WRITERS’ CHAPTER STORY-OF-THE-MONTH- JULY 2017
TSUNAMI
By: Peggy Offenberger
There is a reckless
Temper of the sea
Churning by a rubble rumbling
Tremble of shifting
Platelets deep below.
A thunder of water
Cruising with an imperial authority
Slams the bamboo villages.
For ten thousand, a final silence.
Wild flowers touched
With atomic rain,
Muscle through the mud
Struggle upward
To preach a better day.
Despite the mawkish
Taste of ashes,
A people of hope.
A people of will
Confident of better times,
Rinse their tears
And quicken to the task.