Fifteen Hundred dead and counting,
Pakistan mourning their people.
Monsoons pouring down,
flooding the land and taking life.
Bad enough they have to live
with militants taking their lives,
now the damage to the infrastructure
hinders relief efforts.
While disease begins to take it’s toll.
Author's Notes/Comments:
Free Verse
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).
In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.
Following the direction of Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot, many modern day poets use this particular form of expression.
How very poignant. And what a
How very poignant. And what a pleasure to discover your work. Respectfully written, but let's be honest, there are not many poets on these sites. It is nice to have discovered a fellow artist!
Thanks so much for your kind
Thanks so much for your kind words.