Ships rode by ghosts "The clouds parted
like the pursed lips of desire".
Rains then poured out
like held-back tears of anger,
shedding emotions from the sky
like a recently heartbroken damsel.
The raindrops beat on the rusty roof—
a drum that only children could dance to.
But they danced not in the house,
but right there...
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Categories:
anger, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
THE SOUND OF SILENCEAfter the storm,
everything was still—
but not peaceful.
Just... wrong.
Shingles scattered like leaves.
Walls torn open
like someone needed to look inside.
A tricycle, flipped over.
Bent.
One wheel spun, slow.
It kept going
like it didn’t notice the end of the world.
A child sat near the wreckage.
Barefoot.
Silent.
Mouth open—but no sound.
I watched.
Wanted to speak.
But silence had teeth.
And it bit down hard....
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Categories:
angst, natural disasters, silence,
Form: Lyric
After The Thunder
The sky a disruptive horizon
creating havoc in calm of evening
when electric thunder suddenly booms
without notice from neutral evening.
The shrill of invasive pyrotechnics
frighten animals and children
in their near hour of slumber.
Flickers of quiet ensues against
restless distress of the neighborhood.
Clouds begin to roll in steady flow,
that after the thunder, kids devour
pleasant bowls...
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Categories:
natural disasters,
Form: Light Verse
Lava vs IceSomewhere up above a mountain
Was the volcano to maintain
Lava voice as hot as anger
It seemed nothing but a danger
For away down the valley
Was a frozen lake
I was spitting so one could take
Stream thought only one was jelly
Fish to go deeper than deeper
Lava ran to valley
It was...
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Categories:
natural disasters, character, emotions, future, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Hairy Morning
Oh, my gosh, I’m freaking and feel such dread.
What the hay is this nonsense on my head?
I can’t go to work, can't enter the office!
I will be seen, visible to peers and bosses,
be the fool who provided entertaiment gossip.
God, please, send help, I am stress-nauseous.
I do not care about appearing faultless,
but I'd...
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Categories:
natural disasters, color, cry, fear, giggle,
Form: Other
Categories:
environment, imagery, natural disasters,
Form: Haiku
Frozen Side of The SunTurning over in a ruffled bed,
stark red numbers sear 4 a.m. into bloodshot corneas.
Nothing but darkness creeps through threadbare curtains, frozen in place.
A desolate silence becomes deafening, as birdsong no longer crescendos—
what would have been the breaking of dawn.
It's been six years now since our brightest star was thrown out of orbit,
exposing the frozen side...
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Categories:
dark, gothic, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Earth UndoneMountains made of waves
tore the flesh from Mother Earth —
flayed and flooding.
The mud grieves beneath her,
clogged with stagnant saline.
She used to breathe — rivers ran wild and free,
forests stood tall and proud.
For she was once lush —
verdant skin stretched over a trembling core,
veins of sapphire seas pulsing with breath.
But we carved into her with teeth...
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Categories:
natural disasters, earth, environment, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
I Was Homeless Christmas 2003!It was cold and freezing in the city of Denver.
A day in my life I will always remember.
The sound of sirens wailing all around.
The police had gathered near a body on the ground.
A man with no home froze there during the night.
It filled me with sadness to behold such a...
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Categories:
natural disasters, 11th grade, blessing, depression,
Form: Rhyme
An example of understatementWhat if the orbiting earth were to unexpectedly run into a brick wall
speeding through the galaxy one night in the middle of Fall?
Can you imagine the sounds of death, destruction, and annihilation
as Christchurch, New Zealand, crashes into the Atlanta Metro bus station?
I don’t think that that would be any fun ~ at all!
Bonus poem
She unexpectedly...
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Categories:
dark, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Light Verse
Old Tree
Categories:
natural disasters, storm, weather,
Form: Haiku
Save them that you hurt by hurting the worldYou’ll kill your only dog because you don’t remember the sound of a bullet like him.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
You’ll fear a never coming fire after you hear your cousin burnt alive and hide from the smoke you don’t inhale.
The sea rises
The sea consumes
The sea doesn’t give back
When you looked...
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Categories:
earth, environment, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
A singular Drop; That's All There WasI gaze upon an opaque silver sky,
Descending dewdrops, developing above the mustache maw.
Ascending the nape to taste cherubim cry,
Permeating petrichor, pervade the nasal in auspicious awe.
Palpable pain of tactile taps
Kissing canker sores and rainstorm rush.
Radically rampaging, for its rapid relapse
Rain, it's infinite, swirling fervor flush
To drown by an inundated impound,
A vehement, vicious, void that immersed,
Wandering...
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Categories:
natural disasters, 11th grade, emotions, environment,
Form: Sonnet
Ranch hand.
oh yeah
i'm get'n pickled
just think'n 'bout it
thuh nymph lean'd back
'gainst thuh fence post
her flannel
...
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Categories:
allusion, irony, natural disasters,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Morning AfterThe floodwaters shimmer with opalescence in the morning sun
The torrential rain finally comes to a halt
In the stillness of it all floats the body of the banker’s son
Six feet above-ground, his grave on the asphalt
Birds stir cautiously above in the stripped-down trees
Their intertwining voices weaving a fragile song
A tattered American flag wavers in the cool...
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Categories:
natural disasters, birth, earth, environment, natural
Form: Rhyme
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