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Xillus_Xavier
09-17-2008, 08:08 PM
A Catalog of American Calamity
(Sonnet of Sorrow #3)

A liner meets and icy doom at night.
A silver blimp becomes a ball of flame.
A harbor's bombed by planes at early light.
A charismatic president is slain.
We lose the man who said he had a dream.
A campus demonstration goes astray.
The shuttle splits apart in fiery streams.
A quake collapses bridges in the Bay.
A bomb outside an office building blows.
The nation screams as towers tumble down.
A sniper terrorizes D.C. roads.
As levies fail, we watch a city drown.
A college campus mourns their murdered friends.
A Texas town's destroyed by sea and winds.



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Justin Rockwell
09-19-2008, 11:57 PM
I really like this poem, it displays reality so blatently. Good job.

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Pendragon
09-20-2008, 01:44 PM
Great dark poem and sonnet!