Best Earthquake Poems

 Earthquake
ominous, tragic
crumbling, exploding, mocking
destruction, ashes, horror, shambles,
ruining, flagging, pulverizing
unmerciful, belligerent
tremor


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Oh, my years in San Francisco.
Those days when I saw the home
next door, moving..
It's walls looking like a waterfall.
Grabbing the sides on our table,
as nature scared us all.
Or taking a snooze with my daughter.
and telling her to stop shaking the bed!
Then waking her and shouting 
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(My ode to Earthquake is an irregular ode. The ode is written in
memory of an earthquake that took place in Gujarat State (Kutch Region) 
of India in the year 2000 on the Republic Day of India on 26th January.)

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What a day you chose, Grandma Mine!
To...

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What a day you chose, Grandma Mine!
To quake, to move, to shiver, to shake
Thereby to ravage, to savage, to shatter,
The celebrations of Mother India Republic Day.
A female snake eating her own children!
What bad karma those school children had done?
What configurations of the planets took place
In...

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Earthquake

E arth quivers, shakes and quakes violently
A ll around turns dark,the roof and walls begin to crumble
R ight before our very eyes
T o the right and to the left, all around us...
H umans are running for their lives...screaming...
Q uake!!!Quake!!!Get out! Get out now!!!
U nable to...

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An earthquake size crack down my heart 
Now that from soup you did depart
No more romantic gems
To meet those little whims
How I long for your awesome art
  

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I was walking along,
    And I was singing this song,
        That has been playing inside my head.
If you’re as old as I,	
    You know “American Pie”,
      ...

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"Earthquake in a Tea Cup"

the earthquake 
rocked through 
a pink haze 
soft and powdered
scent of lit smoke
flaming fires 
hot oven baked 
green apples 
ripe skin sizzled 
and popped
ice cool cinnamon crisp 
lemon peeled martinis 
black russians and they're 
ripped unfriendly cousins 
Long Island Iced teas...

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Awakened from sleep by a loud, jarring rumble
Shaken, confused, as the earth moved beneath
As I leapt from my bed, I stumbled and tumbled
And so frightened and numb, I was white as a sheet
While the clash and the clatter of everything crumbled
I escaped, not willing to...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Bay Area Earthquake 
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: October/1989



 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
     TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
       AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
        SSSSSSSSSSSSS
          TTTTTTTTTTTT
            RRRRRRRRR
              AAAAAAA
           ...

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Fury of the Gods:
mantle rent asunder and
all hell was unleashed......

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Forceful, unforgiving claws, deep in the earth they dig
Upwards, upwards, breaking more than simply twigs
Cracking crevices, zags, zigs
A roar, a shake, a crick, crig...

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severe earthquake
if someone become horrid
esleone delighted...

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nascent 
     dawn appears
kaleidoscope 
 of 
color
  midnight 
    sighs 
       leftovers 
                  ...

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"Hiding Philadelphia"

The ground has cracked open 
like an egg, 
the shell scattered 
all about 
the yolk of life
sucked into the rubble 
where a child is born 
and carried out 
like a prayer 
an offering
to the silence
of mothers 
lost in the 
sentences
of the seven
churches
consorting
with angels and...

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