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Best Crapshoot Poems

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Crapshoot
CRAPSHOOT

High school graduate
Roll the dice
Hope for seven
Maybe eleven

Take a risk
Time for change
Need some luck
Borrow a buck

No snake eyes
Hope for good
This is reboot
College crapshoot...

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Categories: crapshoot, graduate, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Talk To the Hand - For Contest
y'all know me-     I'm in the poem biz     
and it is a no brainer   ...

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Categories: crapshoot, poems, poetry, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Open To Evolutionaries
Dear Andrew Cohen,

I am riveted by “Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening.”  Your theme that enlightenment need not be limited to elitist...

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Categories: crapshoot, culture, health, humor, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Ancestry Surprise - Dk

One-hundred percent Italian descent:
   four grandparents crossed the ocean, went
through Ellis Island, from Italy sent;
   my Italian roots, one-hundred percent.

But ...

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Categories: crapshoot, family, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Win- Lose Or Place--Colloquialisms
Writing for contests, is often a crapshoot!
Some may be teasers, and others no brainers.
Results often open a new can of worms,
though sponsors with backbones, will...

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Categories: crapshoot, word play, words, writing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Will Not Go Astray
I WILL NOT GO ASTRAY


I had fired off curses, you’d forever been strong.
Like a crapshoot endeavor of a serious wrong.
I know i’ll reap my sowing,...

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Categories: crapshoot, love,
Form: Lyric
Happenstance Hazards
Expectation's misdemeanors
     outflanking volition 
infringed upon experience's
       self-imposed options,
griping on about whirlwind's
   ...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crapshoot, allegory, hyperbole, philosophy,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member A Tale of Dark Angels
                        Expectations...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crapshoot, angel, anger, angst, character,
Form: Metrical Tale
Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
 ...

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Categories: crapshoot, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
I Am Sure
I am sure





A no brainer
that fought like sin,
Too much aggro
for want of snogging,
Lay in a fix of drugs
in shooting gallery,
Wearing the best of
the bib and...

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Categories: crapshoot, conflict, devotion, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Belief System 2
"The streams are my veins." 


Can you hear the drum beats of fear as do I?
Does the mere sound of these fears make you want...

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Categories: crapshoot, change, christian, world,
Form: Rhyme
October 7th, 2022 Upon Second Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
October 7th, 2022 upon second anniversary of mine papa's passing...

Death no longer jars, nixes, 
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride or prejudice
no matter (even...

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Categories: crapshoot, absence, adventure, celebration, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Stirs the Soul
What stirs the soul from hot to cold
     and all degrees between?
What makes the earth spin
     what...

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Categories: crapshoot, allusion, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme
Death Jars, Nixes, and Rattles Mine Sense and Sensibilities
Father now journeys
into afterlife destination alone,
October 7th, 2020 mid afternoon
with Earthlings ministration did attone
where night envelops his lovely bones
rendered devoid of any groan
courtesy Roxanol (morphine)
and...

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Categories: crapshoot, absence, confusion, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Martial Translation COQ AU VIN
Martial Translations

Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair...

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Categories: crapshoot, addiction, drink, food, house,
Form: Epigram

Book: Shattered Sighs