There Is A Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On Or I Can Fell The Earth Move Under My Feet Poem by Joe Rosochacki

It's plate against plate.
Way back when, I was in 4th grade in 1964 I had a teacher Mr. Wilk,
- back in Our Lady Queen of Apostles School.
I cut a map into pieces and then I noticed South America fit into Africa.
But wait;
He said to me, paraphrasing him, 'That is coincidental', how wrong he was too!
Plate tectonics is theory, ca.1975, that is present till today,
-it is a fact.
If I may say.
It's not San Andreas' fault.
The South American is crashing into the Nazca Plate and the Caribbean Plate.
The plate crash into each other ever so slowly giving rise to mountains,
And causing Tsuami's and rumbles and shakes.
And in the more recent days, terrible destruction and death in Haiti by earthquakes.
S.A. plate and Caribbean Plate gave rise to earthquakes in:
Venezuela, Cayman Islands
-and some countries in Central America,
They all faced earthquakes soon after Haiti's encounters with geographical forces
- last week.
But their consequences were not as bleak.
The S.A. plate and the Nazca (no, not NASCAR) plate gave rise to earthquakes in:
Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile,
By the way,
Volcanoes, Mountains, The Hawaiian Islands, The Alps,
Iceland, Yosemite, New Zealand, The Rockies, The Himalaya,
Are cousins to each other,
If not, sister and brother,
- they share a common 'DNA' thread.
At last,
Death and destruction, (not caused by the devil) ,
-when man faces to sudden impact of geological forces.
Remember Pompeii,
Remember Krakatoa,
Remember Santorini,
Remember Mt. St. Helens,
Remember the earthquakes in LA and San Francisco,
Remember the terrible Tsumani's of years past,
At last,
The good books have stated the obvious.
The future holds more of this to come.
But these events, the earth's history a geological forces, have been (before man was) , are, and will continue,
-as long that there will be an earth.
You don't need a prophet or priest or a Televanglist to tell what is,
-as far as volcanism is concerned.
But that still doesn't mean comfort to a Haitian child today, at his or her birth.

God Bless the Haitian people for their resilience.
1-21-10