Sunday, January 29, 2012

Tsunami


Least we forget, the enormity, as we humans have a very short memory span.


Tsunami

The Blue, The Serene
Power Yet Unseen
An Ever Present, Land
No Place, Left To Stand

No Walls, No Buildings
A Child’s Cry, Piercing
Crumbling, Consumed
To last, Was Presumed

The Planet Water, Not Earth
Still Unseen, It’s Worth
Floating Atop, A Wave
Not Indigenous, It’s Slave

What Was Never Yours
The Disappearing Shore
A Lacking, The Respect
One Day, Now The Effect

The Mighty, Ring Hollow
The Water, Did Swallow
In The Past, In The Present
The Future, Now To Resent

Joseph Allen
11 5 2011

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Sunrise Again

Tragedy upon tragedy
Seemingly no end
Life Always Precious
A Prayer to Send

Japan the ancient
Japan the new
A great wonder
A time to renew

Shock and disbelief
Hope, the coming relief
The world stands as one
With the land, of the rising sun

Joe Allen
3 15 2011

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