Tsunami-Ravaged Southeast Asia

Raymond Grech 1953 (Sliema)



Plenty horses coming all white-feathered run,
Charging, crushing all those lying under sun.
Plenty horses roaring through the coastal sand,
Scaring natives, pilgrims, devastating land.
Whipped by quake and making waves to ravage wild,
Impetuous, devastating even child.
Abodes float on torrents rising from below,
Chorus cries of anguish vanish in billow.
Plenty horses gallop all black-feathered tolls,
Drawing stately chariots full of lifeless souls.
Plenty horses marching the stilled copious flow,
While gravediggers trench the slaughtered earth in throe.
Land-Lord, you saw it all going down the slope...
Plenty horses send in rainbow garb for hope!
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Scheme AABBCCDDEEDFGG
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
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Words 110
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Raymond Grech

Raymond C. Grech (born November 15, 1953. Tas-Sliema, Malta) is an award-winning, Maltese poet, writer and author. Grech is the author of a poetic trilogy in Maltese entitled: QASAB IĊAQĊAQ (Beyond The Creaking Reeds), ’il barra mill-prIŻMI (out of the prISMS) and Lejn L-Għamajjar (Towards Everlasting Habitations). more…

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