Best Natural Disastersgod Poems
Reporting devastation
Even hardened newsmen cry.
We watch in consternation
As the weak among them die.
As each new revelation
Brings more horror to our eyes,
We share the sheer elation
Of brave rescues from the skies.
There are more heroes than villains
In this drama taking place;
In the worst natural disaster
That we’ve ever had to face.
They thought they were alone until
The ripple then the roar
Of help poured in around them
Lifting them to drier shore.
May God look down in favor
At the fortitude of man
As they vow they will reclaim them
Their loved cities and their land.
Survivors will have stories
For grandchildren yet to be
Of beating Mother Nature
Sending her back to the sea.
Though we may be bystanders
To their terror and their pain,
We’ll share the pride of victory
When they build their lives again.
As we tender love and prayers and hope
And all the help we can,
May it be enough to build their trust
In Self and God and Man.
By: Joyce Johnson
For Linda-Marie's contest won 9th place
I don’t know how to pray
When everyday is the same
How many times do I lift my soul
To tell you of the thousands of your children
Dead
Missing
Homeless
My bleeding brain, rubbed raw from hours of pleading is resigned, capitulated, ready to say
God bless everyone
And have done.
You know what bless means.
You know who everyone is.
God bless everyone
God bless Japan.
God bless the babies crying in crowded shelters
And the mothers trying to quiet them.
God bless the fathers struggling to go on
And the children who play in the dirt and sleep in the dark.
God bless Japan.
Bless the workers
Looking in the rubble for breathing corpses
Breathing your love into the silence.
God bless the ones stopping the leak
Not knowing which button to push
Which cord to cut
Which puddles spell death.
God bless everyone who turns out a light.
Those leaving, and bless those who stay
With fear streaking silently down their cheeks.
God bless everyone trying to remember
And those trying to forget.
God bless them as the scan lists of names
And squeeze their broken hearts back in proud, unbreakable spirits.
God bless everyone.
God bless Japan.