Many people that were once housed
Are left without their homes.
They that were filled with great inspiration
Are now left dreamless and lost.
They that once had many riches
Are left with nothing of material value
And they weep themselves many times to sleep
Just to try and get over the pain.
The pain that their house, once beautiful,
Now lies in mere splinters and logs
As the great fury of the Atlantic
Unleashed the fury of its storm.
The worst hurricane for many years
Left an imprint on our country
As the beating waves rolled in
And thrashed upon their homes.
Hurricane Katrina has finally died
Yet not in the hearts of our land
And though many people are left visionless
With the fire of compassion must help them.
Author notes
Hurricane Katrina 8/25/05 at 6:30 pm. hit the coast of Florida. This terrible hurricane caused so much damage and many lives were lost because of it. Our nation will forever remember the horrible aftermath of this great storm, as even today, people are trying to rebuild and trying to live a normal life again. Here are some devestating pictures of this horrible catastrophe images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=all&imgc=&vf=all&
Written June 13th, 2006
A contest entry
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400 points, ended June 24, 2006, 14 entries
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a sad piece... I'm sure there will be many with thoughts like this about the hurricane
thanks again for entering our contest and good luck too
~GILL~x -
thank you for entering the contest-
m -
there have been katrina's of the past......those who do not understand the feeling of hopelessness.........will never truly understand....the meaning of destroyed lives...we can vision of what its like....never really knowing the depths of emotional defeat.....shame our country rather squander our dollors forgiving debts to nations who take our money and hoard it for the few in power...never giving help to the intended....so is this statis quo here.....greed persist and people still starve for a life in america..
so be these thoughts lingering upon me..
Malabu -
Wonderful writing, it was true and interesting...keep writing you will become a great poet someday
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Hey Chelsea
Great job with this poem. I loved the way your poem went with the picture yall were given it was interesting the way you put hurricane Katrina in with this. Good luck in this contest sis 
and 
's to ya always.
Your sis
Kimberly
Edited on Jun 14, 11:37 because ' and 's'.
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Wonderful write about Hurricane Katrina! My youth group is taking a trip down there this summer to help out for 10 days. I wish I could go this year, but with trying to work full time and such, it's hard to do much of anything. Very heart-felt write... much better then anything I could have done on the topic. One suggestion for your poem and your poetry in the future is that I like your choice of words, but you didn't use many metaphors or poetic devices in your poetry. You have great imagery and emotion in your poem, but I think it could be a bit better if you tried to work a few metaphors/similies into the poem. Just think about that for your future writings.
Best of luck to you in the contest
--Tim
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