Weeping Into Water
Jean Bass
We'd been speaking
of man's inhumanity to man-
Rwanda,
the Sudan...
But Tsunami
was a word
many of us had never
spoken before.
And,who first uttered
'Mother Nature?'
Proclaiming the earth
as a powerful,nurturing
woman?
Now,nature's fury
is like the evil step-mother
in a Grimm's fairy tale.
But this is not
make believe.
Blink-
one moment here
one moment gone.
Cameras swept out of hands
before hands
could clasp in prayer.
Cries drowned by waves
before tears
could fall.
Rays of
an intoxicating sun
felt-
as heat became water,
as water became mud,
as mud became burial ground.
Oh,dear,Mother Nature
what of the lost mothers,
the orphaned children...
Are you weeping
into water now?
Back into the sea
that was lost?
Poem Courtesy
of "Only the sea
keeps: Poetry of
the Tsunami"
Pictures:
HumanityAshore
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Jean Bass, Is a Certified Poetry Therapist,founder and director of the poetry
practice (www.poetrypractice.com).She is also a poet,writer,spokenword
artist,teaching artist and educator.Jean has given workshops at the 14th
St.Y.Beth Israel Hospital and schools throughout the New York area.She
has been seen on the Metro Channel's Unblinking Eye and heard on WBAI
radio,New York City.She has performed at The Bowery Poetry Clua,CBGB's,and
Kiev.Several of her poems will appear in 2006 Everyday Blessings
Calendar (Sourcebooks).She has also been published in Poetica and Therapy
NY.She is author of a forthcoming poetry collectiom,I Wish I Might.
