There is smoke in the air,
Lava is bursting everywhere.
Buildings and houses are burning,
People and firefighters are hurrying.
by C. C.
 
 
Kilauea
Kilauea, so strong,
Kilauea did something wrong.
Kilauea so powerful,
So, so dreadful.
There was a glare,
It was worth a stare.
It was so blazing,
It was amazing.
by K. B.
 

Eldfell
There is smoke in the air,
Lava is bursting everywhere.
Buildings and houses are burning,
People and firefighters are hurrying.
by C. C.
 
 
Mt. Pelee
Mt. Pelee erupted May 8,
That was a really important date.
The whole town was volcano bait,
Death was a lot of people’s fate.
by M. B.
 

Mt. Pelee
Mt. Pelee, 1902, burned everyone’s shoes,
Killed people on the ship’s cruise.
Lava so hot,
Hotter than the cooking pot.
By D. P.
 

The City of Chiapas
The poison gas grows near
The city of Chiapas was full of fear.
Lave flowed hotter than fire,
They used ladders to help them climb higher.
by L. P.
 
 
Mount St. Helens
Ash flying high up above your head,
Some were missing, some were dead.
Avalanches were roaring,
Glaciers were pouring.
by B. C.


El Chichon
In the distance, the volcano broke,
Sky changes in the shadow of the smoke.
Everyone in a battle to get out of the city,
They couldn’t get out, what a pity!
by C. A.
 
 
 Paricutin
In Mexico a volcano grew in a field,
Day by day it was revealed.
Paricutin grew 450 feet,
While the farmer gave up in defeat.
by I. L.
 
 
Eldfell
There is smoke in the dirty air,
People say the firefighters care
Crops are dying
People are crying.
by Z. A.
 

Kanto Earthquake
In 1923, there was an earthquake
Even though it wasn’t the biggest shake
140,000 people died with great pain.
          It destroyed Tokyo, Yokohama,
  and the Kanto plain.
  by C. J.


Vesuvius
Vesuvius, Vesuvius, how you cursed
Pompeii’s death, it was the worst.
My heart broke when you killed so many,
The survivors, there weren’t hardly any.
by S. G.
 
 
Eldfell
Lights the sky,
Like the 4th of  July.
Rumbles and tumbles down the side
Burns the city, no place to hide.
by A. B.
 

Anchorage
Anchorage is a good city,
but in the year 1964, there was pity.
There was a tsunami
It destroyed all their salami.
Rebuilding Anchorage was in order,
Again there was happiness in their borders.
by K. F.
 

San Francisco Earthquake
The earthquake struck leaving lots to die,
One person tells a lie.
Don’t know who is going to say good-bye.
One person sadly says “hi.”
by K. J.
 
 
 Mount  St. Helens
The big green trees are down,
Thousands of  feet are gone on the peak,
Frightened people in dressing gowns,
Suffer a scare that was unique.
by  T. M.
 
 
Tangshan
The earthquake there was destroyng,
After that came the aftershocks.
When that was happening,
Down came the rocks.
by L. L.
 

San Francisco
You run from the flames,
You can hear someone crying out names.
There is smoke in the air,
Buildings falling everywhere.
by  D. T.
 
 
 Great Kanto Earthquake
There was death and destruction
 when Grest Kato hit,
The tsunami and fire would not quit.
All the buildings in town
were totally destroyed,
The people who lived there
were completely  annoyed.
by  J. G.
 
 
 Earthquake
Once there was an earthquake
and it made the earth shake.
It made buildings fall,
That were once very tall.
by C. G.
 

Kobe
Wiggle, wiggle,
jiggle, jiggle.
Kabe shakes,
like a chocolate milk shake.
Aftershocks, aftershocks.
Oh, no! Oh, no!  Then rocks.
When people died,
People cried.
by C. C.
 

Anchorage, Alaska
There was an earthquake,
I knew when my house began to shake.
There was tsunami,
That tried to haunt me.
by Z. M.
 
 
San Francisco
There was a lot of smoke,
Eight churches broke.
 A lot of people died,
And all the parents cried.
by A. A.
 
 
El Chichon
Lava, red as a flame,
From the volcano, ash and gas came.
Eruptions stirring the land everywhere,
Smoke, like clouds, in the air.
by M. F.
 
 
Kobe
Wiggle, wiggle,
jiggle, jiggle.
Kabe shakes,
like a chocolate milk shake.
Aftershocks, aftershocks.
Oh, no! Oh, no!  Then rocks.
When people died,
People cried.
by C. C.
 
 
Anchorage, Alaska
There was an earthquake,
I knew when my house began to shake.
There was tsunami,
That tried to haunt me.
by Z. M.