Best Quake Poems

The copse of aspens quake.
Horses graze and cows laze
as languid summer splays
emeralds in its wake,
low fields to overtake
the prospect's cyan glaze.

Immutable the sun
in lambent saffron drape
above the lucid scape
contemplates the glisten,
auscultates the paean,
the whispering of crepe

as runes the leaves impart
to dulcify the heart.*

*Hexsonnetta is a...

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Quiet fault lines wake up.
Quivering earth rumbles,
Quickly igniting fears;
Qualms of disaster loom.
Quality of buildings -
Questionable if safe.
Quest begins for relief.

7/28/19...

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a rude awakening
earths shifting crust
towering waves break...

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A little pre-dawn shaking was going on around LA.
Early morning risers got a jolt on St. Patrick’s Day.
This quake went the same way so many had gone before.
Today, it measured on the Richter scale at 4.4.
Nobody was hurt, and no damage had been done.
However, experiencing...

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A sudden heartquake:
Tsunami of love follows
to sweep away soul....

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Earth quakes
Rocks slip

Tremors
jolting

Tins clash
Men scream

Ground cracks
Mud caves

Sea growls
Boats sway

Waves roar
Tides crash

Birds roost
Beasts cry

Fear creeps
Knees shake

Rubble
surrounds 

Fate sneers
Death waits

God helps
Quake stills

All wreck
No death

Silence
pervades


May.29.2022

~Placed eighth~

A Brian Strand Premiere Poetry Contest...

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Before anyone could say another word,
they all heard,
the quake,
a low, slight blow,
ready to grow,
and put on one hell of a show,
it was a distant rumble at first,
it grew rapidly, the buildings shook,
that’s all it took,
as rubble crumbled down,
crushing the ground,
cracking the streets,
and the earth opening...

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I was truly saddened by the massive quake
that shook China’s Sichuan province;
It was a huge disaster, a furious nature
that at times like this is indeed doleful.

I saw images of devastation all over,
I saw human sufferings in this situation;
I couldn’t believe their profound sadness
seeing deaths in...

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Mother Earth shivers violently, quakes;
Her fracked core splits apart and
She weeps for her children....

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Sown by beings courageous
The seeds of unsayables
Streak across landscapes echoless,
Vast and conscious of our mindsets,
To sprout home a shift paradigm
That gives insights to the sightless, quake not,
And voices to the mute....

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Disasters have plagued our planet since the dawn of time,
When primitive creatures rose from primordial slime, 
And a comet came down to hit a dinosaur’s head,
Causing a headache so bad, he was better off dead.
So, he asked the plain question, “to be or not to...

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Baby smiles in the hammock
Mother responds with sweetness

Human mind cannot predict
Unlike the signs of doom

Many plans are written
In to-do lists

Not knowing that
A thousand care and dreams

Would disappear in minutes
And the floor shakes......

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Irish accents quake my female southland.
Males 'neath Newsboy Caps stimulate dreamland.
Irish yearns may want touch,
Did not seek to feel such.
Ireland trips could stimulate mate's backhand....

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A quake took place
between my shoulder blades
teeth ground to dust behind my face
the scraping of tectonic plates
scared me to my hiding place
bottles and blankets, a child’s space
it cannot withstand the shakes
that are now all too commonplace....

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stealthily hiding behind gray white mists
wispy smoke rising heavenward in twists
within caldera red hot lava boils
menacing flora, fauna and topsoils
beware if ground beneath feet starts to quake
creating distance the best choice to make

don't count on Planet Earth being your friend
always has potential to bring our...

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