POEM STARTER
Inspired by Maranda Quinn
Write a poem in any form, on any topic you like, which uses a single metaphor throughout.
Try to develop the metaphor as the poem progresses, and use it as a central theme throughout.
A Wildfire Brain
She asked me what it felt like
How a girl like me
so chaotically full of life
Could survive with a brain so
Similar to a wildfire
I answered with the flames
Spewing from my brain
All going their separate ways
I couldn’t finish what I wanted to say
As she knew the chaos that next came
A thousand words and a thousand thoughts
She cried and cried and then she laughed
I forget to answer what she’d asked
As the wildfire in me desperately fought
To win a place in her heart
I wanted to tell her all there is
But I got distracted and I missed
The flames succeeded once again
In their chaos creating list
Oh to be normal, I wished