Short Battened Poems

I have battened down the 
saturated hatches
which were dampened
while waiting for
your impending storm.

Intending no harm,
you passed by quietly
and I needn't have
worried none...

yet damage was 
somehow still done
by the force of a gale
that was experienced
by only one....

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The waters rise again and flood the graves.
We named this hurricane, we battened down.
The ocean’s had enough of floating staves;
the waters rise again, and flood the graves
with names. A uniformed policeman saves
a child. Beyond his reach, two others drown.
The waters rise again and flood the graves.
We named this hurricane. We battened down....

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Houses were battened
winds-rattled thunder
some homes were flattened
lives pushed asunder.

Pigs really did fly
through debris-filled air
as a tornado went by
left behind it despair.

Services held for those that were lost
try to pick-up the pieces
ascertain the cost.

With only one wall left
what happens to the leases ?
oh, by the way
have you seen my two nieces ?.


Elizabeth alexander                  28/12/2015
 UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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Weather is poised to slap us into submission.
Threatening with the largest storm in history
To make us aware of her power to destroy
And yet, here on the cusp of history, 
battened down
well stocked
Do I yet love Nature
With all of her wild and beautiful ways.
Her seas have been there for me in my times
Of Loss
And Need
Ever showing me the vastness of her being
She has ever been the Way
In all her present tense
My wilder spirit rises in answer to her challenges
Enhancing my life daily....

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