POEM STARTER
Write a poem about the heart, focusing on its physicality and actions.
Avoid the kind of metaphors and language which are normally associated with the heart's emotional connection.
Off Functioning
I feel the friction
My heart has prickles all over it
The friction ,the texture.
My heart isn’t slippery
Or smooth in any way.
A beat per second
. Feels like eternity
Malfunctioning.
Blood circuits , cutting off.
Veins sting and die off
Shrivel up
Where does that 2,000 gallons of blood go?
My body barely moves or even keeps me warm.
My pericardium =thinly layered fluid sac that lets your heart move/beat
Mind is gone, nowhere to be found
Mangy and tore up
Thinly sliced wholes cuts thru it
Instead
My heart burns laying here.
In the dark
Like napalm
Spreading like a wildfire
My heart pumps and glows in a fleshy pink way
Anything I touch burns down
My only love that loves me back.
Keeps me warm at night is
Fire.