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Surreality: NEWHere I am, Shake & Bake in the Far Out West
where they now smoke down and out, their
new front yards...
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Categories:
natural disasters, analogy, appreciation, change, death,
Form: Personification
After the FloodsAfter the floods,
We were left with nothing,
Our homes lay in ruins,
All we had gone leaving us torn.
It was an unprecedented downpour,
Twilight’s gift to us,
Spring was in full swing,
The water level rose unabatedly.
Everything we had worked...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Streets Turned Into Rivers
it was Spring 2023 that my city of Ottawa, Canada
was hit by floods
we had so much rain that the rivers overflowed
...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Aftermath of Flood
Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain,
Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign,
Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day,
As trees bowing to gusting storms; erratically waltz and sway.
Houses naked...
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Categories:
grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Climate ChangeThe charts and graphs of doom are steep.
Our worries pile up in a heap -
Into our brains it starts to seep -
Indeed, we are in trouble deep.
Will he move fast or slowly...
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Categories:
natural disasters, earth, environment, heaven, natural
Form: Rhyme
''Old and New'': Agree
Categories:
natural disasters, destiny, fate, imagery, life,
Form: Verse
After The FloodsCracked castles are in dilemma. whether to fall or stand
Waters whirl like a lake and sea, with a lean sign of land.
Among the carcasses of beasts lie humans, as though mixed
In destiny's destructive force, nature...
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Categories:
life, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
After the FloodThere is a story in the wind
Of Mother Nature's son
And her retribution
For the mad path that he'd begun.
Of all her creatures big and small,
Just one caused her worry.
His intrusion and arrogance
Unleashed a fearful fury.
Usurping...
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Categories:
natural disasters, children, earth day, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Wistful"Wistful/Wishful: sometimes if a word can ever be realized, just an 'alphabet' change will suffice," ... by the Poet
The coconuts have gone awry,
and its fronds they seemed to deny,
their stumped stilts beaches pierce the sky,
an...
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Categories:
natural disasters, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
The Earth Is ChangingThe Earth is shaking,
The world is quaking,
Climate change is taking its toll.
New York city,
A place so pretty,
Now feeling the wrath of Mother Nature's roll.
Floods and fires,
Hurricanes and earthquakes,
The signs are clear, but are we too...
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Categories:
environment, natural disasters, new
Form: Rhyme
The Baltimore Bridge TragedyThe Baltimore Bridge Tragedy
copyright 2024 by jon gutmacher
The Francis Scott Key Bridge
was built with great care
but a ship took that bridge out
it’s no longer there
Over 100,000 tons and fully loaded
three football fields long
crashed into...
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Categories:
natural disasters, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Bringer of DeathFrom a comet’s tail, like pepper on a meal
sprinkling down on the land
upon the earth, the contagious death
the cleansing of God’s hand
Genocide made, from a periodic plague
swelling numbers of the dead
when life departs, with heavy...
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Categories:
natural disasters, dark, death, fate, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Wind
I soar high above the mountains touching every elusive peak
carrying white fluffy clouds on my back, unhinged and free
The parched lands look up to me to quench their thirst and pray
I blow the moisture-laden clouds,...
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Categories:
natural disasters, allusion, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Personification
When the lights go outIn the calm of evening's hush, a storm descends,
Electric charge in the air, a dance of shadows blend.
As I place my dinner in the microwave's gentle hum,
A flicker, a spark, and darkness comes.
The lights go...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme
Burrows Through the HomelandInside of each brain lives a glistening spark ,
Casting spells onto the native red gum bark.
Carvings engrave crucial narratives in mind,
Smell of eucalyptus is solely confined.
An exotic platypus paddles through creeks,
The possum loves the sound...
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Categories:
community, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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