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Thanks to you all for you kind comments, I must admit it took some thinking about to get this one right.

posted by BernieFranklin on January 23, 2010 at 7:08 AM | link to this | reply

Quake
Very vivid use of language and typography - I was moved. You found expression for what you felt.

posted by 2902 on January 23, 2010 at 5:51 AM | link to this | reply

This one is awesome, I loved how you set up the onomatopoeia! It was very depictive of what is currently happening! Fine choice of words to get the point across, too! sam

posted by sam444 on January 23, 2010 at 4:06 AM | link to this | reply

Bernie Franklin this made me get tears...very well written.  very.  ~ I Praise God for the Military ~ The Marines and all the helicopters - and the amphibian troops arriving as well...May God bless all ~ Elyse

posted by elysianfields on January 22, 2010 at 6:20 PM | link to this | reply

Quake
Poignant stuff this, takes a  bit of writing I would imagine, but things like this should be told.

posted by C_C_T on January 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Tzippy
Thanks for your lovely comments, actually I have been, unlucky enough to feel the effects of two earthquakes in my lifetime ( both in western/Eastern Europe ) they weren't very strong but they did cause considerable structural damage, and I found there was an eire silence both before and more surprisingly after the events .

posted by BernieFranklin on January 22, 2010 at 11:11 AM | link to this | reply

This brought back many memories for me...especially when I helped with the Lebanon Evacuation back in 2006...the screams and dead bodies in the water still float in my mind...Good write!

posted by Ryan_Morrow on January 22, 2010 at 10:39 AM | link to this | reply

wow very very touching poem-
But if you have been in an earthquake it is not silent at all, you hear the rumbling of the earth and it is more freightening the bullets and bombs because there is NO shelter.

posted by Tzippy on January 22, 2010 at 10:38 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Feme
Thank you for your kind words. BF

posted by BernieFranklin on January 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply

Children of the Quake
We all need to bow down on our knees and thank GOD for Help when difficulties in our world seem to swallow the innocent but as you have written..Bring the little childres unto me. If we can help others that is our purpose . Lv Fememefeme(Fema)

posted by fememefeme on January 22, 2010 at 9:28 AM | link to this | reply

Your original style sways and swoons this serious situation. Your words both tell it like it is and paint an image of hope. BC-A, Bill’s RJLsZ

posted by BC-A on January 22, 2010 at 5:42 AM | link to this | reply

Good Grief that's real!!!
This is the first time I've read you.  Even though I have never personally experienced an earthquake, I feel as if I were there for that one. 

posted by TAPS. on January 22, 2010 at 5:23 AM | link to this | reply

Very, very forceful.....
I enjoyed the read!

posted by Corbin_Dallas on January 22, 2010 at 3:08 AM | link to this | reply