Best All Bets Are Off Poems

...It is not a conversation you overhear,
Like the questions rolling underfoot,
"Who goes there?".
You can see the grass has told
How tall to grow
To the chicory, dandelions and clover.
At the edg......

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...Circle the wagons,
We must protect our love,
Arrows and spears
Let them fly above
No one will take me away
No one will make my last day

I have too much to lose
Since loving you
I'll fight a......

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...Cliche Heaven

Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
    and address the elephant in the room soon when pigs fly.
It’s a win- win situation, put your game face on, work the crowd
   a......

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...Muted solitary moments run for days,
as the air of discontent begins to scoff
we vent in a wordless empty praise
pretending, telling the truth to back off;
in view of the mirror all bets are off.......

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...miss behaved like miss
thus proving all bets are off
butterfly effect

still with God's blessing
there will be catnip handy
for some lucky guy

Brian Johnston
August 23, 2015......

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...miss behaved like miss
thus proving all bets are off
butterfly effect......

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...Peter Piper pickin peppers
Pick your pockets 
Potential profits
Purely pleasure
Plan on passin on, Puttin  all
Personal belongings 
In your purses or wallet
Because peter's plottin,
Poppin up......

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...It's our social spectrum,
Polar opposites,
A moral conundrum,
Named Charlotte,
Our eyes locked across the sea,
Sealed behind iron eyelids,
An investor's security,
The upstarts outbid,
All bet......

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...$1.2 million

the british empire couldn’t do it
the soviet union couldn’t do it &
now the great big policeman of the world
is ready to finally
retreat with their tail wagging between their legs
all t......

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...("Eye of God", 2018, original encaustic)

You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover

You can’t judge a book by its cover
Or then again maybe you can
Covers show us what the authors want us to ......

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...A caravan for a Turkish
not a tommy gun
you took the jam out of my doughnut
periwinkle blue
a desert eagle is not a replica nor a diamond
sweet enough without the sugar
that my son is why we're......

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...A rainbow comes but once
it's rained

And at the meeting point where it's prism rays of coloured light 
penetrate the earth crust

If one is to believe in fairytales a 
pot of gold awaits just......

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...Guess you haven't heard
you're yesterday's news...all bets are off
and it's not even yesterday yet.....

Thought you had it all figured out
had your finger on the trigger to shoot it out
runnin......

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...never get into an argument with a child.
never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
because they always win.

they have nothing to lose,
and you do.
you lose your dignity,
your composure,
your ......

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...without 
it
love cannot stand, 
friendship holds no ground,
the world is full of liars,
everyone is an enemy,
violence will win out,
strength is an irrelevant concept &
all bets are off.......

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