Saturday, May 16, 2009

tolerance

' thanksgiving '

quakes and eruptions
and tsunamis and what not
how much tolerance

the hurricane's gone
leaving everything flattened
except surprises.

/ original / zg

11 comments:

  1. There are no surprises when a storm comes, except our continued tolerance. Very well said.

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  2. It is amazing to me what we can endure. What the landscape can endure.

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  3. titanic Gaia
    should we go down with the ship?
    science<>faith<>submission

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  4. Wow. You always amaze me. Like this so much

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  5. strange, I somehow read the last word as sunrises instead of surprises, anyway, quite a visual here, I do wonder how people survive disasters and still continue on

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  6. Very powerful...this was wonderful.

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  7. the survivors
    in the aftermath
    of disaster
    whirling in wild praise

    a wonderful take on the prompt!

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  8. The earth seems to have very little tolerance left for us who maim and kill it everyday

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  9. Wow - there's a lot of strength in these two pieces. Un-flattened surprises, indeed!

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  10. .. sincere thanks to all of u ..

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  11. Indeed...time changes but the suprises do not.
    Well written.

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..namastey!~