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

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