Best Gotcha Poems

Lightning in a bottle 
That is my little firefly 
I gotcha right out of 
The summer night sky 

Gently captured now 
In an old glass canning jar 
You twinkle, twinkle, twinkle 
Just like a little star 

Riled up and startled 
With a tap... tap... tap
Awaken...

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Pick-up line: “Hey baby doll...Can I buy you a drink?”
Reply: “Yes please! After looking at YOU, I need one” 

*For the contest sponsored by Judy Konos...

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Three Strikes and You’re OUT: 

Strike one - 
Pick up line: “Where have you been all my life?”
Reply: “Mostly trying to avoid idiots like you”

Strike two - 
Pick-up line: “Well hello there gorgeous! Where have you been all my life?”
Reply: “10 years of it living...

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I never thought that I would fall
for that one prank telephone call,
I ran around my yard -
no hidden grand prize card...
not the next millionaire at all!...

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Gossamer cobweb
 glistens with
 early morning dew




Spider poised
ready
to entrap
unwary victim

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You feel threatened
Some call it paranoid
Unreasonable suspicion

Just because the guy driving beside you
Cut you off    then
Gave you the finger

No need for alarm

Just because your girl found a new boy friend    and
He’s 6’6
Weighs 230
Showed you the knuckle sandwich

No need for...

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Cops and robbers, we used to play
      Our default way to pass the day

   We'd trade off, so we'd not get too bored
      Not enough excitement, too little reward...

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The orange juice was being sold
At quite a nifty price.
I bought a few containers,
Feeling proud, not thinking twice.

But something made me double-check,
Since looks would not suffice,
And that is when I noticed
What I don’t think’s very nice.

Each orange juice container,
Looking normal, to entice,
Was a bunch of...

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GOTCHA !
It creeps up each year before November,
When the darkest of nights come around.
The kid looks around for a hand to dismember,
To the churchyard he strays, to hallowed ground.
There the dead he finds, cold in the grave,
With spade in hand, he searches you out,
Digging each...

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Ma cowboys un me been ponderin a way
Tryin ta figgers ur chores fer tha day
We thunk, un we thunk, finally Jimbo sez
"Times cum fer us ta chooze sum ones ta tags"
Nows who ut cud be's air 'nother thin.
We's paces tha floor er work went undid
"Jist...

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Gordy, my neighbor, used to play well-planned
                       
Outrageous pranks, his fun at my expense.
         ...

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The wheel chair flew by like a gun
Which left me standing quite stunned
The crippled old goat
Grabbed my camo coat
He can hide but he sure cant run...

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Ok, you got me.
But just you wait,
I'll get you back James
Before you reach base,
That safe place of yours.
Yeah, you're running fast,
But I know I can catch you.
Zig zag all you want.
Run in circles too.
But you'll give out of breath
Way-y-y-y before me...
Before you reach that tree
Before...

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   From compose, comes composition
     From suppose, supposition

   From depose, deposition
     From dispose, disposition

   From oppose, opposition
     From repose, reposition
  
     ...

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Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark prank
to steal himself into a neighboring house,
and prepare an elaborate meal
unsuspectedly nabbed gorging
(ala man versus food
Adam Montgomery Richman fame
Brooklyn, New York boy)
at an undisclosed location.

When asked why
he left figurative bread crumbs
to the...

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