Best Gasp Poems

1st lover

winter’s last gasp
bone chilling loneliness ....
warm scent of your coat

2nd lover

reaching across miles
sending balmy loving thoughts
returning with spring
distance of  no consequence
cold weather unimportant





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Porcelain shroud slowly falls;
hapless Mother trapped inside.
For the next twelve weeks at least,
her time she’ll be forced to bide.

Returning from his exile,
Uncle Jack’s come out to play.
Across our world, it’s been said:
free to have his wicked way.

Undeterred, life struggles on;
endangered mammals slumber.
Safe, secure and snuggled...

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October, you are the final burst of life,
before winter’s sad and lonely gloom,
paints the trees and meadows white,
and locks us inside its frozen tomb…...

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It began with rain, pelting
yellow daffodils to the ground.
Sleet rode rain's coattails,
staccato dings on our windshield.

In the empty parking lot,
black-lettered buses stood
empty; no church today.

Through potato-soup lunch,
we watched quarter-size
snowflakes cover sleet.
Over hours of a long, gray day,
snow mounded, transformed
familiar objects into phantoms.

Suet cake brought birds,
squabbling...

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Once knew this man from Peru
His body odour was disgusting peewww
Whenever he passed
Flowers would gasp
As the air turned a violety blue


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I gasp

Morning is cold.
I outstretch my arm in empty reach.
I gasp.

I listen for the miracle: the shower
door closing behind him.
I gasp.
 
I wait for my toweled Rodin and
the whistling kettle.
I gasp.

I’m not sure if can get up today.
My breath returns and I robotically rise,
Gasping. 


Kathryn...

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The snow this morning
looks like powdered sugar
sprinkled on lime Jell-O

The grass 
already “greening up”
is lightly dusted
with those powdery flakes
I watched drift down
at 5:00 AM

Yet the sun, rising at 7:00
is laughing at the snow
assuring the daffodils
the crocus and hyacinth
they simply have nothing
to worry about.

At 9:00 AM
The...

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My feet are stuck in the mire 
I struggle but cannot free myself
As the mud gets higher and higher.

And the more I struggle and fight
The deeper I go
Down into the murky suffocating
Depths below.

The mud rises now rises up to my waist
I panic arms aloft and...

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Summers final gasp
Hazy skies,heat,thunder claps  
Fall colors anew...

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The stronger
the grasp,
the longer
the gasp.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Yesterday death said in passing...
 “Someday it will be your turn,”
Always from dark mood harassing,
Never master, just intern.

Days awaken sleepy idler,
Death’s chill lost to summer breeze,
Autumn’s leaves show hidden color,
Spring’s joy melting winter’s tease.

Nature’s cycles run like clockwork,
Hum with sound of rushing birth,
Evolution’s crowning bulwark,
God’s...

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oh my final gasp   and breath in this earthly realm-  it was beautiful . . .



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December 26, 2018


Poetry/Monoku/final gasp
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1098-349-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, The Last Line
sponsor, Silent One

Second Place...

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She's grown fond
of the void lulling around her exoskeleton

She's brought horror to
diligent obtuse slaves

The quiver in her giggle 
heeds her cerebellum celebration for the rats that claw at the flesh walls

Jokes on the vermin, jokes on everyone
germ spreader dictates a varied vacation from the norm
the...

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As Michael slay the dragon under God's command
Reni and Palumbo outstretched their hands
As that ancient serpent was finally cast away
Young Jacopo the dyer painted all the day
As the seraph vanquished the devil forever
Raphael began his draught board endeavor 
Finally the mighty spear had met its...

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GASP OF AIR

Death claims all the Victory
In this life given to me. 
It owns the very parts of Me
Which mingled with One’s chemistry 
To build a brand new entity,
Just to have him ripped from me.

Who was the enemy?
My own womb, specifically
Betrayed us all, ejecting
This tiny...

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