in thirty seconds,
some seventeen thousands dead,
thousands men injured,
and half a million homeless
unlimited God power!!
A river of rocks
Tumbling from mountain top peaks
Crashing, crunching, covering
What caused them to roll?
Perhaps, it was nature's call
On the rector scale- an eight
Church Christchurch once torn by earthquakes rugged rips
Where satin dark descends on sandy shores
Sweet lady of the nighttime skies and dawn
Still holds the broken dreams that men despise
Yet from the shadows dawn of broken time
The lady starts to grow again in form
New buildings climb on what was the broken past
New dreams begin to grow from broken hearts
The lady of the night still shows the pain
Some buildings still hold scars of broken pain
Those with wealth can dance upon her shores
Well others sleep on roads of broken nights
With empty pockets cold and shivered plight
For both may see a different vivid dream
A necklace of the stars is seen by some
Well others live with empty stomachs hum
I hope one day the love will grow to action
The people that have money will invest
Creating jobs for everyone is best
I love the trees that line your rivers banks
The kindness of some hearts still have my thanks
shocking
tremors,
rock earth.
shake land.
plates drift
rocks skid
panic.
seismic
waves beat,
land quakes,
ground breaks
rupture
fissure
havoc.
buildings
crumble
heart pounds
fear rules
body
trembles
turmoil.
rubble
surrounds
many
injured
many
are dead
hearts boil.
earthquake shakes the ground
the ocean boils and hisses
tsunami threatens
Flashbulb moment in the black
Everyone frozen in a truth attack
You learn who justifies means from ends
You learn your enemies and your friends.
You look for an anchor in a bible psalm
But there's chaos in your brain from blast of this bomb
A moment that divides the right from the wrong
A moment not imagined in ancient song.
(chorus)
Flashbulb night, a sudden flame,
You looked at the light: never be the same.
You had assumptions, you thought you knew
Now you realize you didn't have a clue
A whole class of behavior you can't explain
Its time to jump off that runaway train.
The masks are off, disillusion starts
You’re so lonely now, when the curtain parts.
A fracture line through your heart
The rift widens, you must restart.
For one man it was a murder of a friend
For some a hero exposed, or a vicious trend
They began to question all they were taught
Forced on a new path, because truth they sought.
Some slight movement of the bed,
At night,
And I suddenly become alert;
Is it shaking?
Is it an earthquake?
I stop and stare,
But nothing moves anymore;
It might have been an illusive perception,
Or I have caused the movement
Of the bed;
I have never had
These kind of perceptions,
In my head before.
But we have had two earthquakes.
And even though,
The earthquakes have ended.
Memory remains;
Memory never leaves you;
two hundred tremors
in forty eight hour span
greece is on notice
Oddly, I had no news on, at all today,
I just heard about your city’s early morning’s sway!
Having lived through earthquakes, I know that fear…
You wait for those afterschocks, that’s so very clear!
Keep flashlights and all electronics charged.
God watches over you, he is your best guard!
I do remeber building swaying to and fro.
But there really was no place at all to go.
And when an afterschock comes in the night,
It rolls you in bed, from left to your right
From your NoCal neighbor.
Love and Prayers, gear piets!
Pangie
9/12/2024
@ Panagiota Romios
Last night the dream was this
We were more solid than possible
we sensed the huge solid planet beneath us shake us
we were falling hard
And someone said
The universe is being destroyed.
As i walk along the pavement
The ground is a kind of wavy tarmac
And my legs threaten to buckle.
Soon,my children
Sooon........
“It’s not a matter of if, but when.”
Dr. Lawrence Hayes in Brad Peyton's movie: San Andreas
San Andreas' carnage sickens
the plot thickens
to higher stakes
than mere earthquakes
relationships split wide-open
wondering when
knowing the past
the end forecast
disease, divorce, death, denial
earth's life trials
how can one cope?
God’s grace brings hope
earthquakes and fissures
routinely affect politics and relationships
as they act on the earth's crust
tectonic plates clash in subduction zones
they separate at divergent boundaries
a quake strikes
will I engage or detach?
wisdom will prevail
I will not be smashed or fall between the cracks
Late in the morning, we had a surprise -
An earthquake decided to hit.
Our son’s house, for maybe 10 seconds or so,
Was shaking and more than a bit.
Around here, this isn’t a typical thing
So friends either texted or called.
Did you feel the earthquake? We did or we heard…
People startled or somewhat enthralled.
Of course, it was minor so damage was nil
And we all could be rather blasé,
But I’d hate to be living where major quakes strike
As you watch all you own swept away.
middle of night
slight shake a little rumble
Ohio earthquake
as soul of bavira prince went to rest, earthquake trembled entire land.
October 12/2023
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