Writing Prompt
POEM STARTER
‘Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body.’
Write a poem that begins with this line. Is it literal or metaphorical?
Writings
Trigger
I can feel the heat building. The gut wrenching inferno that rips through my body like wild fire.
It’s happening again but how do I stop it?
My brain reacts to keep me safe. But what is the danger it’s protecting me from?
I was once a child.
My innocence was stolen by the very people responsible for protecting me.
I’ve perfected my act over the years. When I had no choice but to smile and ...
Puppetmaster 
Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body.
I swear to God, I’ve never been this hot for anybody.
You send my defenses into full blown karate.
Every time I’m near you, I feel so fucking naughty.
I wanna taste your lips, trace my tongue along your body.
Puppetmaster pull my strings. The devil lives inside my body.....
I’m So Nervous
Earthquakes no longer feel foreign to my body
My hands tremble
My muscles strain
My face starts to heat
Drops of sweat fall from my forehead to my chest
I’m getting hot
The air is too thick in here
But I shake
And my teeth chatter
Like I’m in the middle of a blizzard
I wonder if the seismic waves of my body shake more than me
Does the house shake?
The neighborhood?
The state?
I pre...
Earthquakes
Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body
The stable ground, crumbling in an instant
The aftershocks, ripping through my veins
Have become the norm, an expectation
Why would any of this be easy?
Every time the ship starts to right itself
Another wave comes crashing overboard
Submerging me once again
Suffocating me once again
When I had only learned how to breathe again
When I had only le...
On The Come Up
Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body
I move with the strength of tectonic plates, not gonna stop me
You don’t know me at all
But I’m here to let you know, this is just the get-go
I’m on the come up, volume one, scaring the hoes
I’m not here for fame
I’m in love with the game, which exists in my brain
Even when I’m writing this verse,
I can teach you about the universe
Seriously, can y...
Earthquakes
“Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body,”
I whisper to the moon, as she rises above the sea
Her light, a balm to my soul, a salve to my wounds
As I stand here, amidst the waves, feeling attuned
I am no longer afraid of the tremors deep within
The shaking ground, the quivering skin
For I have learned to move with the tides
To ride the waves, and find my stride
Like the ocean, I am vast ...
Mania
Earthquakes no longer feel foreign to my body
My mind is racing and my ego is gaudy
Hurricanes no longer cause shivers down my spine
Everything they are is everything that is mine
Tornadoes no longer can blow my life over
My body stands fast as the grass and the clover
Thunder no longer scares me at night
The sounds from above are the sounds in my mind
Forever no longer sounds like sure death
...
Tremors
Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body
He was a magnitude eight
That crumbled my world after shaking it so fiercely
A quiet storm before the turmoil began
Bountiful love
True and passionate
With desperate longing and secrecy
Tremors came to surface
Too powerful to contain
I thought it best to release them
The tremors that shook me
Relief and confession
Unburdening my soul
...
God Help Me
Earthquakes no longer feel so foreign to my body
My mind shifts like the plates
My mind
My bones
My skin
Everything is changing
Everything is falling
The damage is done
I try to rebuild
The shifting starts again
More violent
More intense
More devastating
How do you build a solid foundation on cracked ground
How do you plant a garden in contaminated soil
How do you fix something that Go...