Summer Natural Disasters Poems

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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summer’s scorching heat
     leaves curl up burnt to a crisp
          the tree’s...

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Just when life was getting back to normal. 
We get smacked with another load of bull. 
It dragged us in with strong magnetic pull. 
Removing...

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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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Aftermath

You found me naked and alone
You found me unprotected
You fed upon me, your unwilling and unwitting victim
You fed upon me, your unwilling and unwitting prey
You...

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For what is the nature of the beast
That comes with fiery breath to steal the feast
And then, upon the morrow, floods the fields
Thus rotting on...

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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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Moving through the day
In a blister of heat,
Sparks seem to spray
And bounce off the street.

Shadows are twice as black!
The windows sparkle gold.
The earth seems about...

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Davenport Tomorrow
by Michael R. Burch

Davenport tomorrow ...
all the trees stand stark-naked in the sun.

Now it is always summer
and the bees buzz in cesspools,
adapted to a...

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Waking up in threat
Dealing with the mighty heat,
let me take a breathe....

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Ivy has overtaken Columbus Hall
The classrooms on the east side are in shadows
No one can peek out or see the sky from those classrooms
for the...

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As We Melt

Heat
Fills
The world
And Summer
Becomes Forever
Everywhere, all the time;
Ice turning into a thing just fondly remembered,
A dream of blue and white now only seen in...

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The Night Glenfell

         A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air  
   ...

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