This quick quadrille is for DVerse’s “spike up a poem” prompt.
She is a porcupine,
Hurt one too many times creating
A spiky personality —
Don’t come too close
She warns without words.
She is a thorny rose
With wilting petals, thirsty
A paradox: someone come close
Enough to touch, but
Be careful, she warns wordlessly.
revivedwriter 
I like this description. “She is a porcupine, Hurt one too many times”
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Is it a tool of self-defence?
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Ah, the walls we build. Well done with this prompt.
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Looky but don’t touchy – boring… 😦
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I like the description of wordless warning and spiky personality.
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sadly those so fragile are only existing, better to live!
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I think I’ll keep some distance to someone like that.
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Being hurt can make us think developing a porcupine personality is safest. But it can be lonely.
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Love the sound and deep meaning in this line:
“She warns without words.”
Foreboding, that. And so so true, sometimes.
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Oh I know such people .. better to keep our distance.. 🙂 Lovely write! ❤️
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We want love, but haven’t learned the art of keeping our hearts open despite the risk involved. Your poem immediately brought to mind a quote by Rumi.
“Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
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I love Rumi!
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