Tuesday, April 06, 2021

NPM 2021 - Found Poem 6

Today's poem comes from p. 10-11 of Will It Blow? Become a Volcano Detective At Mount St. Helens, written by Elizabeth Rusch and illustrated by K.E. Lewis.

Mount St. Helens (May 18, 1980)

Earthquake!

WHOOSH!
landslide buried miles
under earth and rocks
POP!
"stone wind" blasted
ash, rocks, boulders
BANG!
erupting upward
ash-cloud
circled the globe
HISS!
gas, ash, pumice
rolled down
SPLAT!
heat melted ice
and snow
mud flowed

pristine mountain
transformed into
steaming moonscape

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2021. All rights reserved.

I hope you'll come back tomorrow and see what new poem I've found. Until then, you may want to read previous poems in this series.
April 1 - Flotsam
April 2 - A Warm Wind
April 3 - Zentangle Poem
April 4 - Soap Bubbles

2 comments:

  1. As I've been observing the quiet buzz of excitement in Iceland about their volcano(s), this is especially notable!

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  2. I love me an onomatopoeic poem!

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