Gasped Poems - Poems about Gasped

...a desert, devoid of fruition barren, from years of neglect praying for rain. Then you washed over me, and I bloomed Stifled and gasping for affection wanton for connection, but never satis......

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...a desert, devoid of fruition barren, from years of neglect praying for rain. Then you washed over me, and I bloomed Stifled and gasping for affection wanton for connection, but never satis......

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...Brains and guts orbit the soul— that polar star searing in the marrow of being. I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march......

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... Written February 28, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama ************************ On a planet where kindness truly counts, people's eyes widened as the las......

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...The knife held in trembling hands. Gasped breaths intermingling in the cold, dreary night. Hushed whispers, choked off words. Thousands of what if's disappearing like smoke in the polluted sky.......

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...Deafening rapid fire blasts Shatter the transluscent margins of Silence with Harrowed cries gasped Howls echo from one side to the other Of the heart’s vast arena w......

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...The clock gasped, a single breath, Time folded like a paper crane. In the mirror, a stranger blinked— Eyes heavy with a fleeting name. A drop of rain broke the silence, Its ripple swallowed th......

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...There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, science and superst......

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...I heard the door open. It was Leeza (Lisa’s 14-year-old sister), she’d been out on a date. I was the only one in the living room as she came in and sagged, dejectedly onto the huge, white sectiona......

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...October 2051 Damali and Desharah celebrated her birthday with Sedanah Born on the same date one year apart. "Thank you both And thanks Seda for being older than me!" "No problem Cousin. She......

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...(a university-life vignette) It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for......

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...(A throw-back piece, a breakup poem from high school) What a lonely, peculiar, eccentric figure I must be. A girl, in a garden, crying at an iPad, in the dark. Earlier, at school... ......

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...M'aider … Mayday, comes from French, that word, with fright, I radio, my engine dead, this nighttime glide, vast sky and ocean black as ink, waves rising, lapping, leaping up until the splash, w......

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... Startled, I woke up in a fright. The silhouette in the mirror is there again tonight. Peering closer, the form is ghastly; Pinching myself, covering my head, and lastly Counting to ten and pe......

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...In twilight's grasp, the whispers creep, Through shadows where the old trees weep. The Halloween tree, gnarled and bare, With branches twisted, a spectral snare. Under its limbs, the spirit ......

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