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When the world has just gone crazy\r\nAnd all our minds are numb\r\nWe have to still remember\r\nThink the Best\r\nDo not succumb\r\n\r\nWhen we see all the images\r\nDevastation, death, more grief\r\nWe have to still…

Look For Grace

Torrential rain, hurricanes, storms in the night\r\nNatural disasters we\'re unable to fight\r\nSouth Florida withstood a catagory 1 hurricane\r\nA mild storm turned hostile, Katrina\'s her name\r\n\r\nShe uprooted…

The Saga Of…

In this calm before the storm, how could we know\r\nAs the rolling trombone notes began to flow\r\nAnd laughter rose like flighty chorus lines?\r\nHow darkly, now, our memory defines\r\n\r\nThat scarce is laughter once…

Tears

\r\nI am from a city that used to be\r\n A city that was famous for Mardi Gras, jazz and blues\r\nA city three centuries old - my choices are few, all I can do now is flee\r\n A city where it\'s citizens had to pay…

Will It Be You?

Our lives have changed because of world disasters\r\nSome changes for the good, some for the bad\r\nWhy does it take a tragedy for ones to\r\nCome together in unity and peace?\r\n\r\nSome make changes for a day, a week,…

True Colors

Many lives have been shattered\r\nMany are alive by the grace of God and to Him they are thankful\r\nAnd to them material things don\'t matter\r\n\r\nGod\'s hand will provide them food, shelter, clothing and shoes to…

Put God In Charge

Katrina\'s\r\nIs it Love or Death\r\nAnother named for Mother nature\'s wind\r\n\r\nShe comes in crying - she\'s hurting again\r\nWill we ever learn Katrina\'s message she sends?\r\n\r\nShe\'s a Mommie Dearest - run,…

Is It Love Or Death

I need to write\r\n\'Cause I can\'t hold this all inside\r\nI\'ve recently realized\r\n\r\nI\'m not just a poet, but a poet with a mission\r\nWhen God made me he gave me vision\r\n\r\nBlessed to make it, I…

I Need To Write

Under lowering dawn skies like winegrapes\r\n shot with veins of hot yellow\r\nA high Crescent City moon could not distend\r\n her beams on the town below\r\n\r\nNo helpful light shone inside\r\n the dark…

Vogue La Galere

As dead innocents depart\r\nTo Hades in shopping carts\r\nEverything will look alright to thee\r\nPut silver dollars o\'er yer eyes\r\nSo yer don\'t have to criticize\r\nThen yeeze can all make out\r\nYer didn\'t…

As Dead Innocents…