Best Gotcha Poems


Premium Member Gotcha

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 and glow again 
No more time to nap 

Lightning bug...

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Categories: gotcha, children, insect, nature, night,
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member When Proof of Gotcha Is Ignored

After reading opinions of many PS poets, I'm sick of hearing phrases like, 
"it's causing big problems," "making me heartbroken," "it sickens me," and many other negative thoughts that are detrimental to the site. I've given up trying to comprehend why some use it and claim it as their own. It's the same with plagiarizing,...

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Categories: gotcha, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Gotcha!

Tingly skies full of surprise- oh how I love when with surmise,
the little rascal aims his dart as if it were, poetic art.

Like magic, when he pulls his bow,
two hearts then tether in love's glow.
His arrow binds them then as one
to spin beneath the lover's sun
as special feelings grow and flow.

This happened when I was...

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Categories: gotcha, love,
Form: Rhyme

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Gotcha

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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Categories: gotcha, romance,
Form: Light Verse

Gotcha - Part Ii

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 with my husband who’s standing right behind you”

Strike three -...

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Categories: gotcha, relationship,
Form: Light Verse

Gotcha

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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© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gotcha, humorous,
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Gotcha

Gossamer cobweb
 glistens with
 early morning dew




Spider poised
ready
to entrap
unwary victim

Paint A Picture - 7 Lines Poetry Contest


Sponsor: Joseph May

09/24/20...

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Categories: gotcha, nature,
Form: Verse

Ha ha ha gotcha!

Ha...ha...ha... gotcha!

The imagined intimated response
linkedin to a swindler's
imagined thought bubble
silently spouting you ain't nothing
but a pluperfect sucker...
rendered penniless suffered
courtesy a financial blow
now left forced to eat crow
forfeiting every last red cent,
plus if applicable escrow
being analogous to an indentured servant
denied luxury and security of nest egg,
hence peace of mind to forego
pipe dreams given the heave-ho
resigned to...

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Categories: gotcha, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member Gotcha

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 alarm

When the coach put that new kid in
Sat your ass...

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Categories: gotcha, funny
Form:

Gotcha

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 spade full, he thinks he is brave,
Black cat jumps up,...

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Categories: gotcha, halloween,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bang, Bang - Gotcha

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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Categories: gotcha, games, memory, violence,
Form: Couplet

Gotcha

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 ounces smaller,
So I offer this advice:

When a bargain is presented,
You...

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Categories: gotcha, business,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member We's Gotcha

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 who's kin ut be's" asks Billy tha kid
Tha hawks thay...

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Categories: gotcha, adventure, cowboy-western, friendship, funny,
Form: Verse

Premium Member Gotcha--Mia

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

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Categories: gotcha, food, funny, relationship,
Form: Acrostic

Gotcha

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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Categories: gotcha, funny,
Form: Limerick
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