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Best Gasps Poems

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


Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: gasps, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek
The sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...

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Categories: gasps, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stepping Into Heaven
Under your heavenly gaze magic appears perfect 
a thousand whispers sail through the oceans current 
each wave warmly echoes of a sun filled promise 
Our...

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Categories: gasps, angel, baptism, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Soft Canal
The powder of white sand holds her flesh
close to his musk pelvis
as she gasps with the murmured waves
trembling on the coast
of a fragrant mouth against...

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Categories: gasps, passion, places, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bright Light Has Gone Out In Soup Creek
It was coming up for Christmas in the town of Soup Creek
Everyone was in good spirits and they had been all week
Jenna's saloon was very...

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Categories: gasps, america, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member - Delicate Balance, Divine and Fragile -
Always inside living thoughts 
Once held a vision adoring thee  
Beholding beams though these eyes
Star spangled one look totally breathless  

This heart's calling...

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Categories: gasps, beauty, blessing, destiny, heart,
Form: Free verse
Always Yours
The handwriting became darker,
And I imagined your hands pressing upon the page,
Wavering whether to write your thoughts or not
Soon, sure, the wavering became conviction,
And in...

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Categories: gasps, heart, introspection, passion, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ancient Shadows Awaken Into God's Light
Ancient Shadows Awaken into God’s Light

Underneath the deep seabed the stirring sands of time have passed on.
Ancient shadows continue to haunt all of us from...

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Categories: gasps, dark, dream, evil, faith,
Form: Narrative
Shell Shock
She held a seashell to her ear
But heard no soothing sea,
Just choking gasps of life caught in
An ocean of debris.

05.11.19


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Categories: gasps, environment, ocean, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Covered Silence
Empath whispers hold covered silence
desires whisk away with the moon
earth tone times of trepidation 
dragged off and hidden in the ruin

pain stains blush red under...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gasps, character, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oft From a Distant Echo, It Is Heard Fifth Poet In My Dedication Series
(1.)  Honoring John Keats
, fifth poet in my dedication series

Oft From A Distant Echo, It Is Heard

At the start comes just a solitary word
oft...

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Categories: gasps, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Prostitution of Her Love
“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily 
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...

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Categories: gasps, husband, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stargazer
Under 65 degree starry, onyx blanket
Containment of quarter moon identity

A whimsically soothing song exuded
In muffled taps & Prohibition era lyric

In the distance,
Snow-capped mountains reflecting lunar...

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Categories: gasps, confusion, feelings, life, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Melos
Bodies molded into one, golden by the fire-light
Heat between the lovers touch could warm the coldest night
Golden locks around her shoulders; the softest hands upon...

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© Dana Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gasps, death, love, passion,
Form: Couplet
The Unbroken Mare
In ghostly dreams the horse will come
And feed on my forbidden cereal
Meant for my recalcitrant healing
That filly came a-prancing stealing

O shrouded mare so misted white
Thou...

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Categories: gasps, horse, hurt, psychological,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs