Tsunami
Tom Donlon
the
syllables
smooth smooth
as water swish through
the wind of your mouth roll
out like a wave tsumami tsunami
tsu tsu tsu you purse your lips blow
out the name tsu tsu tsu soothing smooth
say it slowly na na na the crest rises rises rises
hauls back the coastal waters whoosh pulls off the clothes
of the shoreline comes in fast fast and low low too fast
to see to see hello hello mi mi mi the receding
receding into the mouth of its leaving its leaving
oh the delirious inconsolable grieving grieving
the muddy littoral the littoral is leaving
goodbye goodbye goodbye into the deep
the deep oblivious blue sea the sea
villages and towns are missing
tsunami tsunami tsunami
where can the missing
ones be the little
ones the little
ones
Poem Courtesy
of "Only the sea
keeps: Poetry of
the Tsunami"
Pictures:
HumanityAshore
Tom Donlon Manages a proposal team for Verizon in Falls Church,VA,and
lives with his wife and children in Shenandoah Junction,WVA. His poems have
appeared in: Antietam Review, Commonweal, Folio, Poet Lore, the
Sheperdstown Chronicle and other journals.Two poems are scheduled to
appear in Wild Sweet Notes,a 2005 anthology of West Virginia poets.He is a
graduate of the American University,Washington,DC MFA program in Creative
Writing.
