Best Extinguished Poems

Extinguished Names
David J Walker

The old farmhouse looks older
	What else can it do
Burdened by weather 
Threatened with fire

Memories have long ago escaped the
Walls painted in tears 

	Windows with laughter
	Doors that clatter 
in an afternoon wind

When we left we left  
	A piece of us
In scenes behind...

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Once a long time ago 
Noah was told by God 
to build an ark below
for Mankind was found flawed.

And it'll pour down rain
for forty days and nights
until the sons of Cain
vanish, like snuffed out lights....

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the ember glows
then lifts free from the fire
extinguished flower...

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This pain you live in 
Is unmistakably so real 
This torture you’re prone too 
It kills me too 
With every breathe you choke in 
My heart pulses “No” 
With every weakened bone
I shout, toss, and spin 
But although that 
You speak to me 
With words,...

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Stuck in a little glass cage

Could be there for quite an age

No fresh air and always there alone

No one to talk to in my little home

 

People walk past every day without a peep

No one even notices me there half asleep

THEN!! all of a sudden...

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There is a broken soul living here...
Within these dusty off-white walls – 
There is a breathing ghost, with sputtering candles for eyes 
And a suit of slowly decaying flesh 
Clothing her splintered bones...
There is a terminal patient sitting here, 
On this ignominious chair, legs crossed,...

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Sometimes, for no reason,
my depression returns, for a season.

When I feel my heart begin to crumble,
I'm at my weakest point and usually stumble.

What I wouldn't do to have a hand to reach for,
but, all my lady loves have gone out the door.

We each contain within...

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I have to let you go now
my dear sexy friend

You have 
steadied my hand
been a light
I could hold on to
in those darkest of times

So much time
spent
spending

With nothing to show
but ash and smoke...

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RAPED AND EXTINGUISHED IN THE SANCTUARY

Malevolent violence in UNIBEN, Nigeria
a virgin soul in a sacred home,
Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa gang-rapped,
bleeding like a ?? watermelon.
The University church floor and walls 

couldn't surpress her screams
instead, witnessed her walls broken down,
walls preserved for 22 years, demolished.
She came to...

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Where is our love, where did it go?
When did it slip away
My heart is sad for I loved you so
How did we come to this cruel day

I’m still the one you promised to love
To cherish and care for all of our life
We’d weather all storms,...

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A flame extinguished
With a heart full of anguish
No more sparkle in the eye
No more tears to cry
Living turned dormant
Longing made torment
Gone the will
Fled the ability to fulfill
Left forsaken and hollow
Absent the voice to follow

A flame extinguished 
All hope relinquished
A creature forlorn
Too long had it mourned
Once...

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I lit a fire in your heart
You lit a fire in mine
We would’ve watched these flames grow stronger over-time 
But we are too clumsy
Our hearts are as fragile as oil lanturns
That we have both dropped 
And left burning upon the ground
They will say, 
“The wind...

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On a nameless night, under a sky sprinkled with extinguished stars,
Thoughts trickle like oil in the engine of an old dream,
And I, a lost acrobat, sway on the thin thread of life,
Trying to grasp in my palms the essence of a world that smolders quietly.
You...

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where has your light gone
celestial luminary....
spectrum now greyscale
cold rain and raven's stares

warmth to frost
i exhale dark misery
the sunrise halts with your goodbye
rainbows turn to rain as you disappear

night and star
black rivers flow
out of my heart
it's sackcloth groans sound deep in the night

hope wilting in death's...

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Soaked into the mystery 
of turquoise night
Soaring through time 
glide in pure light


Helium engorged , 
floating in the wind
in peace thought I , 
inveiglement brought sins


Divine grace slayed 
mercy was splayed,
lifeblood split , 
eternity is made


Falling and swirling 
opened eyes blaze,
shrieking of glory
black night sways


Veils...

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