Short One That Got Away Poems

A Not So Original Monoku - unchallenged


Yeah!  But the one that got away was this big.


John G. Lawless
4/4/2016...

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~The One That Got Away~


Here I lay weeping

I sing a sad song to sleep 

Fire cracking bones

kicking, screaming, pulling hair

The moment, gone forever


~SKAT~...

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     MANY moons ago
     MARY met a male.
     MARK was his name.
     HARK to their tale.
     HARD to catch was he,
     HARE like was his gait.
     HERE ends the story,
     HERS was far too late

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Laughter echoed as 
they danced like no tomorrow
their eyes full of love.
It could have been me tonight
if I just said I loved him.




The One that got away 
Poem contest
7/4/2020
Sponsored by Silent One...

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It's happened all over again...
through time and wait
it has happened again...
SHIT!!!
Another woman coming my way
and I don't know what to say,
I don't know what to do...
Just sit and wonder if this will be true,
or just another one that got away......

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"Who's your 'the one that got away'?", Katy asked.
"I don't know," he shrugged.
"No one has ever really come to ever go away."
"Maybe it's because you're too scared to open the door," you said with a glare.
"Perhaps there's no door or window at all. Just walls."...

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The One That Got Away


I remember back when, thinking of our future then
Neither knowing what forever was
Now that then has past, I know now, at last
It’s being young and in love
It hurts so much that sometimes we forgot
That love is forever, it is we who are not
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The one in my daydreams
The one I compare all others to
None of which can come close to u
U will always be the one that got away
If I could go back and change my decision
I would leave with u
U r the peace I am seeking
U r the life I want to live
The next day dream coming soon......

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one that got away
two too late to deviate
three cute twinkle toes 

wiggle them till those little toes are free
count with me one and two and three



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on February 25, 2019 for contest CHARLIEKUCOUP sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA  -  RANKED 3RD...

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With eyes so deep and dark, I could get lost
soul-sinking into them; with a mouth
tasting of berries, and with hands
that held magic in their touch,
he was the one that got
away. . . if only
I knew what would
have happened
had he
stayed.

For Silent One's Contest: The One That Got Away...

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Memories of black and blue 
Like the sorrow left by you 
Like the teardrops in my heart 
That kept flowing since we've been apart 

Since you left me all alone 
I was lonesome like a stone 
I was rolling here and there 
Trying to find you anywhere 

September 6, 2022 
Inspired by the search for my one that got away...

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I had the biggest kind hearted one hooked.
But I wanted to keep fishing,
so he jump off the hook,set us both free.
Now I'm wishing I stop fishing,
when I had him hooked.
Like a dam fool I let the one that matters loose.
Now I stop fishing,but it's to late,he's not biting.
One I want to keep now,
is the one that got away....

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.                   CAPTAIN AHAB....

                    Fishing for attention, people might say

                    Revenge he craved, would cause a flurry

                    Complained of one that got away

                    Some said he told a whale of a story!



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She will always hold a special place
She may not want me
She wants to be free
She will always be the one that got away
The timing wasn't right
She flew away to Tennessee to escape the emptiness
If you love someone set them free
If they return, it was meant to be
This is the final farewell
With a tear in my eye
Fly high Blackbird!...

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I'll be your girls with the yellow umbrella, 
and you'll be my one that got away.
Whispered I love you's in moonlight.
Back handed compliments by day.
Kiss me, love me, fight for me.
Make me enough.
Enough for good riddance, 
enough for I'll stay!
But I'm just the girl with a broken umbrella, 
and this is just another rainy summer day....

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Anchored 25 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
The rod bends sharply; anxiously I struggle to pull up my catch
Alas, not dinner, just a mischievous scarlet octopus
The line is cut, but with suction cups it clings to the boat
Why couldn’t this have been the one that got away?





*June 13, 2018
For Silent One's "Five Lines"...

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I still think of you
Bed Peace by Jene Aiko
a soundtrack to memories 
I can't quite forget

You're moved on now
and I'm happy where I am
I don't understand why
but you still cross my mind

I wonder a lot
if I'm your one that got away
We never dated but
I loved you regardless

Memories of your bed
still linger in my mind
Bite marks like a brand...

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I saw you today
I realize I still love you
But you had yours 
And I had mine
If I had another chance
I would never let you go
But I'm glad
It turned out this way
Because of the little ones
At my feet
For if I had stayed with you
They would have never come to be
I saw you today
I love you

The One That Got Away Poetry Contest
Sponsored by : Silent One
7/6/20...

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I love to go fishing,
And I love to date.
I was just wishing,
You would take the bait.

Out on a clear lake,
We were feeling fine.
But my big mistake,
I used an old line.

Was the same line heard,
More than once before.
With her final word,
We don't fish no more.

Now that I look back,
Don't know what to say.
She wouldn't cut me slack,
The one that got away....

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One day,
Even your voice will fade
To a dull echo far behind my thoughts.
And maybe then,
Ill be free.

Or perhaps,
I will go on
Hearing your voice down vacant hallways
Calling me nearer
And you'll stay.

Whichever you choose 
I will not argue.
I will not resist.
For I would rather remember how you are in the moment,
Than a soft ache 
In the back of my mind
Constantly reminding me of a nameless absence 
Not even I 
Dare name....

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Was Santa pushed? let the Jury decide
The Jury are gunning for Terry's hide
Terry then started to wail
Because they denied him bail 
They then charged him with violent Santacide. 

"Not guilty you cretins it wasn't me" 
Judge asked" are you pleading insanity "? 
While the Judge was distracted 
Terry moved quick and acted 
Hopped over the court railing and was free.


For now anyway


Written 30th November 2022 ...

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I thought I got away with it
now I know that it's not true
not taking away more than I came with
not leaving with anything new

I thought I was so coy
didn't think you'd see the light
thought that things ran deeper
in the dark of night

I thought I got away with it
that I had stolen your heart
silly me it was all fantasy
from the very start

I think when you look back
when now is yesterday
I'll always be your one
your one that got away...

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As i sit and think, my heart in pain
i think of times i was so vain
sometimes i think i am insane
but then i know its caused by pain

i sit and think of words unsaid
it was like a budget but never paid
go say it , my heart just said
but the mouth an unworthy aid

as i sit and pen pen this page
i have grown, confidence and age
though my heart sits on the edge
i know this is but a stage

so as i sit, my heart makes way
for the one that got away...

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A cowboy without love is as lonesome as a lone dove
Always dreaming an sending prayers to the man above
Long dusty hard days as the dust settles down theirs no love around
She visits his mind from time to time as the one that got away
She's goin like the wind it can turn his sunny day gray
He says in his head she'll be back one day 
I love you my love till we ride agin with our houses in the wind
It shall be the bests of days kiss an holding you hers my cowboy prayer till that day...

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