Dedicated to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina


Twas Grace That Taught...




I beg of you, heed a moment of silence,
a respectful steely calm after a brutal storm.
This is a time to rebuild lives and livelihoods;
to resurrect these cities washed away

Now is not the time to spout and spew
politics, racial slights and sloppy slurs;
demeaning and destroying our faint and fellow
brothers and sisters. Damn It, show compassion!

Who are we to judge, to condemn others
when we, the privileged, have not worn the
tattered shoes of Katrina's weary victims
nor the tight pinching shoes of our leaders

Silent voices no longer cry tears of
black or white, just red. Those left behind
embittered at Mother Nature and God in turn,
mindfully so, as they have lost all, save their skin.

Yet, we are faced with celebrity noise, celebrating
a self-righteous platform of piteous nonsense
drowning out a straining chorus of "Amazing Grace"
meant to share some slight familiar comfort

We should be bruising our fattened knees
begging God's mercy for our selfish souls.
Forget our differences, forgive our coloured slights
and remember that we are One Nation Under God.


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If you can do nothing else, please spare a moment of silence and offer up a prayer for the safety, well-being and restitution of the victims of Hurricane Katrina instead of bellyaching about your own pitiful agenda....

(Inspired by Kanye West's disrespect for our President and our fellow Americans.)



Poetry by DianeAnjoue
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Written on 2005-09-12 at 16:58

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Sofiul Azam
Wow, you have written a 'touching' poem out of the sufferings that the victims of Hurricane Katrina have gone through; and certainly it's our compassion that matters for people anywhere in the world. It's your frame of mind that has 'touched' me as well; I like you all the more as a person who feels humankind in her big bosom like a mother does out of her sheer love for her children, and as a poet who thinks it's grace that is far greater an influence than anything we merely can dream of.
2005-09-13


DianeAnjoue
So very true. But it's the victims that are important, not the fault of whomever did or didn't have that failsafe plan in place... How does anyone prepare for such disasters... Not even in our wildest imaginings could we have prepared for such devastation...

Only God can restore it all... We can try but without His help we are nothing.

Thanks again.

~Diane
2005-09-12


chasingtheday The PoetBay support member heart!
i have been following the news, as i always do here, and have seen the terrible suffering, it's madness. the ways of nature takes us unawares, when really we should have emergency plans in place, to act on immediately, not days after the events.
2005-09-12