11-27-2013, 06:10 AM
Chazz, I read this quickly and then saw your query. Shaping it is simple once you have your edits down. Using center formating only, you can sculpt your poem thusly:
Cheers/Chris
If you live
in tornado ally, one quickly learns,
storm sirens are not something one should
take lightly,So when the twister touched down in Greensburg,
Bobby and Joan were already hiding in the root cellar.
Childless, beneath the floorboards of their home,
with enough food and water to last them
about a week,they huddled in the damp
dark and consoled each other,
while everything above ground
perished in the wind.
At dawn in the cruel silence
of dead roosters and cattle,
those still alive assembled
to mourn over ruble,
the town an atomized
prairie desperate
for emergency aid.
Nine months later,
a miraculous
boom of
rainbows.
in tornado ally, one quickly learns,
storm sirens are not something one should
take lightly,So when the twister touched down in Greensburg,
Bobby and Joan were already hiding in the root cellar.
Childless, beneath the floorboards of their home,
with enough food and water to last them
about a week,they huddled in the damp
dark and consoled each other,
while everything above ground
perished in the wind.
At dawn in the cruel silence
of dead roosters and cattle,
those still alive assembled
to mourn over ruble,
the town an atomized
prairie desperate
for emergency aid.
Nine months later,
a miraculous
boom of
rainbows.
Cheers/Chris
My new watercolor: 'Nightmare After Christmas'/Chris