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Open Poetry #33

Hurricane

ecrivan
Member Elite

since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

0 posted 2004-09-03 02:49 AM

So the mute speak with their hands
and language takes a graphic stand
saying stay indoors for the storm cometh
batter down the shutters and be gone

and when the wind comes and peels back roofs
and the insides of trailer homes are exposed
will lifestyles of coastal people change?
as lifestyles do with heavy anti-smoking
ads
some stop inhaling the smoke
some decide to move inland
to leave the coastal blue for polaroid pic
good habits die hard
so does the need to approach destruction
external or internal
to reach headlines and popularity
to recall there were worse storms
yet we're all deceived by the calm before the storm
the stillness of the waters that wait their wake
when the wind comes to peel back roofs
and expose trailer insides...

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (09-03-2004 06:52 PM).]

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-09-03 03:04 AM

yes Martin...very well described!

ecrivan
Member Elite

since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

2 posted 2004-09-03 06:47 PM

thanks passing for appreciating this, naturally mother nature is a much bigger force than we bargained for...

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

3 posted 2004-09-03 10:59 PM

scary stuff -

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

4 posted 2004-09-04 03:53 PM

Martin, what a deep poem, this! Good reading and worth pondering again from a shelf in my library. Thanks for penning it and sharing.

.....jo

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