tiny bamboo barque
thick winds squall her man and net
islands vanish aft
© 2017 Melinda Irvine
Daily Prompt: Overwhelming
Overwhelmed
Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
My kingdom to sail in one of this!
apt interpretation. the waters are beautiful but i am very scared of them…
thanks! I see all these tiny fishing boats in the sea here and the storms gather so quickly, the wind engulfing all. mel.
haven’t gone to Iloilo but i heard that about the place. one of those devastated by Yolanda, too. 🙁
Iloilo is a great city, it sustained damage during Yolanda but not as much as the surrounding municipalities and islands further north.
yes, not as much as Leyte…
yes it was tragic what happened there in leyte and samar.