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# Death Of A Poem
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/death-of-a-poem/
- Published: 2022-04-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-04-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: some poems die from strictly common causes a heart that breaks too often, meter running yet others die of boredom, misplaced pauses or not enough, or sometimes too much punning most often though, they die from strangu...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

some poems die from strictly common causes  
a heart that breaks too often, meter running  
yet others die of boredom, misplaced pauses  
or not enough, or sometimes too much punning  
most often though, they die from strangulation  
while still in draft mode, having not been saved  
through lack of oxygen, or adulation  
they're rarely -- though it happens -- well behaved