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Katrina/Rita
by Leland Waldrip → (All Poetry by Leland Waldrip)
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Spin wildly on sea, smash wave on wave,
Oh great destroyers, on knees we praise!
Plead to the gods t' more gently behave --
Forces of nature — adopt our mores!

Surely, if prayer were strong as some say,
Somewhere on ocean’s wide face — 
Katrina would have stayed, there to play,
And Rita, adjacent, died in place.

© 2005 R. Leland Waldrip

    


 
 
 


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 Reviews of "Katrina/Rita"
Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on October 20, 2005
We wish.
Good to read you again, Leland.

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on September 25, 2005
How did I miss this? So good to read you again Leland! Great poem. Creator has His reasons for everything, one day we may know what it is, if He wants us too!;-)Hope all is well with you!



Love,

Eileen

Reviewed on September 25, 2005
Dear friend, how wonderful to see you posting again, and to read this new work of your inspiration. Sharpness, depth, and always the lucid questioning of matters that should never be enclosed within any of the following boundaries: To take something for granted, and final truth. All this, and the mastery of poetic language, a renewed pleasure every time you write and this reader reads you. :0)
Love,
Alexandra*
(Write you more later)

Reviewed on September 24, 2005
Welcome back Leland. A truly beautiful write. Peace and blessings. Mikii

Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
Very well done, Leland. Good to see you posting again.

Reviewed on September 24, 2005


I see Your sWORDS on the eight lines of "Katrina/Rita".
I hear their sounds and listen to their meanings.

This composition STRIKES...! "Katrina/Rita" I read, and am
glad I did.

Thank You, Poet for complying with Poetry tasks.

Keep posting... Show Your crop... Let the world know how
The American Fine letters shine!

Long healthy blissful life, Poet!


Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
So you are still kicking.
We never know why nature does what she does. Except that it starts in african atlantic in a sea of 27 oc. And crosses over to the gulf, gaing momentum..

Reviewed on September 24, 2005
powerful! well done, londis! nice to see you again!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in tx., karen lynn. :(

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
I didn't pray, I planned while others panicked and clogged the hiways. My last plan, southwest, would have got us out of harms way in less than 60 miles. Stayed home and safe.

Good to see you posting again.

Ron

Reviewed by Aberjhani
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
A powerful reflection on human mortality in the face of nature's more brutal inclinations.

Reviewed by C. J. Stevens
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
You say succinctly in this eloquent poem all that has been lying heavily and inarticulately in our hearts.

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
Well written!!

Soooooooooooo good to read you again....been building and bushcamping??

You were very much missed my friend!!

"Ghost Ship Mary Celeste"...offened played on this side of the world!!

A beloved masterpiece in this house for sure!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by KJ McPhee
Reviewed on September 24, 2005
nature only listens to her own inner promptings, leland. Good question, good poem!

Reviewed by Huda Orfali
Reviewed on September 23, 2005
Prayer will not stop the storm but let's pray the response will not be so disastrous as the last one
Thanks for sharing and hope you're out of harm way


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