A vivid scene you paint.. it must have been horrid with such a quake.

May 8, 2015 at 2:38 AM

Wow, really nice poem; amazing the hyperlink you gave , i linked across and read it all, thanks for the link, helped me to understand the intensity of your poem

muh love...

May 8, 2015 at 3:17 AM

Something I hope to never experience.

May 8, 2015 at 5:10 AM

Wow Gail just WOW. Hug B

May 8, 2015 at 6:01 AM

Beautifully penned..!
xoxo

May 8, 2015 at 6:44 AM

while reading the poem i wondered why i did not remember this, then i went to the link and found it was 200 years ago. scary just like all the tornadoes. hope you are safe this morning

May 8, 2015 at 6:58 AM

I've heard that name since I was a child, aware of it from Illinois. It is really a scary event. Thanks for the link, and good job with the poem.

May 8, 2015 at 7:30 AM

wow. very scary and you portrayed that well!

May 8, 2015 at 7:47 AM

I love the title and the last two lines!

May 8, 2015 at 8:06 AM

Are you close to that fault? Very nice poem.

May 8, 2015 at 8:51 AM

that must have been so frightening to go through that? the idea also of the Mississippi flowing backwards also boggles my mind?

May 8, 2015 at 9:01 AM

Great poem, and something to really think about.

May 8, 2015 at 9:02 AM

This is outstanding, Gail!

May 8, 2015 at 9:45 AM

Your words penetrate through to heart....

May 8, 2015 at 12:22 PM

Beware the Big Muddy.

May 8, 2015 at 12:24 PM

I love that title...and the rest, too.

May 8, 2015 at 12:31 PM

You have captured the turmoil of these natural cataclysms, and people having to learn to believe in living again. Exactly.

May 8, 2015 at 1:43 PM

I have heard about that as long as I can remember but still just can't get my mind to accept it!

I just missed seeing the Mississippi when we got lost in St. Louis. If I had known how close we were we would have got lost a little further!

May 8, 2015 at 2:57 PM

Well done, Gail.
Great new header, too!
Have a blessed weekend!

May 8, 2015 at 7:24 PM

Interesting new header!

May 8, 2015 at 8:40 PM

this is -so- cool, Gail. you bring back that event, weave in history and geology (I love geology!) and do so seamlessly and with grace. thanks for adding your voice ~

May 9, 2015 at 12:31 AM

What an extraordinary event! You describe it vividly, and the list words might have been tailor made for this subject.

May 9, 2015 at 3:16 AM

Quite scary!

Have a good weekend

All the best Jan

May 9, 2015 at 6:46 AM

Wow, such a visual piece addressing not only the toll on nature and human construction, but also the fragility of hope that raises from destruction.

May 9, 2015 at 3:20 PM

Is that Bonnie playing "stare down" in the header Miss Creativity?!

May 10, 2015 at 4:51 PM

You had me at your title first! Bravo.

May 11, 2015 at 11:19 PM

..tried to believe in living again.

That is really a powerful last line - I can only imagine the nightmare of the earth giving way beneath one's feet.

May 12, 2015 at 10:52 PM