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Best Fair Game Poems

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Fair Game
So many times you’ve shuffled the deck,
I don’t know which card will turn up next
So many times you’ve poisoned the well,
I don’t what lies you’re...

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Categories: fair game, america, anger, betrayal, bible,
Form: Political Verse



A Fair Game
It doesn't matter who you are,
A woman or a man,
A starlet or a super-star
Or just another fan.

You may be straight, you may be gay,
You have...

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Categories: fair game, gender, life, people, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Sarah's Story - Mental Illness
Sarah’s Story - Mental Illness

Sarah, the “Crazy Lady,” was a familiar sight,
roaming the streets any time of day or night.
Her foul body odor announced her...

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Categories: fair game, crazy, depression, hurt, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging -Part Deux
Dedicated to a fine poet on soup, Lin Lane
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I shook hands with my brother and bade him farewell
Then set off on my journey away from...

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Categories: fair game, america, children, family, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Ps Poets I Admire-Added Limericks
There are a few gentlemen I admire
Whose lovely poems set my heart afire
Though we live far apart
They all captured my heart
Their romantic verses make me...

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Categories: fair game, care, for him, poets,
Form: Limerick



Bullfighter and Bulls
A fuming, fierce and moving target
On yor species will you place yor bet!

Aiming the blade into shoulder blade or beating heart
all toreadors hope to throw...

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Categories: fair game, animal, sports,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member Ukraines Defiance
Ukraine is putting up a brave fight and is not giving in
A two finger salute to that murderer, Vladimar Putin
For eight months now they've held...

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Categories: fair game, death, evil, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
You Promised
Think again if you thought you could use me
Thought you were my friend but you're nothing
Talk to me like I'm not a lady
I'll teach you...

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Categories: fair game, abuse, allusion, anger, crazy,
Form: Bio
The Story of History
The Story of History  

Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With  the resurrected  sashay’s charmed night
Down in...

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Categories: fair game, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stephen King
Author Stephen King,
Writes stories that are shocking.
Horror is his claim to fame.
His books make nightmares fair game.

2013...

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Categories: fair game, celebrity, horror, writing,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Family Secrets
After all,
he taught Bible study
at our local church.

Mother caught him
kissing her cousin, Marie,
in the kitchen.

He groped cousin Anna
under the water
as we swam in the pond.
Anna’s...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fair game, abuse, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Family Secrets 2
He taught Bible study
at our local church.

Mother caught him kissing 
her cousin, Marie, in the kitchen.

He groped cousin Anna
under the water
as we swam in the...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fair game, addiction,
Form: Free verse
My Corporate Life and How It All Ended
I met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fair game, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Creative Process
Creative Process

Can I really write something astounding, grand, and glorious?
Reality should be a part of all I consider when approaching a theme. 
Events often drive...

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Categories: fair game, emotions, fantasy, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Acrostic
Hockey
Hockey is a game played on ice,
men (assumption) in thick pads,
swaking a 'puck' with sticks.
Tricky thing hockey can be see,
thick pads, icy playing fields...
but best...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fair game, sports
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs