Dust & Ash
Meteors falling from the sky
like stars sparkling in the night.
The volcano’s dust forms
below Iceland’s clouds.
Life stops.
Pilots stand.
Air traffic is discontent,
as the volatile atmosphere erupts.
Through the blocking of the sun,
volcanic ash plumes.
The earth will be cool
for a year or two.
A washout will come.
Iceland’s dust and ash – gone.
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*About This Poem: Volcanic ash plume from Cleveland Volcano, located on Chuginadak
Island in the Aleutian Island Chain off Alaska. NASA image taken by Jeff Williams,
Flight Engineer, from the International Space Station. Please view @
http://geology.com/articles/volcanic-ash.shtml.
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Sponsor: nette onclaud
Contest Name: A NIGHT SKY
User Name: Verlena S. Walker
Nom De Plume: Oblivion Dark Sunshine
Date of Entry: March 20, 2014
Date Written: March 20, 2014
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The Saddest Landscape (POEM)Contest
Sponsor: SKAT A
User Name: Verlena S. Walker
Nom De Plume: Oblivion Dark Sunshine
Date of Entry: March 22, 2014
Date Written: March 20, 2014
Form,
Idealized form,
whichever kind you are,
building, person, painting, landscape, poem;
touches archetypes in me
Archetypes,
thank God, are funny things.
They are not usual life.
Not mundane.
They bring--
life out of me;
joy out of me;
pleasure out to me.
I can’t help but smile
and my belly warms up inside
and I live next to pleasure for a moment
or a while.
2013
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