Best Fizzles Poems

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...

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WISH UPON A STAR

eyes drawn upward —
   like a candle on a cake
first birthday or too old

the lottery is billions upon billions
 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 despair.
If...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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I stand upon cold sands of lovers, past
          surveying, bleak, the misty metaphors
   ...

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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...

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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...

Read more of this work...

Songs unsung will disappear,
as breathless as a stone, the fear
of Armageddon fills the air
and gathers strength against the prayer
that withers, fizzles into naught,
despite the lessons...

Read more of this work...