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Danie Franklin
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since 2005-12-05

Posts 68

0 posted 2005-12-05 01:27 PM

The winds they said were coming,
It's a category five,
Everyone started running.
We wondered if we'd make it out alive.

Then the winds started blowin'
The streets were full,
the rafters started howling.
With the tearing winds taking their toll.

Everythings in the water,
Now that the wind is dying down,
The drapes are all a tatter.I wonder if we'll be found.

I realize its really quiet,
Then I start to look around,
I call for someone,
And see the trees are all downed,
The house its all but gone.
There's mo one here I'm all alone.

I call again and all I hear,
Is the water rushing through,
Where is everyone,
how can this be true?
Then I see there is a helicopter here
I'm saved, they're here to save me.

But wait where's everyone,
There is an officer, maybe she will find them
She asks me my name,
All I can say is where are they?
"Who?" she said, and how old are you?
I'm twelve with no mom or dad.

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2005-12-05 01:34 PM

Danie

If this is a true to life poem...how frightening it must have been to find yourself alone in the aftermath of Katrina. You have written well of how it feels and it frightened me, so I'm sure that it would a 12 year old. Welcome to Passions...I look forward to reading more of your poetry.

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

2 posted 2005-12-05 01:44 PM

Welcome to Pip and please check your email for a special greeting!

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2005-12-05 01:49 PM

Hello Danie and welcome to Passions.
Anyone caught in Katrina's path must have been terrified.
And even moreso for a young person like yourself.
You caught the fear very well in your first post.
Please enjoy your time here with us.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~Let peace begin with me...

Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

4 posted 2005-12-05 01:50 PM

Danie...Welcome to Passions, I hope you stay and share your poetry with us for a very long time.

This poem really touched my heart and I can't imagine how terrified you were if this really happenned to you...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2005-12-05 04:24 PM

HiDanie~
Thanks for the thoughtful and lovely email~
WELCOME to PiP ..... this is a touching write and having seen your other post about this one .... we are even more touched~

Check your email ...~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*No matter what I search for ...
let me know when it is LOVE that I find*~ <))><

Email - noles1@totcon.com

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2005-12-05 05:45 PM

Welcome to Passions.
Your first post is a real heartfelt write, and while I am happy it isn't your own personal experience, I am very sad for the young man who lost his parents, and for all the others who lost so much in Katrina's devastation.
I look forward to more from your obviously sensitive heartbeat pen.

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

7 posted 2005-12-05 06:31 PM

Nice writing...James

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