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Best Gapped Poems

Below are the all-time best Gapped poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gapped poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member False Teeth
First hosting angels with God and son
Then I'd become a glimmer in my father's eye
Met my mother then I arrived
A babe with NO teeth
At age...

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Categories: gapped, birth, cheer up, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse



Obsession, a Disease
Obsession is a disease!
That turns from one person to another.
Ruins one life after another.
Einstein had once rightly predicted
Way back that,
A day would come when obsession
Will...

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Categories: gapped, addiction, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Kellyn Hodges
above named entitled african american orthodontist 
   crowned specialist exemplary de jure by this dad
sans perfecting offset dentition of me daughter – shana...

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Categories: gapped, black african american, daughter,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
February 13th
Sharp teeth incising my neck, 
It's uncontrollably going on trek, 
Intimate vampire whom can't be seen,
From his wounded mouth slowly drip my flesh and blood,
Assasination...

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Categories: gapped, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Perfect Night
Dreamy nights by the river; my hair flowing against the cool breeze
I am embraced with my love in the moonlight.
Gazing at the city lights that...

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© Kira Price  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapped, beautiful, boyfriend, creation, december,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member He Was Right There
long, but a fast read!



“Grandma, please take us to the fair,”
in unison, the grandkids pled.
The boy was 10; the girl, just 4.
“OKAY! Let’s hit the...

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Categories: gapped, evil, innocence,
Form: Narrative
Dis Dada's Dutiful Toothfairy Daze
(witch role an unavoidable mandatory phase)
that nowadays breaks the piggybank 
   like a dropped fragile vase
you most likely nod assent if offspring ...

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Categories: gapped, beautiful, daughter, family, father
Form: I do not know?
School
School

This notion falls on
through:
Every traffic light.
Every petty fight.
Every lonely night.
Every petty fool
Every lapsing rule.
Every pistol premise,
True.
Every laughing,
Gapped tooth fool.
Every me,’
Every you,
Even landlords,
Priests and tools
Are each...

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© Joe Dinki  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapped, confusion, education, health, people,
Form: Bio
The Empty Room
his jean jacket hangs waiting on the chair.
				his floor is littered with gum wrappers and scratched lyrics
and crumpled tube socks 
and little pieces of him.

i...

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Categories: gapped, absence, anger, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Dis Dada's Dutiful Toothfairy Daze
(dirty dental deeds done dirt cheap,
yet...aye value, treasure, revere...those
loosely fading cutting edge com man 
dubble size memories.)

(Witch role an 
   unavoidable mandatory phase),
that...

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Categories: gapped, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic
Coon Season
Your gun was as a beam of light
in the house; it split the haze 
of smoke and childhood, 
scored the jaw of the ceiling
into its...

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Categories: gapped, father, introspection, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Through the Field, Into My Heart
The clouds mirror in her eyes, shivers cascade through myself.
Lilies of the Valley cling to her hair, so golden.
Such beauty incomparable to everything Man itself...

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Categories: gapped, daughter, family, father,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member La Finestra By Giuseppe Abbati
Giuseppe Abbati did interiors in oil.
The Window, open to outside, remains distressed
With rough serrated edges, checked with voids.
Time dried, these shrunken widths of planks have...

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Categories: gapped, allegory, feelings, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Lost Bell
The lost bell
That never would make a sound
Hopes fade, 
With the 
Tick, tick, tick, tick sound of the time
The temperature of the blood rises
I’m in...

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Categories: gapped, imaginationme,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member War
What is a missing eye,
If it is not mine?
Be strong,
It is not cause to cry
Nor an excuse to whine.

What is a missing tooth,
If it is...

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Categories: gapped, lonely, loss, war, wife,
Form: Rhyme

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