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Best Gapping Poems

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


Premium Member Lighting My Candle From Within
I light my candle from within the more I give to you,

An inner strength builds inside, it fills my empty soul,

The encompassing love present when...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, caregiving, introspection, love,
Form: Quintain (English)



Premium Member Every Day I Die
Every Day I Die.

Dark shadows cast
Over a cursing clinging damning past
I so want to move forward but the dye was cast
My hands are bound
My feet...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, anxiety, grief, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Verse
Diary of a Great Depression
At my own admission I've grown black hearted, Find it hard to cry for the dearly departed. I've started with myself and made no difference...
my...

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© Lee Dobson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, depression,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Gun Carriage
Having engaged in unlawful
Sexual intercourse
The hunter inflicted suffering
Upon my dissent.
Trained for rapid eye movement
He showcased with a violent temper
And in conversation
How it was for the...

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Categories: gapping, absence, angst, memory, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jerusalem, the Jugular -2
It was not uncommon to discover a missing Brother Legionary
castrated, and decapitated
with a headless eagle carved upon his chest,
don't speak to me of morals and...

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Categories: gapping, history,
Form: Epic



The Wraiths Tale
As a young girl Barbara Ann’s thoughts were given to finding a love so true, 
Then one day she thought that she’d met the man...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, funny, world, heart, heart,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Spring Sours
From within the frost frozen bare boarded shed
with its loosely hung zee braced door agape,
the spring light peeked.
Warming the woodsheds King pine planks,
toasting the ten...

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Categories: gapping, childhood, happiness, lifespring, spring,
Form: Free verse
Tracks
The historic tracks had marked the scars on my back. Shots, cuts and chops, I can 
remember that, society, families, friends and girls were also...

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Categories: gapping, forgiveness, hope, peace, political,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Harmony of Spheres
Harmony of the Spheres

Oh, you’re included; the path to
Knowing God’s occluded; this
Denouement of the movement
has been precluded in this speech;
salvation is out of reach; no...

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© Joe Dinki  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, adventure, allegory, angst,
Form: Ballade
Rudyard Kipling
If inferno flames are melting your spirit. 
Causing gapping wounds of disappointments developing infections. 
Pus oozing oppression, odor of deception. 
Swathed in agony dressings. 

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Categories: gapping, america,
Form: Free verse
Eros Do Not Flee From Me - Part I
MY adventure began no less than upon this chilling night
when homes of many lower their shades and kill the light
As sullen souls lay down for...

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Categories: gapping, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Tightrope Journey
Tightrope moment 
Narrow access
Balance is almost unimaginable
The left of the balance lays before 
me deception
And on the right, distraction
The gapping drop is hard to 
overcome
One...

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© Jessica K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gapping, life
Form: Free verse
Black and White Lady.
Flat on my back
as the world sits on my chest
wearing his mustache among hawaiian islands

and I'm not breathing

a heavy finger prods my cheek
"you are SAD"...

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Categories: gapping, introspection, sad
Form: I do not know?
My Ancient Soul Unraveled
i tried to ignore the dreamy steps
with their gapping eyes staring,
undressing me until no flesh 
is left, nor bones.

Life.

Again, i tried to ignore 
the sound...

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Categories: gapping, art, life, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Musical Beings
Reflection is music in spirit
Deception is gratification through 
ignorance; 
Decisions cover the wallpaper on the 
walls and furniture of
This stage we as actors play to...

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Categories: gapping, life
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs