Pain Natural Disasters Poems

Pictures of life are so blurry looking through the lens of a wet pane
Wind fills it with all its fury heavy; driving me today a...

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From a comet’s tail, like pepper on a meal
sprinkling down on the land
upon the earth, the contagious death
the cleansing of God’s hand

Genocide made, from a...

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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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my tears are falling 
calling me through the sounds of rain
broken heart aching 
winching from all the pain
echoing inside etched ears 

"sound the alarm sweet...

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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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What is born in the thermals of a barren land
A spiral of destruction sublime

(I feel its power seeping into the ground)

Across the seas, it comes...

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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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She has a pair of subtle eyes to brood in forlorn,
the vile tale of heart rending cacophonic dissolution.
Those eyes were meek, never crude
to yearn the...

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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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DO YOU CARE
Cinema skies displaying cosmetic lies,
a planet that's a glow with a satellite show.
Hearing the hums of electromagnetic drums.
Sea the oceans cry, and rivers...

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we're going all the way down the road of fate      
Well-being depends on a collective plate.  
Our souls are...

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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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There are moments of pain when my heart string plays
music on the distant shores, when the heavens meet
below the deck and the rivers started to...

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The silence of time passing goes unnoticed
in the confusion of the moment
As I hear the internal clock of frustration
tic through the last vestige of reality
fought...

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