central Texas
one death we struggle
getting over
so
so how to comprehend a hundred
deaths and
more
storms and floods
destroying
like Time’s rolling sons in
the old hymn
taken
the material and
lively
debating over quick response
especially in a time of
cutting funding
for
all kinds of services
mostly
though a matter
now
of rescue
and the dreadful counting
receiving
aid
enduring then
to take
on
against all pushes of despair
considering
instead how to rebuild
“O God, Our Help in Ages Past” by Isaac Watts
Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the op’ning day.
(excerpt)
flooding town next over
(from mine in Pennsylvania)
Carlisle
one day
for storm floods
that were
severe
boating on streets
through town
no chance to pass through
radiating intersections
all the trees and parts of trees
that fell
and the delicate
dangerous dance
with
electricity
now nature helps to dry
in its irony of
having
delivered all the water first
the human focus next
on
taking
finding stock
and then rebuilding
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photo by Wes Warren on Unsplash
Hebei and Henan
(according to Xinhua news)
Nearly a hundred
Known to have lost
life here in conquests
of water, land, and
souls that are the
floods’ in China.
There are times
when Who is now
our nation’s friend?
has no new meaning.
Prayer and pledge
and action, anyway.
from all of us in
all the nations.
http://in.reuters.com/article/china-floods-idINKCN103078
the photo,
A woman cries as she holds a pig rescued from a flooded farm in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, China, July 22, 2016.
Reuters/Darley Shen
Two Hundred Fifty Dead
two hundred fifty dead in Chennai
a rounded number while the
counting of the dead goes on
rains and flood that’s what did
it now hopefully not so much
because of human design in
placing buildings and the populace
Chennai so you know is a city
of the world not that that should
matter for the death of one
native inhabitant anywhere is
a loss that makes a difference I
know you know this
but international technology
companies have invested in
Chennai with their presence their
companies are closed there now
worst killing flood in a century it’s
said and the rain keeps falling there
the part of all that’s drowned and
so given up which might be of natural
design has me wonder about a
fallen world did everything fall
that was created first would even
storms and floods that for now
cut off life would they run true and
right if renewed into the first and
given state makes me wonder if
free will then was worth the cost
sometimes I wonder this at other
times I don’t question for I know
that a fallen world is not worth the
cost of discretion and of choice
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