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Snuffing Poems - Poems about Snuffing

Snuffing Poems - Examples of all types of poems about snuffing to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for snuffing.
Ants
...This morning whilst brushing my teeth and trying with very little success to obey the dental profession's plea to brush in a circular motion and not in a side to side motion I noticed som......Read More
Categories: snuffing, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry



Descent Into Shadows
...What if I told you that I was weak Eyes bleak;couldn't reach even the companion I seek What if I told you I was insane Riding in the pain; Bonnie and Clyde stunt till no part of me remain What if......Read More
Categories: snuffing, dark, in memoriam, symbolism,
Form: Elegy
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970's
...Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S (just in time for end of summer reading... recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence) intended food for thought indulgence. A boys' life ab......Read More
Categories: snuffing, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Elegy For the Hunted Dove
...In a nest of straw, a gentle dove once dwelled, Seeking peace amidst the urban's frantic maze. With tireless toil, she fashioned dreams untold, Her sanctuary rising amidst chaos' haze. Her eggs......Read More
Categories: snuffing, bird, cry, emotions, england,
Form: Elegy
The Diminishing Light
...As the oil dwindles, the flame slowly recedes, Its once radiant gleam now a fading bead. Stealthily, darkness creeps in like a thief, Snuffing out life with a touch of grief. With an icy grasp,......Read More
Categories: snuffing, art, beautiful, dance, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Royal Birth
...the Sun in the west smoldering with fire inside afraid to explode, jumped into the waters below. over this impetuous act the Day, in deep regret snuffing all her grace, flickered out. ......Read More
Categories: snuffing, analogy, birth, celebration, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Shackles
...We played Scrabble until the word Bali came up- and you were gone. That night your pillow smelled of ocean breezes, coconut and heliconia. When you came back- I want to be free. I built......Read More
Categories: snuffing, freedom, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Snuff and Next Tears
...Even if Angels you lead, Easily reaching your bead, God's commandments always heed, On the clear begging need, To join the sowers of seed, You keeping His Decreed Creed; To the Church all your ......Read More
Categories: snuffing, addiction, character, devotion, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Little Lives Plead
... Little lives plead, Don’t make them bleed. God-given gifts, they must be spared, Let us say no to abortion, It’s a sin worse than extortion, Snuffing innocent lives uncared; ......Read More
Categories: snuffing, abortion, angst, cry,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Execution Style
...Sonny hid behind the melons In a busy Asian marketplace, Near the plantains and the mangos Where the shadows could obscure his face. He inhaled the air around him And enjoyed the fragrant s......Read More
Categories: snuffing, adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Form: Ballad
As Flies To Wanton Boys Are We To Th' Gods
...66 Million years ago Fireball from the sky hits Echoing life-planet, Snuffing almost all in darkness Mouse like burrowing under the inferno. 1750 People harvested like wheat Strong men, ch......Read More
Categories: snuffing, environment,
Form: Free verse
Extinguisher
...When I was 19 years old I collapsed on my twin size collegiate bed With my head in my hands And I sobbed Because for the first time in my shallow existence My carefully curated victim complex w......Read More
Categories: snuffing, anger, dark, identity, slam,
Form: Free verse
Touch and Go
...Brilliant light reaches down, a hand from above Touching life, illuminating lies, searing my retinas Like something holy that defies tangibility Reflecting upon the water as a striving, sorrowful ......Read More
Categories: snuffing, dark, death, dream, life,
Form: Free verse
Winter's Dusk
...The sun falls in slow motion, plunging softly into the horizon,  sending slow, fiery waves across the violet sky. The moon rises from the embers, cold silver against molten gold, snuffing day wi......Read More
Categories: snuffing, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
...Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX Day, and Night by Michael R. Burch The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters; her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms. And we who rise each day to grind a living, ......Read More
Categories: snuffing, dream, earth, flower, moon,
Form: Sonnet

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