Short Gasped Poems

the dying woman gasped at the magnificence of her last sunset...

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He thought he’d cheated death,
Then gasped his final breath…

For Susan's contest...

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P   enetrating my skin,
A   shadow of darkness conceals,
I     gasped loudly;
N  othing is seen…...

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You wrote an article I used for class.
I did my research and gasped.
Wife killed you with poison....

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You gave me your soul,
When I kissed your tender lips,
And you gasped my name.

(c) 2015 PJ Bayliss

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Notre Dame erupted in fire
Ghosts gasped in the funeral pyre
For the Devil's horns
Are the Crown of Thorns
Held fast by an angelic choir...

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I gasped aloud at my reflection
When I glanced in the mirror a minute
I wondered about a crack that appeared
Was it the shout or image that did it?...

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O circus, circus 
the ox and his Fergus. 
The whale took a bite of the moon. 
The carnivore gasped to see that chomp.
And the pig civilized the baboon....

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closet cats surrounded Harry as he began to read
their eyes widened in the dark, and they began to lean on him
monsters are real he said. They all gasped....

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the photographer gasped when he saw Mirra
Her makeup was exquisitely done
lace chiffon gown was a vision
elegant hair piece was perfect
best of all she retained girl-next-door quality...

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There was an old man from Carlisle
    Who went for a swim in the Nile.
    He soon gasped with despair
    When he came up for air.
    He's now just a crocodile's smile.

    4/ 9/ 2018....

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George and Harry both walk into a bar
They gasped simultaneously, “CRAP, that was bizarre!”
Hardly could speak
Together side by each
Lying on the sidewalk bleeding from their picadors...

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Had lunch at a hamburger joint today
Charged 50 cents extra for mayo, eyes became blazed
Jaw dropped, I gasped
Said, “stuff it up your ass”
It's a damn condiment, are you serious, it left me dazed...

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Had lunch at a hamburger joint today
Charged 50 cents extra for mayo, eyes became glazed
Jaw dropped, I gasped
Said, “stuff it up your ass”
It's a damn condiment, are you serious, it left me dazed...

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He seemed quite shy
did Sammy the Spy
Yet his reticence masked
a mind calculating, sly

When but a wee lad
Sammy uncovered the facts of life --
Picking his folks' bedroom lock 
He gawked, then gasped, 'Oh, my!'...

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Floating, once upon a pond
He caught a fish by light of dawn
A fish so big he gasped in awe.
As he gazed into her gaping maw
But he saw by her belly, she was yet to spawn
So he threw her back in, and told her "be gone"...

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A trio of guys in the nude
encountered old Polly the Prude;
they gasped as she tried
to drag them inside,
while shouting, 'I want to be screwed.'

written 26th February for Andrea's limerick contest (in memory of Rico)...

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a glimpse of heaven
   a taste of hell
 that's what he perceived
   at death's dreaded knell

 summoned to court
   he gasped hard when he saw
 the judge and the jurors 
   his wife and kids ~
           his maw and paw...

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The long red line, ma'am, atop your hand
   a mere scratch, sir, time 'twill mend

That growth all swollen on your neck
   just a wart, infected a speck

O! you gasped and clutched your heart!
   ~ bled once, 'tis torment to restart...

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As I write I am reminded of my faults, the numerous times I fell by my hand. Yet, even while I bled, I dreamt of my best. Even while I gasped for breath, I dreamt of my next. Even while I lost the will to be, I dreamt of a smile, her smile....

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A flatulent poet named Jan
Passed wind and there wasn't a fan
How the other folks gasped
At foul wind that she'd passed 
By jingo, she farts like a man!

********TOTAL FICTION WRITE********  


3/8/18...

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“Our sister church has slid off the cliff, and plunged into the sea.”
The entire congregation gasped.
Average age: 67.
The minister laughed.
“A joke,” he told them.
He did not last the usual five years. 
Average salary: Too much obviously...

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Wedding tradition of carrying the bride over the threshold

He wheezed and gasped, his body bathed in sweat,
Remembered months of training at the gym -
And strained again, he wasn’t beaten yet...
She eyed the threshold, sighed - and carried him!...

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I can feel my dreams collapse
into a single vibrant image--neural blast--
brief synapse--

of you, above,
as I now exhale my life’s last
true love.

My death,
a final gasped
breath--

I can feel my dreams collapse
as I now exhale my life’s last
breath....

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The first-grade girls were in a pattern.
What do you want to be?
A princess
A princess
A unicorn princess
A faerie princess
A pony princess.
Then they reached my child.
A witch, she said.
I will eat princess and chop unicorns in half.
The princesses gasped....

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