Devastation Poems - Poems about Devastation

The town, ripped up like a carpet—flung to the side like a broken leg. In its scar the soldiers marched. Chanted for a ruler who ate in his highchair while he penned in their death warrants. Overhead birds of death floated, their naked beaks dying for flesh. It’s cold, so cold a little brown mole...

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She lost her home She lost her ‘stuff’ She lost heart – but was still tough. When all was said and done, She reached out to the Son - She knew some tears and fears But love would sing into her ears. While night seemed so hard, Hope shined through her lifeguard. She lost her home She lost her ‘stuff’ She lost heart – but remained...

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Long after the lively spring came quite early... every narrow hill's path laid in solemn tranquility, faint footprints on solid ground under black booths smeared with stains by damaged, leaking roofs. It took longer to reach the hilltop being forced to halt before a fallen tree toppled down by the hurricane Milton: can Nature be as violent as man's mad temperament? A...

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Tears keep falling, My feelings, sprawling The linemen, their calling… Winds were still blowing, My heart and soul, knowing, Despite the storm, there’s flowing… Love beyond what I can conceive, Love that comforts those who grieve, Love that lasts so I believe… Each lineman has amazing drive. His heart, his soul – made to survive, Residents so thankful, power he’ll revive. The donations, they just keep...

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They interviewed the artist inside of her large blueprint mansion. At one point she criticized America for being overtly materialistic. Her painting studio alone, was large enough to house half a dozen desperados... but instead, it harbored dozens of giant unsold paintings. I was amazed by how bright a person could be but at the same time completely blind to their...

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he woke in the bowels of destruction. unsure of where he was or what had happened. Had he slept through a world war? There was absolute devastation; an entire city was destroyed. Am I still in New York? He wondered. He listened for the sounds of taxis, buses, and people. There was nothing. The silence was bothersome, and frightening. He did not...

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monoku 4 none dance in rainshowers where tears flood the streets...

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My love has fled his earthly body he slipped away in the night and of course it's him I long to talk to to make everything seem right We only had five months of reconnecting but it changed our worlds outright I know its the happiest I have been in my life and he told me it was the same for him He...

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Death to all the angels, Death in the crying sky. The eyes of hungry babies probe us. They plead with us in abject terror. In ghettoized Gaza, No mother and child will sleep, Bombed as they weep, They are the fish in a barrel. This is collective punishment Of all the guilty infants. All the guilty Palestinians will be cleansed, They will be purged in reprisal. The...

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Damian Stood at the bottom of the Staircase and Yelled "come on Mallory Delilah we're waiting. Let's be About this." This shopping time there was even More family Members indulging In The food shopping fiasco. Molly and Dolly came down stairs In a hurry, "Don't abandon the cooks!" We are here!" Dolly was excited and Salacious delighted. They were on The road...

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The empty swing swings gently in the gentle breeze that wafts across the empty playground park. The dust in the foot-pans beneath the swings lifts up in the breeze, swirls and curls in a spiral willy-nilly, willy-willy. The town has all but died. A tardy few die-hard's remain, as they have no where else to go. The salty groundwater, which rose up in the soil due to over zealous irrigation,...

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Cesspit The shovelling soldiers are sent off to war To dig latrines so their soldier brethren can Not in peace but to empty their guts between fights Ukrainians have other ideas they want to kill them all Dead soldiers and hole diggers means more Russians Who can no longer fight or hurt innocent Ukrainians How many Ivan cesspit spade...

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she announces herself days ahead yet none of us are prepared she tears us up and spits us out uncaringly smashes and bashes us our lives will never be the same none of us were prepared even those who thought they were devastation arrived with a fury and a flurry...

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air depression in ocean thick cloud sucked by low pressure… moisture billows up hurricane is born eye follows blindly the track … land lacerated by fall storm surge flattens things on way flood drowns the ruins… devastation batters lives ______________ December 12, 2022 Syllable count : 775, 577, 757 (HMS) Contest : Triple New Charlieku Sponsored by : Charles Messina...

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deep darkness descends damaging distant deserts drought destroys dry dunes Written June 28, 2022 POEM OF THE DAY Poetry Soup June 30, 2022...

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