Quake Poems

Irish Accents and Caps

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.

The Great California Quake of 2024

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 be?” 
And invented Tylenol with codeine, number three.  

Before

Where nightly mornings quake

The beauty of the wilderness
The ghost I never called
And now it’s coming down to this
The promise has been sold
We walk here in this nothingness
Of fortune yet untold
Of caring in this gracefulness
The daring and the bolt

The pain that never left my side
The mourning of the night
The wounds of each and every fight
How could time set this

Relapse

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.

The Quiver

A thought
Of dreed
A primal fear
Sends a shiver
A quiver
Down the spine
And through
The soul
That makes
The body shake
And quake
A quick glance around
To see
If anyone noticed
The impromptu
Involuntary dance
Of the soul
In your body
That held
It down
That thought
That dreed
Those tortures
Of your
Soul

Fair Warning

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 end
please try not to take it personally
planets must do what

Quake Footles

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

Aspin Quake and Big Breath Take

Have a Horn Haiku

saw each Aspin quake
another big breath would take
then my breakfast make

after we had supped
whole world Putin would disrupt
extremely corrupt

destruction apply
his modus operandi
harm all he would try

price to pay for peace
we must respect police
nephew or a niece

what we all had heard
Putin and herd are absurd 
up much trouble stirred

My poems are either part

Christchurch Earthquakes Quake

My gaze lowers building to the ground
Multilayers empty landscapes, graffiti, murals.
Past buildings merge into present car parks. 
I currently buy my daughters shoes here in this
empty section. We eat here at this lovely restaurant, this fenced off parking rubble. I breakdown and cry outside the WINZ building after inhumane dysfunctional treatment. At least that building

Did the Earth Quake

Did   the earth weep when we paved the streets
Tarmac. cobbles, flat slabs  of  grey stone
Leaving  merely holes for trees long roots?

Covering in our cities all that’s deep
Startling ancient graves and  bits of bone
Did the earth weep when we paved the streets?

Motorways  increased that tarmacked  roof
As we drive

Quake

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

California Earthquakes

What a horrifying two days people in California had,
I was shocked, my breath taken away, so very sad,
For all my poetry soup friends that live there or close,
Hope you are all safe, you must have all with fear froze,
Our prayers are with you, and you are in everyone’s thoughts,
Hope scare for more earthquakes has lessened,

Another Quake At Dino Mart

Once there was a ginormous purple dinosaur.
His nickname was “Tiny”, and he was very poor.
One day he went stomping into the yummy store
wanting Fruity Pebbles; he didn’t have any more.

One old box was left on the shelf and it was ripped.
Irritated was Tiny, he trampled and flipped. 
He ran full speed around the store, fell

Quake

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

Quake

W# Earth quake 
So silently clear nature stands still
Few seconds stood on that hill

Rumble like thunder in the distance
Earth calling our very existence 

The ground it shakes  what seems eternity
What is this?  Have I lost my sanity 

A silence again fills the air 
Earth again still as if nothing to declare 

Sweet song

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