Tropical Hurricane (Poem)

Caribbean Hurricanes.

 

By Stanley Collymore

 

Gale force winds rampaging wilfully in a consciously

exercised and malevolent spree, and as a result of

this contemptible and maliciously encouraged

duress and deleterious jamboree giving rise

most condescendingly and aggressively

to boisterously wind-lashed seas that

quite eagerly, extraordinarily and

unavoidably in these distinctly

orchestrated and manifestly

conspiratorial circumstances, unwaveringly,

viciously, calculatedly and destructively

resort to co-operatively assist in the

projected and copious spawning of

a range of enormous waves and

exceptionally treacherous sea

currents, reinforced in turn

by lashing rain that was

complementary to the

speedy incursion of

an impending and

plainly ominous

inland flooding.

 

An added disaster in waiting that promptly

and markedly inescapably would to the

intensive and deliberately generated

atmosphere of the intentionally

created and cold-bloodedly

planned civic confusion

that jointly encompass

merely a fractional part, but all the same, a

conclusively acknowledged realization

of the overall adverse environment

and the frighteningly disturbing

encounter wearily denounced

as but likewise officially

also categorized as a

tropical hurricane.

 

An incident at whose particular mercy those who’re either

specifically designated as or else are more likely to be

the random and hapless victims of this callous and

presumably premeditated heinousness are left

defencelessly completely beholding to, no

matter how judiciously or else rationally

prepared they were for its eventual

coming and ultimate eventuality.

For equally and inescapably

caught up in this natural

and predatory beast’s

relentless stalking even though unsurprisingly,

and therefore expectantly, everyone knew

well in advance that it was coming, the

onerous responsibility entrusted to

national governments and their

respective civic authorities

despite man’s amazing

scientific inventions

or early warning

and advanced

developed

systems.

 

Nor, come to that, his conscientiously and often

employed forewarning communications. For

notwithstanding their usually proclaimed

usefulness they’re basically still utterly

powerless in usefully harnessing for

the general good of all affected or

otherwise disposed to be troubled community

or country, the unleashed energy of every

looming or devastating hurricane that’s

waylaying their vicinity, far less so

acquire the requisite capability

to ever permanently banish

the unceasing occurrence

of tropical hurricanes.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

21 September 2017.

 

 

Author’s Remarks:

Hurricanes are predictable; can be destructive even to the point of being devastatingly so, and generally unavoidable in their occurrences. They are also atmospheric events that do feature periodically and with varying levels of intensity in the lives of most Caribbean people.

 

But all the same, these tropical hurricanes can at the same time, either with or without their awesome display of raw, remarkable and unbridled power, be a truly spectacular as well as a most strikingly majestic demonstration of the discernibly tremendous influence which these impressive stalwarts and agents of nature have, not only on our environment but significantly mankind as well.

 

And although their presence can at times be rather deadly and likewise traumatically heart-breaking for some, a world completely devoid of all hurricanes would, in my opinion �" and I’ve personally witnessed several of them first-hand and upfront as they say in the Caribbean �" be an awful diminution of Nature’s well balanced choreography of challenging catastrophes set against, as well as in the process highlighting, its many extraordinary environmental blessings.