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In Isabel's Wake
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
  
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Hurricane Isabel, now no more than a memory to some, but to others...


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In Isabel’s Wake…


 


   Downed & uprooted trees                                    


 Power lines tangled like strands of Christmas lights,


 Electricity a memory for millions…


    Man's machines scattered like toys.


               


 Homes built too close to Mother Ocean... lost forever!


Steps that once led to a porch, lead nowhere…


      Man's world in a frazzle…


 


 Mother Nature sits back taking stock, another battle won,


      Man's world in shambles…


 


 


 


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 Reviews of "In Isabel's Wake"
Reviewed by Bobbie Hess (Reader)
Reviewed on September 22, 2003
Ed--wonderful similes--and the picture itself was worth a thousand words. We should all listen when Mother Nature speaks.
BobbieH

Reviewed on September 20, 2003
Good write on the current event. The lone object in the picture added to the sadness of the poem. Good choice.

May Lu a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on September 20, 2003
Oh my god, Ed, that picture... I love it! Shade of Planet of the Apes... Your accompaning piece, succinct. Population's brains versus Mother Nature's Brawn. There is no contest, sad, but so many times seen. What a bitter waste of human dreams...

Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson
Reviewed on September 20, 2003
This poem reminded me of an old, "Don't mess with Mother Nature" commercial that I liked. Yes, she gets upset often, especially when man gets in her way! Good write.

Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on September 20, 2003
A very specific devastation and destruction. Old mother nature had its way.
Bill

Reviewed on September 20, 2003
(((ed)))

but you can rebuild

good, intense descriptions of nature's wrath...and man's renewal

(((HUGS))) and love,

karla. :)


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