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Poseidon Doesn't Like New York

May 2, 2023
By midwesrnerd SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
midwesrnerd SILVER, Hartland, Wisconsin
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Chest deep, the tide bites                                             

Swallows                                                  

Dignity, hope, family                                                   

Why does he show such disgust?                                 


Waves rise

Electric Lines Fall

Staring into the eye of fear

Intense and Unpredictable


Bright yellow ponchos

Open a gateway 

To allow a clearing

But it was already too late


A piercing blow

A shimmering gold trident

Destroys New York

With every flood


It seems the Sea God

Curses the City 

For after one wave falls 

Another rises


It’s a war

God vs Humanity  

All we can do   

Is fight!


The author's comments:

With lines from "New York City's Flooding Crisis in the Age of Climate Change" by Rommel Ojeda and John Upton, a Pulitzer Center reporting project


Author’s note: I instead found an article that relates to a book I was reading. That book was Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Percy is the son of the sea god, Poseidon. I thought of this poem as Poseidon taking out his rage on the city of New York. 


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