Gasping Poems | Examples

Necessary

Needed, air.
Humanity gasps,
Beyond care.....

(3-5-3 poem).

Gasping Thin Air

  The imprimatur of society has left us
                                             ~ gasping thin air

Gasping for Air

I love you more every day

I love you more in every way

There's nothing more that I can say

Because you take my breath away

Gasping For a Glimpse of You

From the haze, I had a chanced to see,
A vision that inspired me,
A future filled with love and light,
That cleared the shadows of the night.

You breathed new life into my soul,
And made my broken spirit whole,
With a gentle touch and loving gaze,
You lit a fire, set my heart ablaze.

But as I bent to take the knee,
The real world started choking me,
A tightening grip, my spirit chained,
In tangled webs, hope slowly drained.

You are the air I need for survival,
Lest I await the reaper’s arrival.
Slowly my spirit begins its surrender,
As suffocating ends my love’s defender.

My heart feels hollow, in endless pain,
A gaping void hoping to feel your love again,
For you have shown what love can be,
It calls to me like the devil’s apple tree

Yet in this hopelessness, light remains,
A flickering reminder that love sustains,
For even if I never see the dawn,
A brighter day may soon be born.

So let me dream of your embrace,
And seek the warmth of your dear face,
To breathe again, your fragrance so sweet,
To comfort my heart’s final beat.

Gasping For Air

I thought it’d take a mountain
A mountain moved and climbed
A thousand games of hide & seek
Before I’d ever find
The answer to the question
All-knowing, holy truth
Will I ever get over what happened
Will I ever stop loving you

It’s quite simple really
Too often overthought
By those who’ve loved 
and those who’ve not
And those who wish they never had 

There is no end,
Only evaporation 

The love mists into false disappearance
But it is still there
Still lingering in every breath 
For love is like oxygen
Fuel for the soul
Fuel for the body who will never be whole
Without their missing piece again

Does Love Thrive Only In Its Soft Gasping Return

Does Love Thrive Only In Its Soft Gasping Return


Does love thrive only in its soft gasping return
Nights that its flames reach heavenly sensual burns
Can love live in other realms sitting all alone
Wearing purple robes, sitting on its golden throne?

Can love ever be far more than we dare admit,
Far more powerful than the atoms we now split?

Shall we search much deeper and intensely explore
Trails leading into lands with magical new doors
Enter with true courage and traverse unafraid
And not with fear unsheathe our ever ready blade?

Can love ever be far more than we dare admit,
Far more powerful than the atoms we now split?

Will we such inner depths dare to gladly embrace?
That frightening unknown with bravado thus face?

R.J. Lindley,  May 11th 1979
Sonnet- 
( Questioning Deeper Life, Love And Our Ever Present Fears )

Gasping For Droplets of Air

The day broke muggy and gray
  Dewdrops sizzle on gooey asphalt
    and burn holes in parched lawns  

Outdoors discriminates not between
  craftsmen's rank sweat and 
    day laborer's grime

Apartment-dwellers' tongues hang
  over their balconies, enervated
    gasping for droplets of air

Hell hath no Furnace like a city
  at the mercy of a heat wave
    without a Fire Escape

Its a Race Against Time

Oh my brother, permit me please
Release the grip, ease my larynx
I die gasping for breath.
Lincoln, the Abe, sighed and signed 
To restrict not, but to foster brotherhood
Time elapses, but your ingrained grudge not erased
Give me space, enough to breath;
Give me air,
To live, believe and relieve my burden; Of history.
It’s a race to merge our color
Oh my brother, run
Run against Time..
And 
Permit me please.

Gasping

i don't
know
how
to

die
but
little
deaths

take my
breath
away
once

in awhile
releasing
me to at
least

smile
and know
that i know
how but it's

said that
practice
makes
perfect

i hope
to try
learning
never to

be since
i've never
been a
perfectionist

Gasping For Air

You have always taken my breath away
From the very first day we met
Now once more you have me gasping for air
For I cannot breathe you have taken my love away

I have tried to inhale the air you have left
My lungs have been emptied and I have regrets
I have tried to find a new ventilator with no success 
You have unplugged me from the wall you have taken it all

My heart has been flat lined with no indication of your return
No signs of life a tag has been placed on my toe
I have lost my heat and now have become very cold
Please bring me back to life put your paddles on my chest

I cannot survive without you

Gasping For Air: As If Spoken By An Illegal Immigrant

They call us illegal
And I know that we are,
It’s a choice that we made 
In coming this far.

Through jungles and forests
We travelled on foot
Our hearts in our mouths,
But no choice to stay put.

Murder and rape
Sadness all round
Gasping for air 
Afraid to be drowned.

We’re willing to work
As hard as we can
An aversion to toil
Not the reason we ran.

Our lives in your hands
A harbor from strife
A chance to survive
A hope for a life.

Gasping

gasping for air
she let the shock
sink in

Gasping and Drooling

You melt my heart and other parts of my body
In fact, some of my parts are anything but floppy
You could call me tense
Rigid parts quite immense
Gasping, drooling and excessively sloppy

Gasping Fed Up Ness

Gasping fed up ness 
Next door plums of smoke engulf the air,
I can't breath, I cannot breath, I can not breath,  gasp. 
My lungs relinquish wearily to filthy, dirty, unhealthy plums of rude air. 
It's not free?  Gasp, gasp. 
Why complain? but I do
A stare; no care, unfair.
I flee for outside air, gasp, gasp, better now. 
So I pay rent to share second hand smoke, 
beyond frustrated, 
Beyond despair. 
I'm fed up with complaining to other smokers. Fed up. 
Freedom from air pollutants is a run I don't want. Fed up, fed up. 
Sprint to my car while my neighbour goes on puffing & exhaling &
damaging the air. 
Battle weary I am. 
I am fed up. 
Really fed up. 
Fed up


I appreciate your time.

Gasping

Haunted by your gasps I call my own
The shimmer of your shirt climbs
On the mountains of bosom
I smell the fragrance in an instance
Buttons spill and your chest opens
The scarlet flesh of your torso
falls down your hips as I knead the yeast
To fine mold of Brach's melody
In a voice of chilled shrillness
That melted before me
In a spatter of viscous honey
That makes your cleavage part the sea
I entrust this after-dusk to more of your gasps.


Jajosh O.
Nov- 24-13
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