Christchurch Earthquakes Quake
My gaze lowers building to the ground
Multilayers empty landscapes, graffiti, murals.
Past buildings merge into present car parks.
I currently buy my daughters shoes here in this
empty section. We eat here at this lovely restaurant, this fenced off parking rubble. I breakdown and cry outside the WINZ building after inhumane dysfunctional treatment. At least that building
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Categories:
christchurch, natural disasters, surreal, world,
Form: Free verse
Christchurch Earthquake Live Update 2011
We don't know the names of the dead.
Our friends that are missing
We hope have fled.
We're far away from our quaky home
With internet, email and skype to roam
Grateful now for each voice we hear
For each life we hold so dear.
We don't know
when we go home
whether we will find a place to roam
that vaguely resembles
what we used
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Categories:
christchurch, history, international, world,
Form: Free verse
The Death of Three Sisters
The death of three sisters
Three sisters sadly fell. At different times they died,
though in them countless millions stood and worshipped side by side.
Though none of good will wished them ill yet evil still was found
and spirey towers once touching skies came crashing to the ground.
Fallen, fallen were their stones, found fallen was
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Categories:
christchurch, city, death, evil, extended
Form: Rhyme
A Cowards Will
I gift to you this world my child
Alas its’ troubles I can’t tame
Others efforts I have reviled
On judgement day I’ll face the same.
I’ve seen the mosque where people weep
At times Christs’ church rocked to the core
and God’s chosen placed in trenches deep
Watched peace and love hijacked for war.
Cowards choose to say they’ve failed
So do
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Categories:
christchurch, christian, hope, islamic, jewish,
Form: Sonnet
Christmas At Christchurch
I feel translucent
a man of marble skin
as if dreaming my motions
every step a tread in water
each reach of my hand
a ghost grip touches
but nothing holds and yet
I clutch these stones and
iron spear barricades
as a sea-snail would the bedrock
for this is my folly
to hug close the
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Categories:
christchurch, depression, grief, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Christmas At Christchurch
I feel translucent
a man of marble skin
as if dreaming my motions
every step a tread in water
each reach of my hand
a ghost grip touches
but nothing holds and yet
I clutch these stones and
iron spear barricades
as a sea-snail would the bedrock
for this is my folly
to hug close the
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Categories:
christchurch, ireland, lonely, poverty, sorrow,
Form: Free verse