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  >> Static Item >> Poetry >> Biographical >> ID #1441483  |   Show DetailsPrinter Friendly Page Tell A Friend
Mississippi Ruler
It's truly the one in charge
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Closed roads
Bridges don't work
No walking,
no pathways...
A cacophony of motors
Work fruitlessly to pump
It all away

Shops boarded
All is quiet
Eerie stillness...
except a faint
Lapping at pavements,
The whine of a gull
Now and then

Bustle and business
A thing of the past
In the beauty of
Water everywhere...
Glistening, sparkling
Against an evening
Sun

Blinding us in
Knowledge,
Reminding us glaringly...
We are small, we are weak
We must bow to the force
When we live and breathe
And die by

The rule of
The Mighty Mississippi.

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