User Poetry

[kennyc]

Many "Poetry Month Readings here:"

http://forum-network.org/series/poetry-month-series-2

[beppe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Many "Poetry Month Readings here:"

http://forum-network.org/series/poetry-month-series-2

Thank you kenny,
note taken. This tread has just revived an old amber, almost dead.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by beppe

Thank you kenny,
note taken. This tread has just revived an old amber, almost dead.

[Joebill]

Hurricane.

A distant cloud on the horizon,
'tis a summer storm,
and nothing more.

I sit by the tv, basking in its warm glow.
it beeps,
like a roadrunner,
a streamer files by below,
'Hurricane Coming ! Evacuate !'

I ponder, should I evacuate ?
or sit idly by,
like a grasshopper in the Summer time ?

Or seek shelter ?
high ground is but an hour's drive away.

I'll wait, for a while.
'Tis only partly cloudy,
dark though the clouds be.

Its still time enough to leave.

I think...

Wind storms and howls outside,
I see my car float by the living room window,
I wonder where all of the water came from ?
We have never had a direct hit,
before.

There comes a curious rapping, tapping at my front door,
Could it be Julliete ?
Or the Sun ?

Here I am,
up on the roof of my home,
the gray waters march by.

An ocean liner is parked in my front yard.
I wonder how it got there ?

I promise, if there is a next year, for me,
to heed the warning for my neighborhood to leave,
while there is still time.
Forevermore.

[ exit ]

Spot the Edgar A. Poe reference ?

[kennyc]

Nice one JoeBill

[Joebill]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Nice one JoeBill

Thanks. I wrote it a few years ago, some years before Katrina, after seeing several interviews by some who lived near the seashore, and hadn't evacuated.

[kennyc]

One thing I find fascinating about that is that people will continue to live there (and other places that have recurring disasters) and rebuild time after time.....amazing.

[Joebill]

Lots of those folks work in the fishing and shrimping industry. Or work on the docks. Or support those folks with ice, homes, stores, etc.

If they all moved inland, food and other prices would climb, to pay for them driving to the shore every day.

[kennyc]

Well That Screws the Pooch

Deepwater leaks
Swampland slimed
Sea turtles washed up
Offshore drilling is dead


Kenny A. Chaffin - 5/3/2010

A quick reaction/throw-away....may develop it though.
just one story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...599476234.html

[GeoffC]

Thanks for the spur Kenny

haiku

#One#

from under the deep
blue sea, black money flows free.
who will pay the price?

#Two#

Gulf Waters run deep;
oil well leaks, but never mind,
have a try elsewhere.

[WT Sharpe]

"Drill, Baby, Drill!"
Has lost it's thrill,
While the need for new energy remains.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Thanks for the spur Kenny

haiku

#One#

from under the deep
blue sea, black money flows free.
who will pay the price?

#Two#

Gulf Waters run deep;
oil well leaks, but never mind,
have a try elsewhere.

Excellent Geoff!

I love haiku...I'm not real good at it though.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

"Drill, Baby, Drill!"
Has lost it's thrill,
While the need for new energy remains.

Hey Look! We even got Tom to put his bard hat on!

Here's my version:

"Drill, Baby, Drill!"
Has lost it's thrill,
but lustful energy
we need still.

[GeoffC]

#Three#

drill baby, drill, drill!
the black stuff surfaces now,
what will we use next?

#Four#

for energy - drill
living organisms - kill !
it runs out - one day....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Hey Look! We even got Tom to put his bard hat on!

Here's my version:

"Drill, Baby, Drill!"
Has lost it's thrill,
but lustful energy
we need still.

Better!