Four Poems: Harvest of Apoplectic Horses [Katrinas Pathway]
Four Poems: Katrina's Pathway
Harvest of Apoplectic Horses
((Dedicated to: Katrina)) crisis)
It has happened before:
Nearby and afar,
Where the four-horses of
Apocalypse
With their flaming nostrils
Breathed in the fury of the winds
Only to vomit out, disaster; —
Then galloped away,
Against pale faces!...
#824 9/2/05
The Vanishing
[Dedicated to: Katrina]
For a time, I left my body—
Behind me.
Still,
I resided in my darkroom—
"There is good in the world," I said,
The spirit of the world begins
To move—slowly, after Katrina.
I closed my eyes, thinking
New Orleans, Mississippi
(a prayer, if only for one).
Women's hands, loaves of bread...
Appear... eyes of men tired with dread
Burgundy faces, huddled
Together... appear.
I say: thank God it's not winter.
The world is silent (mostly)
A few friends hear our cry
But they are just shadows
Turned away from the sun.
The only thing worse than death,
Is this—the vanishing.
#825 9/2/05
Bones in Water
(The Gem of the South; Katrina)
There once was this gem
Down along the Mississippi
(The Big Easy, New Orleans)
A gem, all wanted to touch:
Now in silent waters, like Atlantis;
The city in the dark:
Once the blossom of the South,
It cannot stand up right now.
Broken to its knees, with ease
In the winds of the hurricane:
Katrina's pathway: bones and ravage.
#826 9/2/06
Doomed to Live [Katrina]
Doomed to live Are those who survived—? Katrina's massive outcry The defiance of Mother Nature Against mankind—. Thus, her ultimatum, her Remorseless, implacable Unalterable despair— Gave her skeleton to create A great catastrophe For humankind... Her face was gaunt, with Patched gray, colored dead With tarnished braids around Her eyelids—unaimed, calm Her voice, not even rose— She destroyed New Orleans Her golden rival!...
#827 9/3/05
Dennis Siluk, international Poet
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