Short Fizzles Poems

Love’s flicker fizzles
Hearts apart, souls within
Salient shade fades flames...

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To kill a name colossus
They kill his name first
Then the soul and the body fizzles out
And thus the battle is won...

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Unless I write the piece in reverse,
it fizzles and dies by line four.
There is something intriguing,
viciously perplexing,  
and tricky about
those Nonets that
cause me to
end up
stuck....

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My heart fizzles; like hot kettle, 
glows red and burns hands 
trying to nestle.
Love is hard when life is heated,
 So stay clear,
that your mind won't  get fogged
 with this heated steam....

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a million minds meandering
wondering whether wise
can continue in chaos
till onus openly overhauled
then doubt duly dissipates
fear fizzles finally
eventually everything eases
finding beautiful baseline balance....

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Robot rambling in foreign tongue
With bleeps and blips a hum and buzz
Intoxicated from coffee it shouldn’t have had
Sparks and fizzles, jerks to the ground. 
A man exclaims and questions, “who gave that robot coffee!?”...

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THE AWAKENING

DEATH...darkness with lids open wide, sparkle fizzles

ETHEREAL...the wispy sight of clouds, the soul’s eye sees rainbow-light

LIFE...in surround-sound color, plucking each harp-string, endless array

9/29/2017...

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Rockets flare in brilliant aerial display
Lighting the night as though were day
Roman candles fired at the moon
       A celebration ended too soon

Like fireworks that light up the eyes
excitement and love fizzles and dies
There's danger in holding a short fuse
       Fingers and heart you may lose...

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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 sand.

I pick up some rocks and shells,
Watch the shorebirds dive and fly
As the ocean ebbs and swells,
Plovers skitter, seagulls cry,
Soundless pelicans glide by.

8/3/2017...

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Another dark day, and it drizzles
The most monotonius tune
All I have endured now fizzles
As soon as I’m leaving the room
Damp air makes a joke of my plan
Slushy pavement tell stories untold
In favour of wintery man 
Who sneers from inside of my soul
Spring speaks sotto voce in dark day
Though I’m not excited with breeze
With mud and the damp, I will play
Spring’s little game that I seize. 
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Much ado here
With poise that skips
Our purpose here


Too much acid
Now fizzles buzz
Lost cause sinks


Why worry now?
Stay on the way
Of mindful hope


When joy goes
Sense empty shell
Frame hollow mood


Anxious no more
Sad afterglow
In times of loss


Sadness seeds stern
As concerns turn
To odd illusion


Words fail here
With jaded foibles 
Ends do not meet




Leon Enriquez
02 September 2019
Singapore...

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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 stick?
The choices aren’t ours to make – 
The brain will search and pick.

An ordinary moment
Sometimes stands out from the rest.
Only time determines if
That flash will pass the test.

In our later years, perhaps,
We’ll look back at this day,
Remembering some magic tug
That held us in its sway....

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How hard it is to do a thing,
No matter what it is.
Determination sometimes fizzles,
Losing all its fizz.

To tackle a new project or
To make some kind of change
Requires the kind of energy
That might seem out of range.

How simple it appears to be
To leave things as they are,
No need to tap into
The perseverance reservoir.

Though life at such a standstill’s 
Crying out to be cajoled,
The effort to improve it’s
Much too easy to withhold....

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the pressure builds
the burden
too much to bear
pulsing
groaning
cracking

'show me the door!'
one needle versus reality

that beautiful zero kelvin vacancy
erupts 
following 
the synthetic carbonated haze
as the earth
fizzles out

these colours 
these sounds
drowning it all
drowning me
'show me the door!'
one needle versus reality

but it's there
you're here
the further you run
the closer you come
this trickery devours you
one more time

r'thomas '10...

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