Haiti

By Ashi, on January 18th, 2010

Rubbles, twisted steel
coloured rags scattered on roads
wailing voices, quiet  tears and desperation,
the camera eye
reporting for hours to the world -
it’s so far away here by the telly
turning away sending the SMS rescue
changing the channel
a little tremble in the eye
quickly rejected
ah shit snow tomorrow again
put another log on the fire darling.

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January 18th, 2010 | Category: Poem Talk

7 comments to Haiti

• devika

  18 January, 2010 at 6:26

  Oh yes, we need our comfort, come what may! Bravo human spirit!

  wishes,
  devika

• Ashi

  18 January, 2010 at 9:29

  Thanks Devika, wonder what one would do in the a similar situation?

• devika

  18 January, 2010 at 10:07

  Yeah, perhaps not much to do…Don’t know what others might do…

  I might pray, or may not….But one thing for sure, I won’t be thinking about tomorrow’s snow/cold or a cosy retreive into the warmth of my house —

  wishes,
  devika

• Paul

  21 January, 2010 at 1:23

  In Haiti the world
  Collapsed, the cries of people
  Echoing in pain.

• Ashi

  21 January, 2010 at 6:58

  Thanks Paul for your fine poem comment, nice one you have on your own site too

• jem

  11 February, 2010 at 13:51

  Good poem. It captures well the way the world works. We all live in our little parts of it, with our own realities, some tragic, some not. The media brings us together, shows us what is happening to others. But still it doesn’t change what is happening for us.

• Ashi

  11 February, 2010 at 18:52

  Thanks Jem, in Haiti I feel it have been a oneway media broadcast.

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