A VIOLENCE AT CEDAR LAKE
by George Freek
March 29, 2026 | Poetry | Overwhelmed
As trees crack like whips
in a furious wind,
waves pound the shore,
like jackhammers.
I close my shutters.
There’s little I can do,
when nature becomes violence
Nature controls things
this savage world.
The moon is lost
in a confusing haze,
but the moon is far away.
The stars are not there,
so they couldn’t care.
This is normal in nature,
but it could be disaster for me.
Rain falls like razors,
on God’s earth,
where billions of years ago,
there were no humans.
There was frozen glaciers.
George Freek‘s poetry has appeared in numerous journals and reviews. His poem “Night Thoughts” was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
I found this poem to be very powerful, with the words and the imagery. I could feel the rain.
Yes me too. I’ve read some Whitman and this reminds me of him.