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Best Gotcha Poems

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


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...

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



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...

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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...

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Categories: gotcha, relationship,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Poet Rambles
the truth never told me a lie; if one writes a thousand poems one has a thousand poems written; everyone sees the sky as blue;...

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Categories: gotcha, dedication, life, life, poems,
Form: Free verse
My Most Unfortunate Job Selling Lsd
I’m excited, I got a job
I now work for Bob Bob’s Gob Shop
They asked me to stand outside and sell
These white packets, of what I...

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Categories: gotcha, funny, workme, me, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Tom Cunninghams Cunning Marmite Conspiracy - An Ice Cream Gran Special
It’s dreadful, a disaster, it’s a terrible calamity
Housewives going frantic for the thing they seek but cannot see
Supermarket workers helping those who shout the most
Try...

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Categories: gotcha, cat, grandmother, hero, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
April 1
Today was April Fool’s Day,
reminding me
of lighter times.

While listening to the news this morning,
I yearned for the traditional,
“Gotcha, April Fool.”

But all I heard,
reflected an unforeseen...

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Categories: gotcha, angst, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poetry Police

The pressure is on, can't let a day go by
Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable
The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door
And...

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Categories: gotcha, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye To Crack Cocaine
When we first met I liked you from the very start
Realizing once we got together we would never be apart
We became so close real fast...

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Categories: gotcha, inspirationallife, god, me, god,
Form: Rhyme
Who Am I
So they call me sister
Um hum, they think they know my name
I think I got him now check the game
What’s up baby?
How you doing?
What’s your...

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Categories: gotcha, education, health, people, me,
Form: Free verse
I Am Gay
I just found out.....

Well, I don't know how to say it?

Would you think less of me
If I say just the way it is?

I thought I...

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Categories: gotcha, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eggs-Acting Revenge Part 2
Shh-aaah....shh-aah, Oh how never ending is the sea..' I thought  I  should come down here
Maybe it will help my insight into this terrible...

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Categories: gotcha, anti bullying,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Strange Eh
The pressure is on, can't let a day go by

Without writing a poem... that would be unthinkable

The Poetry Police would be breaking down my door

And...

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Categories: gotcha, humorous,
Form: Narrative
All In Curl
give it away
give it all
all for what
all for nothing
nothing you bet
nothing yil get
get out there quick
get lost in a ditch
ditch ya wife
ditch ya dog
dog won’t...

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Categories: gotcha, adventure, beach, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Blitz
Wearing Facemasks Doth Dehumanize Socialization
Understandable... the sensible
(three ringed circuitous) logic
to trumpet necessity
each individual moost heed
bedecking, cloaking donning,
ludicrous interloper facial covering,
(I prefer sporting
latest custom made
invisible máscaras faciales),
when commingling amidst madding...

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Categories: gotcha, 12th grade, caregiving, heaven,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things