Mini Earthquake Experiences

Experienced a third bigger earthquake recently but this poem I wrote for a smaller earthquake years ago) My first trivial tremor experience had been in Southern Africa And now this puny earthquake I felt in Tanzania. I saw every thing waltz to and fro and lightly shake Bottles turned ballerinas dancing slightly to the quake I watched glass decors on the walls quiver and jolt Scaredy me was half asleep, no wonder didn't bolt I thought I was dreaming or imagining things My bed and chairs converted into gentle swings. All vials and vases jiggled to dance a jig The lil horrors over So I cast humor's wig Ah when began rattling, the knick knacks on my dresser Was when it dawned upon me in horror That this was really an early dawn tremor. I phoned some friends but those early risers Hadn't even noticed or felt those tremors I bet they thought I was spreading false rumours After all poets are stereotyped as fanciful philosophers. My cell phone keypad became my panic button in a flurry Of course I wanted all to be alerted, alarmed in worry Nobody believed me until it was announced in our mosque And every body was then called by muezzin to pray the signs prayers Then every body knew the tremor was no hoax Some patted me for being the first to notice this shaking of earthly layers Of course I thanked God this was no major earthquake I've heard in other places how terribly the earth can crack and shake Who else but God could I owe my heartfelt gratitude For this being my 2nd low power tremor in magnitude As it measured low on the Richter scale based on the seismic waves' amplitude But the earth was shaken and I too was shaken No pics of the shivering axis were taken Todate runs down my spine such a shiver On recalling how the mother earth did quiver I have seen videos of earthquakes where the earth juggles things like a salt shaker May God protect us from such a waker and breaker