Best Fizzles Poems
Wish Upon a Star
...WISH UPON A STAR
eyes drawn upward —
like a candle on a cake
first birthday or too old
the lottery is billions upon billions
tickets bought
blowing dandelion seeds for surety
tremo......
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Categories:
fizzles, money,
Form:
Free verse
Last Call
...Songs unsung will disappear,
as breathless as a stone, the fear
of Armageddon fills the air
and gathers strength against a prayer
that withers, fizzles into nought,
despite the lessons we were taught......
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Categories:
fizzles, philosophy, love, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhythm and Blues
...To handle dreadful time, to cherish it
although I have no gall for such-
past the ennui of night’s workload,
this jive which I embrace relentlessly
fizzles like soapsuds in my nails;
a voice qu......
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Categories:
fizzles, music, recovery from, stress,
Form:
Free verse
Autumnal
...Put away your bathing suit the dips in the pool are done
get the rake out of the garage, jumping in the leaves is fun.
The Halloween decorations include the ginormous spider;
exchange the ice-cold......
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Categories:
fizzles, autumn, color,
Form:
Sonnet
Poem of Lies
...My heart fizzles on feeling your presence
My body like a howitzer that fires love shortly to where you are
Trust me I'll handle your heart carefully, it too nice to be broken
My love for you flo......
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Categories:
fizzles, humor, lust,
Form:
Imagism
ambivalence
...standing on one leg
the crane trusts in good fortune ---
fate of fish fizzles
......
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Categories:
fizzles, bird, fish, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Making Memories
...Every day we live might be
A day that we’ll remember,
Burning brightly just before
It fizzles to an ember.
How are we to know at first
Which memories will stick?
The choices aren’t ours to make –
T......
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Categories:
fizzles, introspection, day,
Form:
Rhyme
A Hole In Your Heart
...Thunder rattles windowpanes
as rain strikes against the glass.
But the lightning soon fizzles,
and the downpours quickly pass.
You envy the storm's freedom,
stuck in your web of despai......
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Categories:
fizzles, angst, cry, depression, hurt,
Form:
Quatrain
Fat
...Fat is easy
Thin is hard
When sugar is in your favorite candy bar
Soda it fizzles so sweet
Cakes pies and cookies are such treats
Candy is dandy on your tongue
Deep fried and Southern crispy gi......
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Categories:
fizzles, food, humor, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Do Not Use the F Word
...When people say don’t use the F word, do they have any idea how formidable fellowship, flux, foxy, finite, and figure-head are freely and fervently formed?
The F word?
What F word?
This crazy adm......
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Categories:
fizzles, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Dragon Giggles
...Dragon Giggles
To make a dragon giggle
you must wiggle both your ears
stand upon one foot
scream and shout and hope he hears.
If he falls down on the ground
and his fire fizzles out
you......
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Categories:
fizzles, children, courage, fantasy, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
Beachwalking
...I walk barefoot on the beach
Where the water greets the land.
Waves with their wet fingers reach,
Then retreat from where I stand.
White foam fizzles on the sand.
I pick up some rocks and shel......
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Categories:
fizzles, beach, nature, sea,
Form:
Quintain (English)
shores of ardor -
...
I stand upon cold sands of lovers, past
surveying, bleak, the misty metaphors
a crimson blush of hope so setting fast
its wake left by a tempest on this shore
......
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Categories:
fizzles, love, memory, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
Last Call
...Songs unsung will disappear,
as breathless as a stone, the fear
of Armageddon fills the air
and gathers strength against a prayer
that withers, fizzles into nought,
despite the lessons we were t......
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Categories:
fizzles, war, universe,
Form:
Verse
Winter's Solstice In Aleppo
...That twinkling on the horizon ain’t no
star just another Russian fighter closing
to lay its clutch of cluster bombs
or a missile cruising in.
Winter’s solstice approaches, the rocket's
flare f......
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Categories:
fizzles, winter,
Form:
Free verse