Our prompt at Three Word Wednesday was to create a poem using these three words: fragile, rampart, tremor
FRAGILE TREMOR
She seems invulnerable, so this was inevitable
The strongest fortress cannot hold its ramparts forever;
so the toughest girl on the block
cannot hold back the torrential reign of love
For beneath her crunchy exterior
lies a fragile veneer
covering a heart of molten chocolate
And now comes a presence
A murmur
A whisper of change breezing through her being
A tremble, a tremor, then
a collapse of her carefully maintained façade
She’s hopelessly heartfelt
More than a smidgen smitten
Finally fallen
© 2010 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
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gautami tripathy
This poem has that fragile quality…very well written..
corners
Sharp Little Pencil
Gautami. you know how much I love your work. I appreciate the kind words! Peace, Amy
Deborah
Wonderful, I loved this!!
Sharp Little Pencil
Ah, Deborah, and I loved yours, too. Can’t remember if you are one of those Blogspot folks whose blog won’t take my comments… but Caterpillar is a name I always look for on the lists of postings! Amy
Sumit Sarkar
nice…love the title… 🙂
Sharp Little Pencil
Thanks, Sumit. I went over about 12 titles before I settled on that one, I’m so obsessive, LOL. Amy
Susan Helene Gottfried
I love this! So many of us saw something dark in the prompt words, but you really turned it on its head and brought some light into things. WAY cool.
Sharp Little Pencil
Thank you very much, Susan. Too bad I missed “rampant” and used “rampart” instead!!
I’ll pop over and see what you’ve got cooking now. Amy