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Poseidon Doesn't Like New York
May 2, 2023
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!
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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.