In the year 2004
the hurricane season was bad
we even used some
of the Greek alphabet for names
I remember when we heard
good old Charlie was coming
we battened down the hatches
and moved all things that could fly
When Charlie started showing
his true wrath
I was cowering in the hallway
all that day and night
The wind did blow
The power lines did crackle
The rain poured in buckets
But the lights never went out
The next day we were out in the
yard picking up limbs
and moving them to the side
of the road to be picked up
Then a week or two later
Frances came knocking at the door
The same scary stuff
started to happen again
Yet again we had to
pick up those nasty limbs
and add them to the stack
Charlie had left behind
I swear it was not even
2 weeks later and Jeanne was
a knocking at our door
In the same horrible way
By this time I was sick
of hurricanes and wished
that they would never
come my way ever again
Yet again we had more limbs
to add to the ever growing stack
left behind by Charlie and Frances
that the garbage men were slow in picking up
I don't wish this on my worst enemy
to be hit by the remniences of
3 hurricanes in a matter
of a month and a half
Author notes
This is a true life story. We survived the remniences of 3 hurricanes in 2004. It was scary!
Please tell me what you think
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Good write
excellent write, stark-naked truth about natural happenings. Good job,
Vito
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Wow, I can only imagine how scary that was!
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I bet it was terrifying, I would have liked to see more of your true feelings interwoven into the poem, it is more of a this happpened and then that happened but where is the true depth of feelings? I'm sorry but I don't see them as much as the other readers have. I see that you were frightened, but what kind of thoughts went through your head as you cowered in the hall?
I do like the description of them knocking on your door. I would be terrified and trembling horribly.
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This is well written and terrifying. I survived that summer too, but it was harrowing.
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I can see you were frightened. You translate emotions well into words. You are truly lucky you didn't lose everything you own and/or a family member and friends in all the flooding and destruction. My family was in Hurricane Katrina, and if you read my poem also entered in this contest, you will see what we went through and how truly lucky you are!
Good luck in the contest
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Seems daily we see evidence of living in the last days, look at the severe flooding in the midwest this year. Can't imagine being in hurricanes, your poem depicted the resignation you seemed to start to feel.
laurie
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thank jehovah you were spared of the horribleness of Katrina! i'm sure any hurricane is terrifying, but at least you didn't lose everything. we can only expect these kinds of things to get worse, but it's pointing toward something better
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