Best Fizzle Out Poems

Too many hurricanes are causing havoc this season.  We might as well have a limerick collaboration about them since they seem to be in the news.  Please join in by sending me your limerick in a soup mail or email.


Hurricane Maria is the...

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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 rebels or devout,
Remain unnoticed or have clout,

Yet we survive, in flood or drought,
Our whispers rising to a shout

As we fight...

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A pale, ghostly moon rises
at night when the day is done.
And orange and tangerine
get bled from a crimson sun.

Space is draped in black velvet,
pinned with galaxies of light.
And swirls of gold filigree
confetti the dark of night.

Twirling pulsars and quasars
provide rhythm, spinning in place.
And in this...

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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, surreptitious and warm.

In the hushed embrace of the twilight sky,
A silence plummets, ambrosial all nearby.
Astonied hearts stand in solicitous awe.
A...

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Cows cuss under their breath during these winters
Being under a blanket is not warm if made of snow
Fish get expelled from their school playing hooky
Never learning to avoid nibbling on those jiggers
Forests are full of trees with being first issues
Worshiping the sun and boasting with...

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last burst in night’s sky
stars shimmer and fizzle out. . . . 
 fireflies dance on

For the Poet Doctor's 'HAIKU in 5 7 5 only - Volume 1' Contest...

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Wonder into the woods with ax in hand
Take care to be on time when you arrive

The forest is dark. It slumbers.  Don't be alarmed 
Bring an umbrella in case it rains

Rotted fallen lumber is benign.  It does not harm 
Never chop the big...

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O Grunge Princess, I know today your love
brims over, idle, for the rebel boy
like weed you keep, unsmoked, sitting among
your secrets in a box; the smells they cloy
and force you into longing. Come what may,
Space Mermaid, your boy is just a dream.
He's not your happiness,...

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Just a word against acrimony 
the key is really this, you see
don’t let the bully rule
by reacting to their hideous drool
turn the intentional blind eye 
away from their taunting cries
without “attention” they fizzle out
vitriol dries upon the spout
take the “high road”, it can be done
quickly...

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He was a traveling man,
never stayed in one place too long
At every bar and tavern he visited,
he loved to play his favorite song
He was a rambling man,
just doing the best he can
After a hot meal, shower and a shave,
he was off hitting the road again
Him...

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It’s a highway nightmare, or it should be,
but no one’s afraid (too much)
and the road just thunders and hummmms
on and on and on and on
under that greedy summer sun.

All of their guns are cocked and loaded
but we’re still wondering:
	Water or bullets?
	Joke or truth?
	Which is which?
I’m...

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I have other plans to suit my life.
 
The time has come when you just have 
to stop pretending that you really care.
 
I care not for your attitude
nor your ever-changing moods
I hate experiencing tempestuous feelings
of unsatisfied hunger:
births of lusty fires that always fizzle out
insatiate...

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Hell found me like the stars light up the sky
Won't my hellish ways, 
Ever die or fizzle out of this faze
No matter how hi I fly
It always ends up in a maze
Hold on tight with both hands

Let go of my hellish ways that seem to...

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Roman Candle
I lost your respect
Soon I felt like your insect
Dodging your repellant.
And your constant inspection.

Once spoon 
Fed the 
Nourishing 
Golden honey
Of your love

Without notice
Left in the cold
With a mighty shove
And without any money.

How could a love
As hot as a 
Sparkling Roman candle
Fizzle out to be
As...

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I have now - 
I had then
But that's an old tale of sorrow.
Let's go and have a drink.
My self-esteem has been hurt
and nothing but medicine will fix it.
I alone am to blame.
You, regarding me as a local nuisance,
You just laugh
I just fizzle out.
I don't see...

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