“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese


Potpourri

Florence

From far away, her journey starts;
Her strident shrieks to heaven climb.
The ocean feeds her rising rage,
And no one can predict her time.

Across the vast expanse she goes,
Her windswept hair of clouds her crown.
Along her path are cries of woe
As islands soak her tears and drown.

She reaches land in darkened skies,
And all the trees convulse with fear.
Undressed and scarred when she arrives,
They start to groan, for death is near.

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Behind the Verse

I wrote this poem after seeing much news footage of the devastation caused by Hurricane Florence, which struck the coast of North Carolina in 2018. Although it had weakened to a category 1 hurricane by the time it made landfall, it still resulted in catastrophic flooding and wind damage across a wide area of the North Carolina coast.


Poetic form: Quatrain

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