Max Reif (1948 / OVER 400 POEMS SERVED! !)

poet Max Reif
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Hurricane Poem

The hurricane hits,
You batten down your hatches,
Try to secure everything.

It's all a big mess.
Hurricanes don't
Respect our boundaries!

Soon you're just trying to survive,
Holed up in a small, safe room.
You doze off. When you awake,
Everything is still. You venture outside.

You gape, speechless!
The hurricane has taken
All you've ever known
And re-arranged it,
Leaving it perfect, resplendent:
The beauty you've always dreamed of!

Max Reif
Submitted: Thursday, June 23, 2005

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  • Linda Ori (3/3/2006 11:21:00 PM)

    Max - read Compassion (mine) and there is the horrible side of the event. It was written in honor of the survivors of Katrina.
    Linda

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  • Simone Inez Harriman (7/4/2005 5:35:00 AM)

    Love this one Max. Good vision of natures force blasting rubble away.

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  • Raynette Eitel (6/23/2005 8:44:00 AM)

    What a fantasy...but it is more prose than poetry, in my opinion.

    Raynette

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