Loss Natural Disasters Poems

Back in the days
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In 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...

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I have watched tree-giants 
in deep forest-cathedrals
declare glory, speak of heaven
in sanctuaries where birds rejoice 
between branches 
under leafy-windows  
– green and gold. 
I...

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To lose someone of whom u care 
The loss the grief the utter despair
Bereavement the feeling of nothingness
Can also seem like a cyclone of pain...

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Sea calm,
Crew slept,
Dark side,
Sea kept,
Tide raced,
Waves crept,
Crew woke,
Sails prepped,
Coiled spring,
Waves leapt,
Overboard,
Crew swept,
Left behind,
They wept.

For the sea has no respect
For the nautically inept …...

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I look up into the sky I see it,
Getting darker and darker,
In those Oklahoma skies.
That feeling never goes away of,
The past memories of destruction, 
Pain...

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Springing from the sprawling capital of Central china,
A fatal and vulnerable pandemic named Corona,
So toxic that it can't be even cured with Cinchona,
Clueless and Baffled...

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We Have Only Ourselves To Blame  


The way we live now seems barely the same,
Enduring one ecological disaster after another.
It’s obvious we have only...

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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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Let's convene and intervene,
The misdeeds of Covid 19,
I wish for a time machine.

Nothing could've stopped our daily routine,
Had we foreseen  this deadly scheme.
We'd hold...

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Poems about the Coronavirus II


This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Winter awakens all my care
as leafless...

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American citizens in “bread-lines” to get little boxes of food. How desperate do you have to be to join that line? The sad, generous, little...

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Each day she sat 
upon her nest
lovingly nurturing
her unborn chicks
in burning sunshine
she gasped for air
her dedication 
beyond compare 

Yesterday 
a gale ~ a gust 
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There is an ominous report in our land,
A shroud of disease heavy looms over us,
We’ve been anaesthetized and limp hangs our hands,
No one can escape...

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Mis En Place'
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