Lost Natural Disasters Poems

You sit there year after year looking at me as if you don’t care, you sit there picking your nose and smelling your polished toes,...

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it was Spring 2023 that my city of Ottawa, Canada
      was hit by floods
we had so much rain that the...

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Torrential rain falls
Rivers swell, bursting their banks
Floods consume the land

Houses submerged deep
Anguished cries of lost homes rise
Water, ruthless foe

Nature's wrath unleashed
Mighty force engulfs all life
Hope...

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Oh Sleepless night oh Glory be
The stealth of nature burdens thee
As winter washes o'er the stones
Your cold caress doth sear my bones
An unfurled sail on...

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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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the children wait on the shore
eyes fastened to the horizon
behind them stand the women
with a gaze far more serious
all impervious to rain and wind
the hurricane...

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Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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You were the calm before the storm
or maybe I was stuck in the eye
everything looked so beautiful,
did I really have to try?

You flew in like...

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Harken my angel, pray for me
Your love will pull me through
As I lay here under burning debris
After being torn from my crew

I know that when...

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If that’s a heartache you’re drinking
Then to my way of thinking
You shouldn’t drink it alone
Mind if I sit with you, baby
Between the buts and the...

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“Blizzard”

Thundering down the valleys 
Tearing across the plains 
Ten thousand steel horses  
Their nostrils spitting steam       
Bodies tense...

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 END OF TIME

Smile
tormented, tear stained
blood flowing down the streets
to forever drift
end of time
Jesus is yet still coming here
a flickering candle on the table, a...

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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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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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The Earth, Are you dangerous?
I'm hearing awful sounds everywhere.
I'm scared; will you kill me too?
Why I'm hearing news of disaster?

I'm the earth; I don't try...

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