Short Aftershocks Poems

you have rocked my world
the aftershocks, tremendous
the tremors still felt
in my heart and soul...

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I’m as delicate as a Spring flower,
But stingy like a bee around this hour

I feel the aftershocks of our love,
Yet I long for your presence above...

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A shiver within.
The body shakes.
Like aftershocks 
From small earthquakes

The dam is bursting.
Enter the flood.
With waves of emotion
Left misunderstood....

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Earthquake in my heart stop rumbling, 
The storm has subsided the ebb is low, 
Veins flow with fire, unsated no more. 
Tremors and aftershocks come and go 
I live with love now on another shore....

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The intensity of our love
creates an energetic bond
so explosive where
it's aftershocks
always leave us
shaken to the core
but will always remain untouched
by the rubble hiding our hearts
beneath our rock solid land of love...

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Her body fell sideways -
Stayed there
She gurgled as if she were
Reciting a love poem
Through a storm drain

She never complained
Nor did she forgive

She plowed her mind
Ahead of her wheelchair
Gray hair electrified
With aftershocks

Burning rubber all the way...

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Moth wings thunder on windowpanes.

The distance between a screech owl
and your dreaming ear - exactly one heart-beat.

You can disappear under fingertips
that love you.

A woman is a troublesome thing.

Every drop of rain
speaks a language of aftershocks.

Blood eventually weighs you down....

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Early morning rumbling sound
As shouting people run around
Remembering the former bout
Trembling world near wiped us out
Hoping soon the nightmare ends
Quivering, quaking terrain bends
Underneath the fallen land
Aftershocks almost as grand
Kneeling down we hope and pray
Earthquake's terror goes away...

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showers of castanets 
on a tin roof
a stop-over for the night 
        on the longest hike

a bushel of owls 
in each drip of rain 
   aftershocks of mice nibbling through
the wires of a sleepless mind

listening 
through ear shaped microphones

pigeons scrabble overhead
       then clatter as they take off

the rain softens toward dawn
to a ten second splish
       
        time to move on...

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Memories stick together like old polaroid pictures in a damp box...
I hold on to the ground as it violently shakes with a wave of aftershocks...
The earth has shifted and rearranged my life; turning it upside down...
I run through those sticky pictures in my mind... A baby. A wedding gown...
The walls shake and fall apart leaving only the stains...
Everything has suddenly changed, yet the pain still remains......

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The thunder of moth wings
can only be heard in the rain.

The distance between a screech owl
and your dreaming ear  - exactly one heart-beat.

The color blue turns red in the moonlight.

Melancholy finds ways to be your vision
until you disappear into its fingertips
then it loves you.

A woman is a troublesome thing.

Every drop of rain
speaks a language of aftershocks.

Blood weighs you down eventually....

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A tongue hunts
the roof of its mouth seeking her heat.

A radar signals it's blindness
with haunted blips,
but he always knows where her flesh
melts in his hunger.

Just the other day
he walked into her
stole a piece of her mind
whirl it circled a far-off ceiling,
he took it into his birdcage chest,
wanting it to sing

but it would not,
for it had no voice but his,
and anyway
he was ever silent
inside her apocalyptic words....

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LIFE AFTER LOSS is incredibly hard to endure!
Especially after decades of a marriage incredibly secure!
It’s been 9 months and I’m gradually healing some 
I have many miles to go but I know I’ll never overcome 
The shock of the loss of my love is reverberating often
I long for the day when those aftershocks will somehow soften
But my heart will never recover from it’s painful break !
I can only hope that someday my LIFE AFTER LOSS will somehow awake!...

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Sensational shockwaves of fall, 2001
witnessed world trade struck cold.
As its backdrop collasped, we trembled in a sea
of misgivings untold. 

Brilliant aftershocks arose then in quick pursuit
though nation’s nerves were pained.
Countless rich outgiving, volunteer champions
committed, unconstrained.
	
Into unplowed soil of cowardly destruction
bounteous seeds were sown 
freely without thorns of selfish gain or glory.
Faith bloomed - distrust, overthrown....

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A tin rain ticks between
the scrabble of pigeon claws.
Time drips off a shingled edge.
In moments you can land years behind
as just the shrunken rolling head
of a whole decade.
Eyes open, you watch,
a bushel of owls hooting
as aftershocks shake
a crumbling roof -
one you are no longer under.
Listening as if on a phone,
sliding into the woe-be-gone,
you are now,
back in the backyard of nowhere.
Pigeon wings clatter,
a rain softens,
to a slow
measured splattering....

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