizon,
as it swallowed everything whole,
people huddled close to waving grass,
waiting for the quake to pass,
hopeless, no doubt, frightened,
echoing cracks as trees snapped,
minds confused and briefly trapped.
How much more could the earth take,
As it battles another earth-quake?
As the waves are crashing
The earth is thrashing
Violent winds and shakes
People searching for shelter
The earth is thrashing
While the ground around begins to crumble
People searching for shelter
As radiation fills the sky
While the ground around crumbles
Violent winds and shakes
As radiation fills the sky
While the waves are crashing
Nothing is left to rage about
We have only passive flight of words
Over a lingering doubt
That we like fish and birds
Should keep the same mortality
Insecure
Against the norm of stupidity.
What is the cure?
Against the sea burning and choking
The air with smoke
Against the earth upward hurling
Black as bile, and the British bloke
Counting the pence of his loss
And not the death of innocense
We have found in dross
Of civility and prosperity. This is no sense!
The earth is bleeding from her bowels deep
A gaping hole is torn in her heart
The turtles are dead and not asleep
Stock by stock we fall apart.
I can smell the carnage across the gulf dark
Of reason slick as oil
All measure of trust is but a spark
From the mountain of our crumbling toil.