Best Fizzle Poems

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Too many hurricanes are causing havoc this season.  We might as well have a limerick collaboration about them since they seem to be in...

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This is what life’s all about:
We barrel in and totter out.

Along the way, we smile or pout
And try our best to conquer doubt.

We may be...

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WARNING: The following poem is a figment of the author's imagination and deals with fictional characters.....MEN! ;) (THIS IS FOR FUN, MEN, SO DON'T GO...

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champagne toast ~ 
      hopes and dreams for the new year fizz before they fizzle


Susan Ashley
December 28, 2017


~ Second Place...

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Wheels of life overtake busy hours
racing along fast highway of time,
and jammed thoughts forget sunset’s delight
while roses, once in love, stoop... tires fizzle,
even when the...

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Chillin' with my Diet Coke
out here in the sun.
Iced caffeine with a fizzle
is my number one
refresher. . . . 
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

For Nathan's Coffee House Contest...

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My
birthday
joy brings sweet
treats of cake and
ice cream, loving smiles
warm me as well wishes 
abound.  The flames burn brightly
as they flutter and twinkle and
my happiness...

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An old herbal gard’ner turned bard
dedicated and well-versed
now works his pen from his backyard
in plants and poems immersed.

His choice nouns engender meaning
cleverly minted with scents.
Rare...

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It’s the fourth - fireworks; the fizzle of stars.
The colorful display of power of the people —
waving of the red, white and blue; freedom
rings, slowly,...

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Together, we'd swim the depths of our souls,
splashing and playing in love's limpid pools.
And we'd adopt each other's hopes and goals,
love-struck teenagers and romantic fools.

Holding...

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I was running up the mountain, 
Just dog tired,
Suffering,
My mind drifting 
Between the Infinite Rift.
My Aumakua (spirit animal) stops on a branch nearby.
He starts to...

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Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned 
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory calm
Elapse the chaos,...

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Now she's here 
and now she's there, 
flittering and flying 
through the hours in a day, 
laughing now, then crying. 
   
Her moods...

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The cadent curls recede upon the shore,
with fizzle sounds like brushes on a drum,
their once brave tune declined forevermore,
beneath the growing shades of a beach...

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