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Best Gawk Poems

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


Premium Member Snake Oil Man In Milton Creek
It was about seven in the morn as the sun was starting to rise
Unbeknown to the folks of Milton Creek they were in for a...

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Categories: gawk, america, western,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Look Closely
Look closely,  feel the harmless heat 
enveloping black-diamond 
         petals in the glistening
   ...

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Categories: gawk, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: gawk, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Is Love
How does one answer, what is love;
it's part hope, part apparition.
But what it truly is; sort of
simply defies definition.

Have you ever felt so alive
that it...

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Categories: gawk, beautiful, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Tourist
Have I been one among the chain
of those who come to gawk, then strain
to point a finger, poke my nose
into places I don't own?
To claim...

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Categories: gawk, appreciation, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Our First Crush
There was a time when I was young,
My cousin Glenn and I,
Did fall in love with one young man,
Whose face and form were fine.

He had...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gawk, childhood,
Form: Quatrain
I Am a Large Woman
I am a large woman,
Broad lovely hips,
Soft round belly,
Big luscious lips.

Wherever I go,
People take notice of me,
Let them gawk,
At my massive beauty.

People that laugh,
Think they...

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Categories: gawk, happiness, introspection, life,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Word Quintet In C Major
Word Quintet in C Major

By Stark Hunter

Open the door my friend,
Climb on in,
Join me here in this relentless caravan,
This unstoppable, this incontrovertible, 
this inexorable movement,
To...

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Categories: gawk, desire,
Form: Blank verse
Humans Need An After Life
(unfit 
category 
but no 
choice.)

Life would 
be 
worthless 
and 
short
If this is 
the only 
dear life 
we 
have
Great 
plans just 
death can 
abort
to be 
useless...

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Categories: gawk, absence,
Form: Nazm
Ancient Light
A story inscribed in the constellations
of the punctate canopy of night
Perseus astride the winged Pegasus
Hurtling to save his fair maid Andromeda 
from the beastly Cetus...

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Categories: gawk, imagination, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
The Big Apple
I made a trip to New York
and surely looked like a dork
staring at the sky
scrapery so high
(and sometimes ogled a nork*)

I took a walk to...

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Categories: gawk, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Little Guy Dwarves Again
Seven days and lonely at night
Was a Princess called Snow White
On her doorstep there was
Little guy dwarves
All different to view from sight

So on Monday night...

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Categories: gawk, humor,
Form: Limerick
Showing Off the City
In a city as big as New Yawk,
There’s so much at which tourists can gawk
But the locals’ fast pace
May be hard to embrace
So if guiding...

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Categories: gawk, new york,
Form: Limerick
Witch Hunt
There was an old lady, a frumpy old bag
who people called horrid, a witch and a hag
And 'though she was ugly and danced 'mid moonbeams
all...

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Categories: gawk, community, humor, humorous, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Delilah's Story- Part Ii
PLEASE DO NOT READ PART II BEFORE YOU HAVE READ PART I! THANK YOU! :)

She had been a modest woman
Had so desired a family
But that...

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Categories: gawk, death, devotion, passion, me,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs