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Best Gulped Poems

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


Premium Member Our Christmas Eve Dinner
'Twas our Christmas Eve dinner; we all had sat down
at the table to eat. Grandma couldn’t be found!
We children were fussing; Dad rose to his...

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Categories: gulped, dad, humorous, mom, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Movements of Beginnings
written on time’s page
                     ...

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Categories: gulped, history, philosophy, political
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cat and the Fish
A cat jumped in the river
to meet a fellow fish,
he wanted to be like them
it was his only wish.

He figured he could do it
he had...

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Categories: gulped, allegory, animal, cat, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Victim
I never wanted it to be this way, I never wanted to feel the pain. Bruises all over me. 
Invisible but I can see them.

You...

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Categories: gulped, daughter, education, family, children,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Voyage
Written: March 28, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

Quote: (The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.)...

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Categories: gulped, adventure, voyage,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lunch Box
LUNCH BOX

The sandwich was probably only two days old
School had let out for Christmas vacation on the 23rd
And now    on Christmas Eve...

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Categories: gulped, holiday, lovechristmas, old, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Oh Dear - Dad's Beer
Beer dad did pour;
placed on floor but
dad sure full glass

Sis gulped dad’s beer,
Felt so *****… sick
Oh dear, dad’s sad!

Drank dad’s home brew
Age just two, poor
Dad...

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Categories: gulped, child, drink, father daughter,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member A New Species Only Known To Mum
With cavemen like grunts they extract themselves from their pit
Unable to communicate on a level you can understand …
spouting three letter syllables such as ...

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Categories: gulped, fun, growing up, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Dolly Had a Scarlet Doll
Dolly had a scarlet doll
                    ...

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Categories: gulped, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Hollow Man
Hollow man

Hollow man, an empty vessel,
lived life with vain abandon
Selfishness and carnal lust
were his constant companions

Happiness was sought, indulging
frantically in fleshly pleasures
Pain was his only...

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Categories: gulped, happiness, introspection, irony, longing,
Form: Rhyme
You Belong To You
What have you done to us my child?
I tore my body to bring you here
He wetted his shirt with sweat to ink your books
23 years...

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Categories: gulped, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clack of Time
Married for eternity to the cool earth.
So difficult to think about my beautiful flower.
Surrounded by jagged rocks and cold rainwater.
Your sweet petal skin forged from...

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Categories: gulped, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Story Time
A warm sultry summers night, a silver crystal formed in
the corner of an eye. Trickled and rolled a gentle cheek,
fell to earth where all was...

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Categories: gulped, childrenwater, blue, silver, water,
Form: I do not know?
The Return Gift - Nursery Rhyme
Chinnu, the chipmunk got a gift, a corn,
from her best friend, Hugo, the hippo.
She planned to eat the tasty corn soon,
and meet Hugo the next...

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Categories: gulped, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Party Humidity
outside, it was raining
as it was inside 

drinks spilling onto the floor
from incessantly topped-up glasses held by 
forgetting, gesticulating hands
  
spittle flying from mouths...

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Categories: gulped, people, rain, satire, social,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs