Best Snuffed Poems

I came across you 
as I stumbled through 
a darkened alley

shadows of the makeshift fire
shed light on your face

I wasn't sure if you were smiling or just 
trying to unnerve me 

after all it was late and I was alone 

there I stood almost like...

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You put a jar over the flame, 
Snuff me out before I have the chance
To burn.  How could you-- 
Leave me alone in here? 
My strength, like the wax, 
Can dripdripdrip for so long until
 I end up a pool of goo. 
My patience,...

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When the little fire of life in me snuffed off
This poem will be complete...

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Bad light stops play




The muscians retire



Note: Haydn's Farewell Symphony...

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I feel fragile as a candle,
Which I find hard to handle.
Like a clock that no longer ticks
Or glue that doesn't stick

Once lit, a candle burns,
Getting smaller every day
The slightest puff of wind
Can blow its light away

We all have our weaknesses,
Especially as we age
Fragility and meekness
Are...

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‘Please write on me’,
She implored
He had been lured
By her charms
And the writings
Had come out
A deluge
Nary a day
She would go away
From his works
Though the embers
Still lurk
And refuse to die
The ink
Has gone dry
Those quarrels
Those entreaties
Those fights
Those make-ups
And then
Those flights of fancy
Those compositions
With hidden meanings
Which no one could...

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I hear that he was very talented
At the Elite schools he attended
With flying colors his exams he passed
His parents expectations he surpassed
And a new record in his school he kept


His future looked very bright
Which was only right
Afterall, is it not right for the bright?
That their...

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You have just blown your last candle out
It does no good to scream and shout.
Even if you try to lie low,
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
The time has come for you to find out,
Who possesses all the clout....

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faith(less), a coronavirus poem
by michael r. burch

those who believed
and Those who misled
lie together at last
in the same narrow bed

and if god loved Them more
for Their strange lack of doubt,
he kept it well hidden
till he snuffed Them out.

Keywords/Tags: god, love, faith, belief, evolution, coronavirus, plague, disease,...

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