Categories
Random Posts
- No Time Like Today: dithyrambOh, come and get your revel on: laissez bon temps roulez! Catch this moment before it’s gone, ’til sorrow’s back to dwell upon. Parade and …
- Howard JonesSo many inspirations have escaped, slipped through the cracks, their golden finish tarnished when confronted with the facts Some let their fame get to them, …
- Obviously Lefty FrizzellI’ve always been obsessed, thematically, with silence, journeys, and the contexts in which real “life-changing” epiphanies occur. It seems to me that one of these …
- No Time Like Today: dithyramb
Recent Comments
- Irene on Some ancient affirmations
- Rekha on No More Sad Weepings of Regret
- Novena on Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
- John on On the Veranda: serenade
Subscribe
Join 298 other subscribersMeta
Tag Archives: catastrophes
No Useful Illusions
What useful illusions we once had are gone: that governments serve, that the lowliest pawns with slow forward motion may yet become kings. How quickly it seems that the simplest things become complicated and mired in deceit, and minor successes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged catastrophes, disasters, frustration, governments, Hurricane Katrina, illusions, New Orleans, recovery
Leave a comment
The Aftermath
Ain’t no use in looking back; your eyes will be fooled by the mirror. What seemed once to be so small, becomes too big and crystal clear Ain’t no use in laying blame; The line between who’s right and wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged catastrophes, disappointment, disasters, dreams, Hurricane Katrina, illusions, regret
Leave a comment
The Storms We Name: an acrostic
H elpless in the laughing face of elemental change u nloosed as a pointed reminder that we each exist – r eally, at the mercy of the Mother’s loving hands, the r ight extending blessing, while the left removes our … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged acrostic, catastrophes, daily poems, helplessness, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, weather
Leave a comment
New Orleans
Dear America: The day after Katrina passed by New Orleans and the reporters at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street, in the goddamn sacred French Quarter, were saying “New Orleans has been spared” I knew it would come to … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged catastrophes, daily poems, disappointment, disasters, FEMA, governments, Hurricane Katrina, mass media, New Orleans, Ray Nagin
Leave a comment
Feast During Famine
When Obiwan Kenobi felt the end of Alderaan it was as if a hole appeared and swallowed, to a man, the lifeforce of each precious soul existing ’til that time and twisted, perhaps frayed, the cord of which we form … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged catastrophes, compassion, disasters, karma, kindness, spirituality, suffering, tsunamis
Leave a comment
Lady Sorrow
for Starlight Dances When the laughter in your eyes can’t hide the pain inside your heart And the world around you will not stop to listen When you wake up in the morning with a space inside your soul And … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged catastrophes, loss, love, protection, sickness, sorrow, Starlight Dances
Leave a comment