Forgiveness Natural Disasters Poems

The Underworld 

There is a path
that leads to the bridge. 
Well, not exactly. 
It leads under it. 
Why would anyone want to go that way?...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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In this craziest time
in mid summer,
 
Let’s say…

(Owl, the craziest, 
laziest, the oldest,
begins his sonorous hoot;
the others: old, young, men
and women,  
with their left...

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The Calling

Hear the angels sing!
(Glorious trumpets...
start low in the distance, 
and gain in ever-increasing volumes... 
souls, voices...)

Here the angels sing! 
(Racing across the heavens...
in and...

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Slipping

What is expected
from perfection?
Do your best,
and none can find fault. 
The level of your challenge, 
needs to be higher,
than your attainable goal. 

Help others rise...

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My Friend

We spoke, up until the last, 
You, and I and HIM…

The pain was hard, cruel and mean.
You were tired… (whispered, "that was okay"…)

I told...

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Not So Precious Moments

They call
these nameless voices
introduced by
insipient rings
droning on
their piercing voices
shattering the moment.

They insist
on speaking breathlessly
running past the
comma’s
hurdling the
periods
racing toward
some distant goal.

Oblivious to
barking dogs
screaming...

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(Ode to Storm Sandy)


Winter storms and howling winds, 
Cutting paths to clear its way.
Angry ocean waves crashing on shore,
Crumbling structures along its path.

Wonder where this...

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Oh walker’s will and lander’s way…
Did not we grow in love’s dismay?
while wandering by the garden path
that led us to “the grapes of Wrath”
but also...

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And the storm calls to me in ways you'll never understand
A gentle call that urges my soul forth
The lighting guiding a path for my feet...

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Flames roared through the nights sky. 
A glimpse of blue still protruded through the flames. 
The heat warmed the mortals below. 
They believed that this...

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What Happened

Life is all about corruption, deception, and havoc, which now is often mistaken for blood shot, lying in the streets of the innocent, why...

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When Good Of "EVIL," Run You Down, Remember 
What Doesn't "KILL YOU," Only Makes You, 
STRONGER, *Yes* Faith Can Break, But Our 
Strength Of Heart...

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Speckled Mist
 Beautiful colors, magnificent swirls
 Large enough to consume our world
 Then as if connected to an invisible cord
 All become stiff as an...

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The Apparition
I saw a man kneeling beside the dead body Gadhafi 
with a smirk on his face holding thumbs up… eleven 
months later he was...

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