Best Aces Poems
At a poker table in a Deadwood saloon,
Wild Bill Hickok popped his last balloon.
He suffered the most ignominious of fates
while holding black pairs of aces and eights.
Bill was unexpectedly shot in the back of the head.
“Crooked Nose Jack” McCall rendered Hickok dead.
Wild Bill was playing a game of five card draw.
His assailant was someone he never saw.
Since the Dakotas were in Indian country,
McCall could not be protected from double jeopardy.
A second trial convicted Jack McCall.
He was left hanging by his neck, and that was all.
This was one of the legendary tales of the West.
Wild Bill Hickok was more popular than most of the rest.
I thank wikipedia.org online encyclopedia for information I obtained to write this poem.
Categories:
aces, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Old And Holding Aces
I am old, youth lost does so deeply hurt
no more whiskey drinking brawls,
now slow and tired, feeling older than dirt
I no longer chase the pretty gals at all.
I am old, bad knees and snow on my head
no more , wild nights out dancing,
watch late news, now fall asleep instead
gone forever are my days out prancing.
I am old, can see the doorway awaiting
slow stepping my way over there,
Love-life over, no more sweet mating
I now can only sadly look and stare.
I am old, just damn glad to have now made it!
Do I now, hold onto last two aces or do I trade it?
Robert J. Lindley. 08-21-2015
Note- Sonnet mixture of truth , humor and
a sad realty!
Poetic leeway employed in the line about -
"Love-life over, no more sweet mating"
As trust me, thankfully that is not problem at all.
Categories:
aces, age, funny, journey, old,
Form:
Sonnet
I drop to speed like a falcon
I dominate the heavens like a typhoon
I complete the landscape like the sun
And heel my will like a stallion
Shining through time like a diamond
You’ll only find my spec if you rewind
When cave lions hunted and killed with fury
And cavemen had no place left so scurry
In a white suit and tie I stand
Poised, and the world I understand
Domination is the aim we can here for
This game none have played like this before
I launch back into space like a rocket
Striking aces like a tennis racket
To continue my mission to question
The 'why', the 'how' to the solution
Categories:
aces, emotions, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The cards have been shuffled
And the deck is cut
The game of life begins
Lady luck will do her strut
but only destiny will win
Categories:
aces, life,
Form:
Rhyme
With three aces
in my hand,
I raise the stakes
looking dumb under bloody lights--
packing a Hold- Em win!
Ricta
Categories:
aces, games,
Form:
Rictameter
Horn of Africa. Famine, drought and conflict have left millions of people needing food, water and healthcare. The UN says that in the last few months, tens of thousands of Somalis have died of causes related to malnutrition. Most of them were children.
I appreciate the picture is deeply up setting but represents the reality of those children who are starving/dying in Africa, even as you read this.
Playing cards: the black ace, for some, represents death.
Categories:
aces, natural disasters,
Form:
Senryu
You say " I can't imagine how you get so bad, bro"
"Pocket aces aint all that bad, yo"
but when we're talkin' about aces
Yeah, I was dealt a good hand
but all that flops are are straight faces
and I just ain't feelin' it, man
Sometimes I feel like a foul ball
That just looked like a fly
I'm all like "just pool yourself together"
You gotta keep livin'
Even when you're livin' a lie
Categories:
aces, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Life lost in saline streams
Straining to see
Possibilities in reams and streams
Crane to love me
Although I desire nothing unproven
In the world I grapple to save
From madness and sadness woven
In webs only the brave
Dare to challenge
In the open where nerves
Bent on revenge
Achieve rubbish that serves
No useful purposes
In improving prospects
For souls that befriend porpoises
Upon finding at their detriment suspects
Aren’t always guilty
Despite evidence claiming the world gets better
Now that the mighty
Grow less bitter
Engaging concerns
Thrown to back pages
For too long in urns
Where they rot for ages
Hoping dreams come true
For creatures great and small
Whose wisdom and freedom glue
Souls who can play ball
In efforts to fraternize
Erstwhile enemies
And modernize to incentivize
The growth economies
Need to plant sesame seeds
To grow goodwill
Through daring deeds
Whose efficient effects spill
To the general populace
Who longs for shelter
As technologies race
Forth to implement the letter
That signifies happiness
Flying into every quarter
Where it jettisons sadness
Drowning it into wintry water.
Categories:
aces, poems,
Form:
Free verse
if all these thoughts are put to waste
at least i kid myself
wish i knew of better things to say
tho i wonder how your lips will taste
like salt and lime
and silver and fate.
salt and lime..
what am i thinking?
tho last night i swear id felt you breathing
along my neck
across my spine -silver and lime.
youd filled my lungs to say
'hun close your eyes and wake
and finally live one day for yourself."
oh god,
when you said that
id thought my body'd surely melt.
i see your face and think
you'd understand
those arms
those hands
they'll hold me.
and if i could save one last moment of perfection
id dissolve into you.
im waiting
and wishing and wanting and hurting and fading
Categories:
aces, devotion, imagination, love,
Form:
Free verse
Clean .... Places!
Friendly Faces!
Up With Aces, .... Victory!
However Long, However Long,
Loud God's Proverb's .... Spring!
Categories:
aces, appreciation,
Form:
Ballad
The Aces are coming the female ducklings said. There’s Dash!
Duckling adoration toward these valiant flyers with panache’.
One glided in on half a fighter jet that had a huge gash.
They entered the French restaurant and made a great splash!
They are heroes! The French ducklings yelled out with glee.
You can have him and Jim but save Henry Ace for me!
There was a clear favorite, as we other officers could see.
My brother Henry left with a smile that said “hee hee hee”.
Categories:
aces, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Sure Enough, The "Aces Up"
.... Scores Taste Knows, Victory!
Shuffles Sum, Of Victories .. Won;
Feat's Work That Distance, .. Brings!
Categories:
aces, appreciation,
Form:
Ballad
New beginnings
Solo
Got here in a
Group
Part of a
Pack
Now in the
Lead
No longer a middle
Child
Ace of
Clubs
New ways of
Thinking
Ace of
Diamonds
New ways of
Earning
Ace of
Hearts
Be still one
Minute
Ace of
Spades
Transform or
Die
52 cards and
I’m just
One
Categories:
aces, deep, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
hold all the aces....
never able to gain the upper hand
never dealt a winning hand
never able to
hold all the aces....
the cards were stacked against me
it was rigged
i was hustled
never able to
hold all the aces....
even when i though i had the winning hand
i was always bet by an even better hand
never able to
hold all the aces....
Categories:
aces, analogy,
Form:
Lyric