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Best Snuff Poems

Below are the all-time best Snuff poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of snuff poems written by PoetrySoup members


Snuff Out
The days are cool,
The nights are cold.
My laughter fools,
My smile holds

No need, no want, no spark.

The minutes strain, 
The hours bruise.
My memories wane,
My thoughts refuse

To...

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Categories: snuff, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Within
Within


Play Slipknot’s ‘Snuff’ song four times and use these lyrics:
(Do not use the official video clip. It has more than just the song.)


I still feel...

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© Aa Harvey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snuff, friend, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Will Not Break
I will not bow
I will not break
To think I might
Is a mistake

I know the truth
it sets me free
No matter what
you think of me!

Eileen Manassian

Matthew 12:20-...

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Categories: snuff, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Daily Balm
i love the taste of the moon...
tangerine, compared to the metal taste
of the blistering noontime temperature.
and to inhale the embroidery  of evening,
to me, is...

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Categories: snuff, dedication, space,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Never Silent
Those who die unjustly
because of bigotry
because of prejudice
because of unadulterated hate
are never silent
their blood cries out
like the blood of innocent Abel
the anguished cries
"I can't Breathe"
"I'm...

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Categories: snuff, discrimination, judgement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Grandpa
Grandpa

a kind face
 
skin leathery and creased from years of working in the sun
 
long jowls like a basset hounds
 
sad droplet eyes
 
always a...

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Categories: snuff, grandfather, grandmother, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Say It How It Is In My Eyes
Strange this all falls on deaf ears 
a mockery of justice twist whichever way you wish 
people killed in a hospital act of terror yes...

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Categories: snuff, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Think of Me Come Nightfall
Think of me as the eyes of late nightfall
crawling through a wafting sill
where lone moon cuddles dimmed glow
before she quietly slowly lays
herself on a cradle...

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Categories: snuff, devotion, night, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Eternity
I am looking right at you and you don’t even know it.
I will deter your intent and throw you off a steep cliff.
But in the...

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© Ann Rich  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: snuff, dedication, devotion, faith, funny,
Form: Sonnet
Ain'T Got a Clue

Who cut the curd cyanide cheese,
thinning out the rank suspect crowd?
Who gassed death in the air bleed,
releasing an odor murder most foul?

Follow the phew olfactory...

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Categories: snuff, fun, humorous, mystery, word
Form: Light Verse
I Am Who I Am
I am who I am regardless of who you want me to be
I am finally figuring out what it is to be free
Lose a little...

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Categories: snuff, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Wisps
"Friend,
Mind wandering through misty woods.
You don't understand your purpose.
Friend,
I knew you too little,
Please do not shed your salty emotions,
Not out of anger, not out of...

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Categories: snuff, confusion, dad, daughter, death,
Form: Free verse
Lacrimosa
He goes by the name of Lacrimosa
He is the plain picture of a man
Those who don’t know him see him as a monster
But you and...

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Categories: snuff, dark, depression, grief, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
River of Blood


...Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am
against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the
great dragon that lieth in the midst of his
rivers, which hath said,...

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Categories: snuff, death, judgement, religious, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Duck's Plea
There is a fly 
in the oinkment 
Someone ate pork chops , 
the duck is in 
a plucking bad mood, 
threats of assassination 
and shooting...

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Categories: snuff, humor, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs