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Caught Me Off Guard Poems - Poems about Caught Me Off Guard

Premium Member Perch Bones
...The fillet was supposed to be boneless but it wasn't It caught me off guard, midmeal. Between bites of slaw and baked potato It wedged in the top of my whiskered throat there was the palest form......

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Categories: caught me off guard, fish, funeral,
Form: Free verse
I met this stranger the other day
...I met this stranger the other day.... I met a stranger just the other day, Wandering the halls, in a hospital’s way. My mind was spinning, feeling so low, But this kind soul made my troubles ......

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Categories: caught me off guard, blessing, cancer, emotions, friendship,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member My World Has Changed
...My world has changed so fast it has caught me off guard. I never dreamed I would see the open hate and pervasive bigotry that exists in the world today. But then the internet came along and shr......

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Categories: caught me off guard, america, anger, anxiety, computer,
Form: Free verse
Caught me off-guard
...Your eyes prevent me from thinking a lot, yet let you prey on my mind. Cannot really describe the happiness they plot Because in my mind, there is a lot to find. They always find their way to m......

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Categories: caught me off guard, cute love,
Form: Lyric
NAME
... “ NAME “ HADN’T SEEN HER SINCE HIGH SCHOOL AND I FORGOT HER NAME BUT HER FACE AND SLINKY WALK BOTH REMAINED THE SAME ......

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Categories: caught me off guard, high school,
Form: Rhyme



Her
...It was nearly summer break, We met as she bumped into me. She fell and I helped her up, That was only the beginning. We spent summer together, Being with her, it just felt right. A thought......

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Categories: caught me off guard, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye My Love
...That very first time that we met, I thought that I've met my match, I thought that this is it. Walking towards me, as we locked eyes, your messages and pictures weren't telling no lies. The way......

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Categories: caught me off guard, death, loss, love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 77 Winters
...77 winters…..77 And each one snuck up on me Caught me off guard No rake, not enough leaf bags, Too damn dark, too damn soon. And the snowblower!!!!! Dammit….gotta get fresh gas Drain it, prime......

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Categories: caught me off guard, age, humor, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Named Him Robert
...It caught me off-guard-- my outburst of copious tears! For Margaret Ann Brady's heartbreak over the years :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In reaction to this historical fiction book......

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Categories: caught me off guard, america, history, how i
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bring Me Home
...What I'd like to give you is an ounce of my cologne. It promises not to turn heads, but to keep level heads. Trust me when I say, "I've been around the bin a few times". Word to the wise, "If it......

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Categories: caught me off guard, people, wife,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Poet's Hands Are Tied
...(sorry, just noticed this had gotten copied and pasted twice, making it appear extra long) His editor made a call to his house. He’d promised her poems. Where was that louse? Again and again s......

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Categories: caught me off guard, poets,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Color of Friendship
...At the corner of King and Far West Street A newly arrived German family They'd given birth to one We were twelve or thereabout I saw her in twilight of Hit Parade on radio Belize I'd just walked......

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Categories: caught me off guard, anger, childhood, confusion, emotions,
Form: Bio
Tailspin
...I was sent in a flutter With the news you had uttered An unexpected shock that caught me off guard Like a solid sucker punch Straight and square into my guts The breath froze inside of my lu......

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Categories: caught me off guard, anger, emotions, heartbreak, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Resurfaced
...finding his old letters at the bottom of my drawer caught me off-guard ~ it took me a minute to catch my breath AP: Honorable Mention 2020 Posted on June 16, 2020......

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Categories: caught me off guard, feelings, memory, nostalgia, writing,
Form: Free verse
A Dream I Will Always Chase
...When asked "Where is it your from?" It caught me off guard, I stop to think Of a beat up record whose song When sung makes your heart sink I have been a fool again I see sad i don't belong......

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Categories: caught me off guard, dream,
Form: Rhyme

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