Matches Poems - Poems about Matches

Playing With Matches We wired kids drank coffee in Kroger's and stoled fire and cigarettes. We were free. Hoses doused a funeral pyre. We kissed...Read the rest...

Just bring me a box of matches and some pretty blue thread I had no idea what was in the mind of my creative cousin Ned He whipped up a climbing ladder, and stuck it near the...Read the rest...

We are in the furniture store. Oops. Pardon me, ma’am. We are in the DEEEEE SIGN….ERRRR Store. I see a bed I like. I say “I feel like throwing a match in my house and starting over.” Elise is snickering...Read the rest...

What matches orange? The husband asked thinking the couch was a mistake. She was a decorator – not a paid one, but nevertheless, she was a visionary. She had the room put together in a week. People raved about its...Read the rest...

Those amber embers of muted mushes those emerging shades of shadows as suns tendrils soften skies that grey to nights touch Rays of golden reds and readied goals Stretching clouds that simper into twirls of wisp its journey ongoing leaving the night to...Read the rest...

The years pass but the soul doesn't accept... The body undergoes changes, that heart rejects... the legs creak as if they were teeth, and the teeth fall out as if they were drunk... The body ages, but not the soul of child... The skin, the fur, the hair if discolor, but the spirit if maintain...Read the rest...

Unable to match The death tolls Box after box of matches...Read the rest...

-you should fear the fourth of November because your old butt is sitting on a powder keg after a summer of disease and restriction after a summer boiling over with George the young are holding the matches and day upon...Read the rest...

I sit here waiting for my fish dinner Wondering if Club America is going to be a winner With no wall in sight The casino sports books say this is going to be a good...Read the rest...

rubbing our legs together slowly then rapidly hoping to light a fire...Read the rest...

Showing off again lol, I made this for my grandsons wedding day Once the fire is lite you must let it burn If you have a match that has struck your soul Let your heart burn and never...Read the rest...

Imagine a match that when struck's flame is colored, Its box shows us people (each different race), And with slogans that sparkle like, "Come Light My Fire!" Wow! Marketing's easy! A nice change of pace! "A Colored Flame's Better!"...Read the rest...

The art shop went up in flames No one was at fault These things happen All colors screamed out in black and white Insects inside ran furious with the paint Toasted crisp with no complaints Their secrets too are safe Regarding the...Read the rest...

Burned Out Matches Here I am Trudging up a mountain Littered with burned out matches, Holding my hand high enough to keep the light on me But out of the darkness Words of determination run through my mind Like a song...Read the rest...

We are boxes of matches, Some crammed with chances, Some rattle th last few, Some too chafed to spark a new flame, Some crumbled with th rain, My last matchstick, I want to strike it for you....Read the rest...