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Best Gasp Poems

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


Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

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Categories: gasp, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: gasp, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: gasp, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: gasp, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...

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Categories: gasp, love, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: gasp, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Specters of Slaves
Nature trail extends for miles
Surrounded by wetlands and lakes
Each step I take brings me closer
To an old plantation, where I climb the stiles

For it was...

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Categories: gasp, history,
Form: Rhyme
Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

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Categories: gasp, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

                  ...

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Categories: gasp, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gasp, analogy, death, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Cosmos
Your feathered words arrive tickling my ears
The tip of your nose brushes
The back of my neck
My skin awakens

I have been calling you
Calling you back into...

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Categories: gasp, beauty, blessing, celebration, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Muses In Gold
To glide with inspiration above quilted clouds
 Where birds so often soar
 Glimpse a sunset hued in gold
 With many colors to adore 
 
...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gasp, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beautiful Day
Awake... my first breath in the quiet of an April dawn
becomes a halted gasp, caught and hung in mid air
A warm, silent smile deepens as...

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Categories: gasp, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Graveyard of Poets
There's an obscurity on the threads of darkness
dare I peer beneath the starless shroud of midnight's veil
as I walk through the misty breath that beclouds...

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Categories: gasp, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

In the deep core of her skin
I feel a human who is no saint  
Cutting out her heart, ripping everything to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gasp, abuse, beauty, dark, emo,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things