Richter Poems - Poems about Richter

They say there's a first time for everything My first time ever feeling the unsettling effects of an earthquake Albeit, it was ONLY 5.8 on the Richter Scale It happened during our holiday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic We were roughly 60 km from the epicentre But still found it a little unsettling to say the least The locals didn't even...

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The bizarre scene when Earth has been pressured And on Richter Scales this can be measured: When the immovable readily quake, Not a single hard rock failing to shake… A punishment too familiar to Japan At a period hitting her like a pan. Often her feared National Tragedy She’d kept devising a ‘Stop Strategy! How preventable it was ‘Quite Doubtful! Whenever it struck...

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They say there's a first time for everything My first time ever feeling the unsettling effects of an earthquake Albeit, it was ONLY 5.8 on the Richter Scale It happened during our holiday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic We were roughly 60 km from the epicentre But still found it a little unsettling to say the least The locals didn't even...

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It was a summer day dressed in boredom For four suburban Ohio boys Looking for some excitement In their banal lives from their banal toys We took some old models of Navy ships To a distant wooded stream Armed with a box of blue tip matches And mason jars filled with gasoline We loaded up the ships Full of the flammable fuel And set...

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when love starts to rattle and shake there is really no safe place then your heart splits down the center a deep, bleeding crevice rendered pieces left all over the place tears of sorrow on my face a quake of horrific magnitude rocking all that's left of you love built on a fault-line can not stand the test of time 7.0 on the Richter reduced to...

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The birds flew up suddenly, one and all I straightened the paintings upon my wall...

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