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Best Gobsmacked Poems

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Premium Member Gobsmacked Gams
Splatter painted, Pollock blessed, leggy I stand,
among the green grass and healing Plantain
in a kaleidoscope of color panned.

A walking canvas in the meadowland
stems, humorously stippled...

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Categories: gobsmacked, allegory, art, childhood,
Form: Terzanelle



Premium Member Separated By a Common Language
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language." 
                ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gobsmacked, america, england, language, word
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Did the Years Go
Remember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...

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Categories: gobsmacked, age, old, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Broken World
Broken World



When the lies were injected 
into the veins of innocence
blue feathered quills 
dipped their nibs 
into the ink of golden stories
stalked by trolls 
dragging...

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Categories: gobsmacked, dark, journey, light, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dumbstruck Is Me - Dk
Dumbstruck Is Me (a rhyming, acrostic kind of thing)


Discombobulated, how apt the word
Utterly gobsmacked by the absurd 
Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical 
By waking...

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Categories: gobsmacked, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Who's Gonna Own Up
WHO’S GONNA OWN UP

Did I just read that right, an email of sheer splendour
Thanks for becoming, a Poetrysoup premium member

O’ I so rushed into Poetrysoup...

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Categories: gobsmacked, appreciation, thank you,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Packet of Seeds
A packet of seeds I got in the mail
from China it said. Well, isn’t that swell?

Having nothing to do – thought I’d plant them for...

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Categories: gobsmacked, humor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cashless
Clean down to the bottom bill 
Smashing gobsmacked cashless
Simply crass wealthy wanting more
The silent till awaits the masses

Pouncing plastic rapist rapture
Stripped!! The global bankers dream!
Control...

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Categories: gobsmacked, money,
Form: Rhyme
Dream of Sailing
06 February 2010


Dream of Sailing
By: Noel N. Villarosa


Never sailed on a three-masted sailboat
Where it bustles to find a smooth wave
Where the wind is its engine
And...

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Categories: gobsmacked, adventure, dream, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Unicorn Magic
Why are the bees singing
As from flower to flower go.
Why have they lost their sting?
Only the Unicorn will know
Cos he magicked it so.

Loves to play...

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Categories: gobsmacked, nature, flower, flower,
Form: Quintain (English)
Moving In Mysterious Ways: the All Blacks
The All Blacks, man, are they for real?
They’re faster than the speed of light
Don’t blink, you’ll miss them, they’re surreal
I’m awake, not dreaming, right?
They just...

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Categories: gobsmacked, appreciation, games, god, men,
Form: Rhyme
I Choose My Friends So Carefully - Collaboration With Caren Krutsinger
I Choose My Friends So Carefully
by Caren Krutsinger & Rhona McFerran

Get back in your house,
I will stay in mine.
We won’t act like neighbors,
Everything will be...

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Categories: gobsmacked, feelings, friendship, humorous, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
American Innocence, Our Children Now and Then
As we know, sometimes we can see the big picture by peeking through a keyhole. And in America today perhaps we can see better the...

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Categories: gobsmacked, youth,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Chemistry Session Backfired
Shall I relay a sidesplitting hoot from my “care-free” on campus fun phase?
It entails a laboratory session involving three mystic world colossal oafs.
 One had...

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Categories: gobsmacked, art, character, color, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Smell of Fear - Collaboration
Alien talk I can’t understand
A Pifflewig performed a handstand
He verbalised through his ass
Gross putrid wind he did pass
Like many blokes throughout the land!

I farted, perhaps...

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Categories: gobsmacked, humorous, space,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs