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Isaac's Storm
by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner → (All Poetry by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner)
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Galveston, Texas, nineteen hundred.


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"Isaac's Storm"

No announcement of the
coming storm, except what
was in the clouds, the wind,
the r a i n.  Nature's warning
s c r e a m e d "hurricane!"  Science

knew it all (Galveston,
Texas, nineteen hundred) -
inCLINEd to believe it:
Been blows before.  They'd come
onshore and leave just as

quickly.  Not this day, the
Eighth of September:  streets,
overran; stilted homes
deemed impervious knocked
off their foundations; six

thousand men, women and
children died.  The sea coughed
up its dead; funeral
pyres burned for weeks ... the
unnamed storm was Isaac's:

remembered for its strength,
for its ferocity,
for the damage it caused,
for unraveling man's
attempt to outguess God.

(c) 2007, Karla Dorman (8/26)


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 Reviews of "Isaac's Storm"
Reviewed on October 15, 2008
Dear Karla,

You took me there with this piece of (sad) history. It's important to learn from our mistakes . . . incredible write!!


Hugs,

Lance

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on August 30, 2007
Thanks for sharing!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Jerry Engler
Reviewed on August 29, 2007
Good historical poetry, Karla. I'm not sure but what this Galveston event was the worst storm in human life lost ever in the U.S. Am I right?...Jerry

Reviewed by Art Hernandez
Reviewed on August 29, 2007
Karla, you sure know the storms of hurricanes, even the past cannot escape your pen.....a sad view and yet you did a fantastic job of expressing the story of storm through your poem...

nice work.....




Art Sun...

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Fantastic write in remembering the hurricane at the turn of the century in Galvaston, Texas which was so devasting to so many......

Be safe,
Karen

Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Powerful write here, thank you for sharing
God Bless
Michelle~

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Weather history comes alive under the ink of your writes Karla as you continue to educate us on the perils and love/hate relationship we share with Mother Nature.
hugs
Fee

Reviewed by john zimmerman
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Good write, k.j.

That was a fearsome storm
the wise heed the sings that the sea and the sky give them

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Terrible tragedy . . . Wonder where FEMA was on that day?

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Could the angry winds be trying to tell us something?
Why we don't listen?
Georg

Reviewed by Rose Rideout
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Karla, thank you for sharing your words, I am sure the damages from the hurricanes over the years will never be forgotten.
Newfie Hugs, Rose

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Karla, good write. Thank God FEMA wan't involved in recoverey, otherwise they'd still be cleaning up that mess.

Peace,
Dan

Reviewed by Walt Hardester
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Karla,
Once while visiting Key West, we took a tour bus ride around the island. During the ride and the narrative from the guide, I noticed that not one single building had survived unscathed, the many hurricanes that have swept over that island. The only original structure that had never been destroyed was the lighthouse. Because it was made of coral.

Walt

Reviewed by Michael Guy
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Great poem based on the non-fiction book of a few years ago. And I think that book came out before Katrina hit didn't it? Our "meteorological poetess" does it again and brings this important issue front and center in clever, inspired, frightening lines. And I think the Gavleston hurricane was only a strong Cat3 but I don't remember. But it's when you live at sealevel or below and are sitting ducks! Thank god, we are at least past the "sitting duck" stage but still with so many people in the way... I shudder to think

Reviewed on August 28, 2007
Harrowing account of the historic storm; may we never forget! Such a huge loss of life; and all because of man's stubborness, to be know-it-alls, to play God. Sad! Very well done, Karla; love the pic!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your twin, Karen Lynn. :( >tears! <

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on August 28, 2007
I've read about this historical storm; yet another truly truly sad episode in the Nature vs. Mankind wars.


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