Long Fizzle Poems

Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks,
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps flapping, bright colors...

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It's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that a summer days more beautiful
than the dead of night?
You profess...

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Do you remember stories about the incensed 60s?

The smoke-filled Beatles,
and acrid flowering Hippies,
and Aquarian Age of Free Love.

It fizzled out.
It wasn't such a Great Transition
as we had hoped.
Exhausted by Foreign and Civil Rights v Wrongs...

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You bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbers like cookies
Chips Ahoy!
Sleeve after...

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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...

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Adultery is an amiable adulation 
Excessive praise and admiration..! 
Relationship with love outside marriage is divine
Relationship without love inside marriage is un-divine..!!  

Though we all value love
Still we engage with wow
In extra marital affairs...

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Bridgett Faerie leapt from the flames with a pop and a fizzle
Delighting her elemental dad, Hellfire, wielder of the flame
Her mother gave her the power to make leaves dance 
Her purpose not apparent yet, but...

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It’s the fourth - fireworks; the fizzle of stars.
The colorful display of power of the people —
waving of the red, white and blue; freedom
rings, slowly, building to a crescendo
to include all the melting pot called...

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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...

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The night before the longest day a man
Went walking on the chalk path on the hill
Collecting stars. He had a little pan
To sift them as they fall, for fall they will

Some crumble quickly into silver...

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If ever I had to wonder, 
I would simply wonder why our paths were even destined to cross.
Obviously, I have so many things I have to wonder, 
Because my love carries the strength of steel...

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Wisdom tooth, the oral root of prophesy
I respect you with all my worth
When you speak my eyes come
I wake up and turn as you order
I constrict like a serpent stung
At your command I fizzle like...

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A rage disorder she says
a blessing I tell her as I admire how white her doctor coat is. Stupid color for people who work with blood.
 Anger issues and compliance- complications she diagnosis me with.
...

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There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy clouds outdoor on this day 
Blocking the sun from peeking...

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The Rainbow

The world howled and the roaring thunder did clap,
amid frothing waters and whipping winds our vessel marched.
To us whom the boiling sea had unkindly spared there was no stopgap,
the hellish deluge spared us no...

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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...

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She was the best teacher ever born in our county, a tiny woman with a giant adventurous soul.
Miss Fizzle from Magic School bus was probably designed after someone met Miss Raggletoots.
Okay it is not her...

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bring it on! ripple
                               ...

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Ch: We have no time/ all the good times left behind/ Time’s not on our side/ no matter how hard we try/ we’re out of fight/ we’re just out of time/

V1: one last time/ one...

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We all possess this innate urge to leave our mark:
sculptors grasp the chisel;
a dog raises its leg.
Uncertain is the way - the night is dark.
Passions often fizzle.
Both fertile and futile describe an egg.

What is the...

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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...

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there is an afterlife in these high branches
spirit bears
watch as tracks appear and
                      ...

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there is an afterlife in these high branches
spirit bears 
watch as tracks appear and 
                    ...

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My
birthday
joy brings sweet
treats of cake and
ice cream, loving smiles
warm me as well wishes 
abound.  The flames burn brightly
as they flutter and twinkle and
my happiness shows as I wish a
wish on each of them and...

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Love 
is fragile
babies 
are cute
but add on their
burden 
and than the love
begins to fizzle
weaknesses
surface 
 
             like a soggy pancake
   ...

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