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Best Double Jeopardy Poems

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Premium Member Double Jeopardy
Risk
Falling
Into him,
Mysterious
Insight embracing
Feelings, exciting hearts
Flames in bold scarlet, rising
Like the morning startling the night
Freeing the soul from its darkness, love
Erasing all worries, the tears destroyed
By...

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Categories: double jeopardy, betrayal, endurance,
Form: Etheree



Premium Member Double Jeopardy
"Double Jeopardy" 

Behind the clouds
the sky is always blue
the rain leaves
love returns
like an Ocean 
to kiss your shores
washing mind
and heart clean

you write your
messages in the...

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Categories: double jeopardy, journey, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Aces and Eights
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...

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Categories: double jeopardy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mesmerized
"Mesmerized"



I am 
all of the 
colours

in your mind

we dance our 
fresh canvas
flirtatiously 

brushstrokes
caressing 
inquisitively

flowing 
we blend together
effortlessly

Mesmerized

You are 
all of the
colours

reflecting 
in my eyes

Double Jeopardy
a...

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Categories: double jeopardy, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member The Recalcitrant Romantico Sends a Love Note To the World
"The Recalcitrant Romantico Sends a Love Note to the World"



There was a loophole in the contract
in fine print, when the final page was rolled back,
a...

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Categories: double jeopardy, love, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Emmett Till
Emmett Till Emmett Till
Why was it you they had to kill
Why did they drag you from your bed
Why did they pistol whip your head

What exactly...

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Categories: double jeopardy, black african american, dark,
Form: Rhyme
The Bill of Rights, Part Ii
No illegal search and seizure
Says amendment Number Four
Probable cause necessary
Before we break down your door.
The warrant spells out what they search,
Describing things they will seize.
So...

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Categories: double jeopardy, confusion, education, funny, history,
Form: Free verse
The Lynching of Emmett Till
Chicago native Emmett Till would no longer be alive
after he was lynched in the state of Mississippi in 1955.
Till was on summer vacation in a...

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Categories: double jeopardy, america, history, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Buzzard Queen
Fields of golden grains stretch towards the horizon
The sun in all its glory has risen
Either in river children will play
Or by jumping into mounts of...

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Categories: double jeopardy, analogy, universe,
Form: Free verse
The Mercenary
Just when you think memories die
They say your life flashes before your eyes 
Silent nights 
Scripts of peace in a new born life
Hunger in days...

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Categories: double jeopardy, art, introspection, life, music,
Form: Lyric
Possibilities
It's possible to watch mom and pop split and comeback together again. Possible to roll the sixties in today's movement. Honor a white man during...

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Categories: double jeopardy, black african american,
Form: Prose
Nursing Cavities
Look at you now, nursing cavities
You're losing gravity, feeding your proclivities
Trying to maintain a high by creating new lows
You're up there but are you holding...

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Categories: double jeopardy, addiction, analogy, life, rap,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Does the Usa Want a Authoritative Form of Government
Does the USA want a authoritative form of government? That is solely administrated via governmental edicts? Of course not but that is the very direction...

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Categories: double jeopardy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
The Mercenary
Just when you think memories die
They say your life flashes before your eyes 
Silent nights 
Scripts of peace in a new born life
Hunger in days
Taken...

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Categories: double jeopardy, life, music, song-lyric
Form: Free verse
You Have To Be Carefully Taught
"You have to be taught to learn how to hate before you are five, six, seven or 
Eight.  To hate all the people your...

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Categories: double jeopardy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs