Midnight storns, trees like toys, fall.
Cars, houses, so crushed.
Where to hide?
1/9/2023
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Poem Fom ……Qiunzaine
Line 1……7 syllables……describes scene
Line 2……5 syllables……emotive expression
Line 3……3 syllables……asks a question
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Categories:
evacuations, imagery, rain, storm, weather,
Form: Other
The kids are just fine
On this Wednesday eve
Our lives intertwine
Until one takes leave
On this Wednesday eve
We huddle in the waste
Until one takes leave
From this bombed-out place
They’re readied for school
Packed up for the day
Ballet class in tule
Then we hurry away
Packed up for the day
The evacuations begin
Then we hurry away
From the siren’s din
Distraught by expectations
Life’s daily demands
Guiding child’s aspirations
Mold their lives in our hands
Life’s daily demands
From missiles, we flee
Mold lives in our hands
As we dodge the debris
We discuss the whole day
Watch the news, sip our wine
In lands far away
We witness war’s crimes
Huddled in lost places
We assess the whole day
Do they hear us, or see us, or know us
In lands far away?
Categories:
evacuations, children, parents, perspective, violence,
Form: Pantoum
AT THE DUNG DINERS’ CLUB-
Dung beetles them there beetles ;
That feed on feces;
Some species of dung beetles;
Ooh! Yum just love that feces from all the species;
Can bury dung 250 times their own mass;
In one night those dungs love to not pass;
Also known as rollers, roll dung into round balls,
Which are used as a food source please pass the more;
Or breeding chambers;
Animal dung used for fertilizing lands and lawns so bitter;
Dung muck droppings, ordure guano;
Cowpats, cow chips, horse apples;
Compost, excrement, mulch maul
Buffalo chips, cow chips, Heee haw!
Cow plop's, meadow muffins, BM, Oh? crap;
Defecation, discharge;
Excrement, fecal matter, waste;
Feces feculence flux
Go to the bathroom, stool, number two
Poop the night soil
Swwhh,! ooh the airs so fowl
Egesta evacuations body waste
Says them there dung beetles give it a taste
Guess them dung is dung eating ya? Make haste(Oooh yum yah!)
7/19/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
DEADICATED VERSE TO Jan Allison AT THE DUNG DINERS CLUB
Categories:
evacuations, analogy, appreciation, food, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Today winds at 20 miles per hour
The temperature is 90
no electricity no power
Santa Cruz Halloween costumes will be about
the Joker and surfing
Wild fires red and orange, windy and smoky
San Francisco schools are closing
Muir Woods blackened as wood is disappearing
San Diego in the hills have evacuations
Tornado Warnings for Mobile, AL
the basement shutters in a storm rotation
New Orleans severe rains and flash floods
where jazz music and instruments are floating
An Arctic cold front sweeps through the north
friends fighting breathing in Dakota
aware of the potential for pneumonia
And the snow storms from the skies
We are back to the times when mankind and wildlife
fought for food and shelter as even technology fails
White sharks are roaming at Rio Del Mar
at 90 in October the living bay waters are hot
I share my peanuts and water in the heat of the 90s
but I notice that the squirrels and crows do not
Categories:
evacuations, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Hurricane Irma is barreling down with its monster storm,
Churning 185 mile an hour winds that have eerily formed.
The U.S. is afraid what it will do when it makes landfall.
Unfortunately forecasters can’t make the exact call.
Floridians are buying generators and boarding up their homes…
There’s no telling where this catastrophic storm will roam.
This hurricane is unprecedented and a clear danger.
After Hurricane Harvey, hurricane devastation is no stranger.
A Cat five storm is 500 times stronger than a Cat One.
Floridians, it’s time to secure your families and run.
The evacuations have begun… the traffic will be massive.
If you are in the storm’s path, you can’t afford to remain passive.
9/5/17
Hurricanes Contest
Julie Rodeheaver sponsor
~Awarded 3rd Place~
Categories:
evacuations, natural disasters, scary, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Bio Mass.
I have had an intimate connection with effluence or
to use a more proper word, **** of the animal kind
I could by the aroma alone know which animal had
passed the track. Most animal dung smell is sweet
except dogs they have lived so long amongst us they
even crap likes us, but dogs love their own excrement
so much they even eat it. Horses` evacuations are like
rare wine and you promise yourself to buy a horse
when you can buy a bigger garden or vines that
have been fertilised by foals’ morning pee. Having had
your hands in the muck nothing can offend you.
Categories:
evacuations, allusion, body, farm,
Form: Burlesque
Morning conversation
I get up first in the morning
Coming back to bed my wife ask
Did you?
“No, I need coffee first”
My wife gets up coming back
I ask “Did you?”
“No”
We are talking about evacuations
A perk when it is regular,
And you’re a pensioner.
Categories:
evacuations, humor,
Form: Bio
They’ve closed the schools, they’ve stopped the trains;
They’ve shuttered up the gym.
Evacuations are in place;
The outlook’s kind of grim.
The stores are mobbed, the traffic light,
The grills all brought inside.
The TV stations tell us
Readiness should be our guide.
With bottled water on the shelf
And AA’s up to date,
We gaze out windows, watch the wind
And warily, we wait.
Categories:
evacuations, life, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Human Squander
Cold day on my walk I needed to pee, it happens often
when you are old, but there were ants about I couldn’t
pee on them, lowly as they might be they are still living
things and one has to show respect; the unspoken logic
of dignity. But not all human evacuations are wasteful,
as a child on the farm we used human waste fertilize
potatoes and carrots field and reaped great abundance
from a grateful soil. But I did pee up against an olive tree
a pale looking tree that needed all the help it could get.
Self-respect is vital it is an unwritten law and those who
breaks lose their humanity the thin line between man
and beast, I think it is more worthy to chop a man’s head
off then urinate on his corps; as death self perpetuating
and does not help to accentuate to point.
Categories:
evacuations, satire,
Form: Blank verse
An active storm forecast for Hurricane Season
Sandbags, evacuations can save people’s lives
But offshore in black water a new threat now thrives
Inland states may suffer too, here’s the reason
Storms gain power in Gulf seas betrayed by treason
Soaking up dark sea’s moisture, such power derives
Will tropical cyclones carry black rain like knives
Giving inland farm crops, city streets a greasin’
The man-made drilling well still spews oil that floats
But the clouds of great storms may be darker this year
Murky sea water now lies in the Gulf storms’ path
Ma Nature has an aerial view as she gloats
Remains of dinosaurs fill hurricanes with fear
Bitter justice abounds in a defiled earth’s wrath
Categories:
evacuations, natural disasterswater, may, power,
Form: Italian Sonnet