Stones Whisper Tsunami Warnings

cool breeze soft whispers
wise carved sacred words
in ancient spirit tsunamis
marker warning stones

whisper in hot sunshine
heated days summer passing
whisper in ice cold breezes
winter snows seasons passing

whisper in ears of farmers
whisper in ears of artisans
whisper in ears of descendants
whisper in ears of samurai

earthquakes tsunamis
haunt over centuries
flee risk earthquakes
flee to safe mountains

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

quote by Karl Kraus
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

quote by Dan Quayle
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Acrostic Poems

Earthquakes:

E-arth shudders on its hinge
A-ll experience that terrific punch
R-oads crack and traffic stops
T-remors rock and havoc wreaks
H-orror strikes and rubble heaps
Q-uest to save the trapped turns in vain
U-nder the rubble, men scream in pain
A-fter shocks and seismic waves,
K-illing thousands, the disaster leaves.
E-ngulfing gloom swallows the Earth
S-ky high dreams, shattered in death!

Ghost:

G-hastly noises heard around
H-aunted houses with thickets surround
O-ld castles where mysteries abound

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poem by Valsa George
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Follow Me

verse 1:
so you're looking for answers,
and they're selling your choices
in the confort of your own tv
and the magazine covers,
they made you discover
beauty is all that you need
pre-chorus:
it's just a mean game
nothing but a mean game
nothing but lies
try to make you be things
tell you how to see things
why do you try
chorus:
if you're down on your money
down on your luck
if you get pushed over you can get
yourself back up
i said

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song performed by Vanessa Amorosi
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New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault

earth mobile surface divided into tectonic plates
Alpine fault cross hair connects two subduction margins
New Zealand continent sits on plate boundaries

where ocean floor descends into Earth's mantle
at this point surfaces of two plates making up
South Island alpine fault fatally pressure meets

Pacific Plate on easterly area of New Zealand
is moving westwards Australian Plate on opposing
western side of New Zealand moves eastwards

plates sliding at a relative rate about 45mm per year

plate boundaries mobile move at relative rates as plates
move against each other enormous pressure builds
up must be released through earth movement the result

major quake along New Zealand’s Great Alpine Fault

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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In an earthquake, I shouldn't run out of the house - I should run into it.

quote by Tony Danza
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Singing of the grounds

The moss being turned into a green tide
Making all things look so lost and sad
The sun's heart's open got nothing to hide
Though the piano rains in adagio fled
The keys unlocked slowly turn into a sound
Of a memory human for too long dead
Humus outpours tunes and forgotten rhymes
Earthquakes chase the rainbows
Earthquakes capture sunbeams
Waters' wicked undertows
Where nothing ever dreams
In tunes outplayed closing down all sounds
In silence stoned death singing of the grounds

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury of the waves.

Latin proverbs
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

quote by Ludwig von Mises
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German Hamburg E-Coli Outbreak

locally grown bean sprouts have been identified as likely cause
an alert is issued sent out immediately warning people to stop
eating sprouts in mixed salads agriculture ministry has warned
of local German source for Hamburg outbreak just makes sense

after all Hamburg was E-Coli outbreak origin point epicenter...

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Convulsion

The water of your heart
Fleeced of stillness
Continues to shake
And creates waves
The jerk
You must born to taste

Consciousness
The burden of unborn
Feelings
The epicentre of restlessness
Bereft of the bliss
Of inanimate

The awareness
Of birth
Keep you
In restless motion
Haunting
Death is not respite either

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poem by Abdul Wahab
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

quote by Samuel Goldwyn
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Incite Insight

INCITE INSIGHT

Can candlelight melt icy start,
incandescence stem descent,
incite renaissance, shared assent
discovering dream's counterpart?
May heart to heart though far apart
heartache soothe to circumvent
walls beyond walls which represent
apparent obstacles - impart
ardour surpassing Richter chart,
gift elan confident, lament
layers in lairs where hermit spent
temptation torment playing part?

Tenderness twins thoughts to teach
touch formal frontiers may outreach.

10 June 1996 revised 20 November 2008

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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Turning Up The Heat

verse 1:
love wasn't meant to be
easy without a care
and this love will be hard to keep
from a distance without truning cold
pre-chorus
tell me what you think about us
tell me how you're feeling when you're lost
always sitting down
but with you i've always found i was free
chorus:
if it's up to you
i want it up to me
our fighting's always been, so good
and always turning up the heat
if it's up to you
i want it up to me
our fighting's always been, so good
and always turning up the heat
verse 2:

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song performed by Vanessa Amorosi
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Sharon Stone's Karma Remark

earthquake karma remark
Sharon Stone's career
shakened

earthquake karma remark
sharon stone in cause
and effect trauma

stonehearted quake remark
Sharon Stone fame takes a
tumble

Sharon Stone's karma remark
in the aftershocks
a flurry of sorries

Si Chuan quake karma remark
Sharon Stone's career gets
a jolt

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poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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He

Walked into the sun,
He. With weak flesh.
A storm was raging on burning sands.

In hollow of his knees
gravel was hitting hard.
He moved onwards in trance

Visionary, homeless, life in open
was blessing.
A huge crowd followed him, voiceless..

Hushed silence breaks the dam.
Valley of timbers was ready to receive the blood,
from epicenter, from fields.

poem by Satish Verma
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Energy Angel (Live For The Feeling)

On a magical starlit night,
Heaven’s gems shine so bright,
Terpsichorean moonbeams,
Create dazzling scenes,
With celestials lambently defining,
Weft clouds coruscant silver lining,
Full moon becomes firmament window,
A gateway to an astral aural glow,
Electrically energised clouds’ jissom,
Released within lunar light so lissom,
Conjures an angel that resonates,
So much vitality it evaporates,
Every internal doubt and disbelief,
Ridding my spirit of all its grief,
By touching and injecting my heart,
With her uplifting and infecting art,
Ameliorating edification inside,
Giving out the vibe to come alive,
Her soul is made of energy so pure,
Becoming Love’s epicentral cynosure,

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poem by Dale Mullock
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I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.

quote by Keith Moon
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Epicenter

within this
ball of a world

i fear....
i die with fear

not like the body
...the mind

within this
ball of a world

i fear...
i die with fear

the body
feels the wind as a friend
it walks and breathes
in full confidence

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poem by Samanyan Lakshminarayanan
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