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 drawn curtains
Someday
Lightening will strike in an
Act of vengeance by the Devine
The long-awaited flames and
The tears we left behind
Will never be enough to
Extinguish the names
Categories:
extinguished, allegory, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
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.
Categories:
extinguished, bible, emotions, feelings, imagery,
Form:
Quatrain
the ember glows
then lifts free from the fire
extinguished flower
Categories:
extinguished, nature
Form:
Haiku
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, weary words, and gentle care
You speak of feelings you have
Kept Hidden for me
And I stop the screaming, the tossing, the breaking, the beating
I freeze
My sense of denial, of fear, pushes me back
But the other senses
The sense of conscience, of affection, of claim
Claiming to own a good heart
Claiming to know what to say
Claiming to know what to do
Assuming knowing where this goes
But those feelings, those vulnerable sensations
End up killing the people they own
Too great is not to be greater
But to be destroyed when becoming greatest
Regardless of the destruction those feelings are submitted into
They thrive to appear, to break surface
Will they turn into something beautiful?
Something alive and wistful
Or will they self-destruct because of other feelings?
Will they vanish into ample emptiness?
A squander of fire to be extinguished
These senses consume me, slay me silently
And time, seconds tick swiftly
Until I am bound to eternal silence
And unutterable misery
In a cage of impassive breathing
They drug me into.
Categories:
extinguished, angst, depression, introspection, me,
Form:
Free verse
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 someone yells out "Fire"
Sure they couldn't raise their voices any higher
Some bloke smashes the glass with a pick
The shattering sound near makes me sick
Grabs me by the handle and gives me a shake
Think to myself, settle down mate for pity's sake
Tosses me around without a single care
If I could speak at all I would surely swear
Rips out my pin with force, was very fierce
Really hurt me too it was my only body pierce
Grabs my hose in his hand and opens my spout
Excited he is as I shoot all of that white stuff out
As I start to empty I feel a little bit of shame
At least my juices helped douse the flame
He shakes me harder and I give one last spurt
Then throws me aside and that's what really hurt
Done my job now I'm empty, completely spent
Hit the concrete hard and my handle is bent
"No one is hurt" I heard a fireman say with a grin
Then he picked me up and threw me in to the bin
I guess I'm useless now that I don't have any sap
Perhaps someone will find me, use me for scrap
Categories:
extinguished, abuse, bullying, depression, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
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 us a flame,
some nights it burns brighter, most days it's the same.
When I believe myself to be totally alone,
my light is almost extinguished, almost gone.
And then I think of who's still here,
my two precious daughters who are very dear.
Then my flame gets hotter, grows stronger
and I know in my heart I can last for a while longer.
While I'm capable of living much more with some lady to love,
I realize that God has me here for reasons only He knows above.
So, I'll try to be more light and do more right
and keep flame I've been given burning through each day and night.
Categories:
extinguished, depression, feelings, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
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,
One foot dangling, toenails painted a hart’s blood red...
Her fingers tapping her death knell on the table,
Dancing over the coffee stains...
There is a condemned inmate reclining here...
On the skids, savouring death row,
She is courting her demise with the candour
And low self esteem, of a seasoned flirt –
With that deadened mask-like smile...
Her nerve endings blunted and firing off malfunctioning sparks
She has no hope – forgot the meaning of the word years ago
In its place lies a gentle coffin of mourning...
Resting where joy should be, in a dirt-filled hole,
A grave for her sins...
And strewn on the fresh turned earth, her heart -
An empty locket, scratched and tarnished by the claw-marks,
By the spattered venom, of dead and dying loves...
Of her soul’s final throes, before the darkness flooded in –
And blew out the tenuous flames
Of those two guttering candles
Categories:
extinguished, death, depressiondeath, death,
Form:
Free verse
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 put that out”
“The rain must’ve gotten to it”
“Fire fighters came and shut that down”
But what can become of it when your love is left out in the open
Exposed to the elements
It will only vanish and become smoke
White, wispy and disappearing
The ghost of what we could’ve had are
Carried off into nothing
Categories:
extinguished, fire, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
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, we’d rise above
A couple, a pair, husband and wife
But it seems in your anger you need someone to blame
And I’m always there in your line of fire
Such is your wrath you don’t remember my name
I’m only an object for venting your ire
But this violent storm I can no longer thole
It’s time to break free if I’m to survive
I’ve given too much, I’ve given my all
There’s no morsel left , I’m hardly alive
I’m walking out of this life, out of the door
Leaving behind all the hurt and the pains
The tender young love that we knew before
A heart-wrenching memory is all that remains.
Categories:
extinguished, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
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 study...Sunday,
sons of Belial came to waste,
they saw the flooding tears
yet the fire extinguisher was a tool,
(even when absolutely not needed),
to quench the painful fire they lit,
as her life was extinguished,
helplessly she bleeds in blood,
profusely, I bleed in ink.
Rape in heaven's registration centre (Church)
will only get you a pleasure from hell,
typical trait and fate of a cursed clan.
Rapist...! Cruelty - aiding and abetting them
to the cognomen of nefarious filthy folks
but let this voice chant you, Vera, midnight's ire
and sing justice until lives
find sustenance from the stash of usurpers.
Here's another voice quenched broad-day light
causing a now venomous voice, trumpeted,
stronger & louder than rushing of oceans.
The truth will not be hushed
but will smell like summers distillation.
VickWizzy.
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}.
Copyright © June 1st, 2020.
Categories:
extinguished, 1st grade, for her,
Form:
ABC
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
Categories:
extinguished, addiction, break up,
Form:
Free verse
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 don't have to write to feel poetry in your veins,
It's there, in the smell of gasoline and the smoke rising to the sky,
In the eyes of the one who fills tanks with untold stories,
A poet without words, dancing among car queues and time.
I am an artist of the trapeze, not fitting into molds,
With my heart suspended between a yesterday and an uncertain tomorrow,
Each leap a long verse, each catch a moment of grace,
For between falls and flights, true poetry is born.
So, in the silence of the night, among ticking engines,
I wonder, who am I to name my art?
A trapeze artist of destiny, a dreamer in the shadow of light,
Or perhaps just a soul that knows how to breathe poetry without words.
Categories:
extinguished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
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 did it glisten
As all came to listen
Once did it radiate and glow
Given all the world to grow
But somewhere vitality
Surrendered to reality
A flame extinguished
Ambitions vanquished
Even Fear packed his things
No longer could he bring
A feeling of mortality
A reprieve of morality
Should we pity it
Empathize with its forfeit
No, this path it chose
And this it knows
Categories:
extinguished, angst, depression, sad, time,
Form:
Couplet
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 embrace
black tears
black tears
black tears from your face
i reach for you in the eerie glow
i reach for you, but there's just snow.....
light is fading now
as its dimming down
i wander in mist
extinguished
Categories:
extinguished, lost love, love,
Form:
In the desert of silence, where thoughts are born from extinguished sands,
A creature without garments, with eyes burning like fallen stars,
Holds its pulsating heart in dry hands, like a poisoned gift,
And bites into it, eagerly, like a forbidden fruit of knowledge.
I ask it: "Is it sweet, friend, the taste of your cosmic blood?"
"Bitterness calls me," it replies, with a voice of a lost echo,
"But I feed on it, for bitterness is my hidden secret,
And because it is mine, just as the universe hides its stars in the night."
Under the vast sky, its soul is a river flowing among constellations,
And in the desert's silence, its whispers entwine with the wind,
Like a choir of spirits singing the longing for forgotten infinity,
Seeking meaning between chaos and life's ungrasped order.
Between us, the chasm is just a dream of separation, an ephemeral dance,
In which we seek the light that pierces the darkness of being,
And in the heart's bitterness, we find solace for eternal longing,
Like an ancient incantation, binding us to fallen stars.
We embrace solitude, like a jewel of shadow and light,
In which all the untold stories of time shine,
And in this mystery, we find ourselves again, fragments of the eternal,
Reflecting in the mirror of the universe, where all is one and the same.
We dance on the edge of the abyss, holding hands with shadows,
Seeking answers in the silence between heartbeats,
And in each verse that flows, like an underground river of thoughts,
We lose and find ourselves, in the cosmic melancholy of eternity.
Categories:
extinguished, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse