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Odyssey 

Collectively, let us hold hands for the lives lost forever to complete change, at the hands of harsh tragedy.  Leave your thoughts and prayers here.

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www.unicef.org/

www.redcross.org.au/ourservices_aroundtheworld_emergencyrelief_AsiaQuakeTsunamis.htm

www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm

www.oxfam.org.uk/

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Never has there been such a calling
For the proof of heart’s existence…

NurseChillyI sat watching the news
nerves frayed and battered
As if I'd ridden the storm myself
And I prayed, so help me God, I prayed
Minding my business
I touched myself in the shower
In the can, and as the wave washed in
there on the steamed mirror
I fingered my name
rindomaiI etched it into its very coldness
Only to crack the looking-glass
As if the room itself were shrieking
Flickering to that moment in a blur of
salt and power, pieces and tears.
deja dreamerand your tears rained down on upturned faces
while the people sang to some foreign god
and all the while the children cried
though no one ever thought it odd
jaunty pilla thousand blood vessels snapped
in the palm of a windy day
the sky was the color of antique marble
washed of its embrace
and the shores bled
bled from people who will remember
Lord GegishovAs the manifestations of nature's ill will
Crossed the ocean and touched the shore
OdysseyAnd I hold out my hand, still I hold out my hand
This tattered calico rag, this infant smile
This truth that makes me hurt a while
ZivlokThe tv says it was the force
of countless atomic-bombs, but I didn't
Need it tell me of bad,
it was deadly.  I already knew.
technicolorgirlthe glow from the screen
fell dead on my eyes
I dared not utter a word
watching, wondering
would we be next?
Windblown TearsFelt it in my heart,
in my soul
God help the meek to inherit the earth,
God help me from inherent apathy
AlmostMeFor moments,
there was roaring,
and then unbroken sound,
as firelights,
flickered,
in too strong a wind,
and warmth fell;
 through shallow
 to fathom.
sidewindertears from families that have loved ones
torn away in a second of time
masterblasterMay God bless you and help the hurt to heal
Jumping up from my daily carpet inspection,
I slapped a baby seal
and pulled an innocent child's hair
my god my god, he touched me there
mother spins like a disco ball, glittering
horribly glittering
jonnyfaintWhat lies under the sands of time
When the Ocean swells and the people cry




billyd
Odyssey
DannaAnd if only there was something I could do
But I feel so incredibly helpless, or hopeless
We think we know but we could never understand
To lose everything, everyone one
And all you've ever known
BlushfulmoonFor what was once
a beautiful tourist attraction
Is now completely gone, nothing left,
still looking for survivors
Not even a place for them to dwell,
no more Home Sweet Home
RollingStonehow blessed are we who merely see
the images of death and grief
but for grace or fate or luck
these horrors may have fallen on us
let each of us in our own way
send our help and even pray
and remember how blessed we are
myrataalFather God,
our souls fly without body or eye -
into YOU we die victoriously.
Painless we soar - your sacred Memory.

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