Best Gulping Poems
Artistic Night Sky
...As dark canvas unfurls bit by bit
Randomly gulping down acrylic paints of dusk
To satisfy his own thirst, not for long, to sprawl
Into a magical cosmos - flapping his d......
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Categories:
gulping, night, sky,
Form:
Acrostic
My Catharsis
...A dark angel writes in the air,
“There will be no tomorrow for you.”
Then puffs of shiny cloud ebb,
Ebony night surrounds me.
I tremble in fear.
I hover between now and never,
as if I'm trav......
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Categories:
gulping, death, fear, hope,
Form:
Free verse
It Could Have Been Much Worse
...Have you ever met those kind of blokes who get upon your nerve,
when they quote continual references that most think should deserve
a threatening confrontation that if they make that quote again,
......
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Categories:
gulping, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Fish Haiku
...gulping for air
when minnows swim
beyond their depth
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A Fish Haiku Contest
Hosted by Mick Talbot
Placed 3rd
19th April 2018......
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Categories:
gulping, fish,
Form:
Haiku
Grandpa's Autumn
...
bird songs drift through the tall Autumn trees and
photographs are floating in my mind and conversations echo
in the deep, crumbling amber gold leaves falling
an old man with a walker gets......
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Categories:
gulping, age, death, nature, old,
Form:
Free verse
Memories of Insomnia
...Last night rolling over in my bed
with drooping eyes and racing mind
I boarded a train of random thoughts.
Only to find millions of flashes
that I couldn't get hold of.
Memories, conversations......
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Categories:
gulping, memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Maze
...Maze
Oh my Heart, why do you seek
the ecstasy of Eden's garden
when love is a daunting puzzle.
Woe is you, you fool;
for you dare to travail
through its sinuous <......
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Categories:
gulping, love,
Form:
Free verse
Aunt Grace's Peach Cobbler
...Around the corner and half a block away, the flavor would grab me, tie me up to some irresistible force, then drag my nose to the source of its home. The aroma that wafted in the air and up my whiff......
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Categories:
gulping, family, food, joy, love,
Form:
Narrative
Toddler Tea
...I thought I’d invite toddlers for tea,
so my own would stay out of my hair.
They would sit and sip so daintily,
Follow rules, and play games so fair.
Smile ever sweet, use the word please
Say......
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Categories:
gulping, baby, children, kids, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Eclipsed Letters
...Intermingled threads of my fantasies pour
from the ink of my love on the bare soul
of the letter I write for you, my beloved
The windowpane sparkles moonlit dreams
And I submerge into my visi......
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Categories:
gulping, love,
Form:
Free verse
Winding Path
...My solitary self was needing space
Fortunately know just the place
Walking briskly soon be there
Gulping breath of pure fresh air.
Winding path, know it well
Soon be in heaven away fro......
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Categories:
gulping, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Couplet
Poetry In Process
...For night long
No sleep came
But song and song and song
Melting in the candles' flame
Of thought, fore I wrote them all
That with silvern flashes broke
The net and swam, and swam, and swam
In ......
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Categories:
gulping, on writing and words,
Form:
Verse
Monster Under the Bed
...Mommy! Daddy! Mommy! Daddy! The screams are getting louder
There is gulping now; this is sob-crying.
“I can’t take much more of this!” Daddy says, shoving his head under a pillow.
As if I can!
......
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Categories:
gulping, dream,
Form:
Narrative
Shh Babies Are Sleeping
...Shh! Babies are sleeping Dorie said.
Slumbering in dreamland with her Uncle Fred
Tummies full of dolly potatoes, they are amply fed
Especially after gulping down cinnamon bread
Two dreaming of ......
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Categories:
gulping, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Monorhyme
Was He Wearing Camo
...There was a gentle breeze on this glistening moon-filled night.
An unknown stranger in the shadow of an oak gave me a fright.
When he turned, I could see he was male, in a bit of light.
He had a n......
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Categories:
gulping, fear,
Form:
Narrative