Lyric Natural Disasters Poems

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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Looking out of my window at a world that cries with grief
Mothers Fathers, and children shuffle by
Mouths are covered, eyes are blinded, do they grimace...

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If you have have a problem me celebrating holidays
Just say so
The way you going about it twice this year makes you a btch tho.
I'm not...

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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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When magma begins to flow
The wise begins to build bridges,
And construct channels and dams
That the god of magma
may be worshiped

When epidemics begin to rehearse 
the...

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Never stand behind a hippo!
Never stand behind a hippo!
Never stand behind a hippo!
Projectile diarrhea!...

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Busy piazza, 
Amidst angry sun
And cacophonous sounds such as,
"pipipi peepee" and "bonanza! bonanza!!",
Calling all to answer,
Nagging market women,
Causing palaver.
Pedestrians roaming.
Every man to his own
Yet who...

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The day starts out with sun in the sky.
Kids all around playing outside.
Everything seems perfect and calm.
Next thing you know the storm is on.
It comes...

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Natural Disaster

You have the compassion of a blizzard and the patience of an avalanche
Your derision trickles like a monsoon.
You drown me in disdain.
Flooded by your...

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January twelfth two thousand and ten
   witnessed near annihilation and destruction 
   of the Haitian nation
whereby countless/ nameless individuals 
 ...

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*Beasts of burden*

Then I couldn't grapple the hand
that held onto what I hinged upon
Never 'ld, instead I reached for its head
Mortal-minded, neither soldier nor lord
or...

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*Beasts of burden*

Then I couldn't grapple the hand
that held onto what I hinged upon
Never 'ld, instead I reached for its head
Mortal-minded, neither soldier nor lord
or...

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Rainbow in a hurricane.


Living life like a, hurricane and I,
Can’t explain why I chase loves holy grail and I;
I’ve got to try harder, to get...

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I can just see the clouds riding along the wind
breaking formation, watch a tornado spin 
Lifting up houses, then throwing them down
destroying each structure, there...

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The day is coming alas
A coming storm rolling in fast
Darker than any cloud over the cast

When day turns to everlasting night
Will we be forced into...

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