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Best Gamblers Poems

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Gamblers Anonymous
To these meetings, many more people will go,
as long as the gambling industry continues to grow.
Folks come from the track, the lottery, and the casino.
Outside...

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Categories: gamblers, hope, people, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Porcelain Doll
Porcelain doll, with a face so pretty 
a country gal, ran away to the city 
Worked in a bar, dancing on tables 
beat shovelling sh-it,...

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Categories: gamblers, age, allusion, girl, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sleuth of Soup Creek
With a fresh cup of coffee, I stepped outside to have a peek.
It was another peaceful morning, in the valley around Soup Creek.
I caught the...

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Categories: gamblers, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chance Meeting
We met by chance and are happy that we met
For our love is blossoming and getting stronger 
Let us flow in our destiny and let...

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Categories: gamblers, love,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member An Old Shovel
In 1890, cowboy Bob Womack found gold at the base of lofty Pikes Peak!
In short order a ramshackle town was founded called Cripple Creek.
Hordes of...

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Categories: gamblers, fate, humorous, mountains,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Stagecoach
I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
There were the usual horse collars, clocks and various sundries on display.
Havin' no need fer...

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Categories: gamblers, cowboy-western, old, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Violence of Money
There is never an ending
		to the spending
	a world of paper
and plastic to collect
and horde
	clothes
	and cars
	and homes
	and jewelry
	and fine wine
	and paintings
	stocks and bonds
	vacations 
and expectations
entire vocations...

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Categories: gamblers, anger, anxiety, violence,
Form: Verse
The Cool, Roan Rider, Part I
He trotted up to Hamlin’s Bar,
stopping in for a quick drink.
He sat a tall, blue roan Mustang,
with a hide like darkest ink.

He paced into the...

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Categories: gamblers, adventure, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Ballad of 'soapy' Smith
Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' Smith was the wiliest scoundrel in the west!
He was invited to leave numerous towns since he wasn't a welcome guest!
He swindled gullible...

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Categories: gamblers, cowboy-western, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Go West, Young Man (But Not So Fast)!
The old saw "Go West, Young Man" is attributed to Horace Greeley,
But it was coined by a writer from a Terre Haute paper, really!
Horace was...

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Categories: gamblers, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Legendary Wild West
Back in the days, when men bold,
spun golden legends;
of exploits in the wild west;
of punch-in and herd-in cows
and saloon brawls where they’d shoot
and scores of...

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Categories: gamblers, adventure, history, horse, nostalgia,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Land of the Lost
Land of the Lost

Time in time out
What's it all about

Got no freedom
Drunk on rum

Russian roulette full of fun
Empty barrel, trigger gun

Bust a cop
Prison mob

Modern warfare
Lord's...

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Categories: gamblers, life
Form: Couplet
Spammer Smackdown
IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA 
BASE FORTHWITH.
ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, 
SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS,...

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Categories: gamblers, bullying, computer, internet, rude,
Form: I do not know?
How Gambling Haram Harms
Our religion forbids all 
games of chance guys
We ain't allowed to 
indulge in that harmful 
enterprise
But no one can claim that 
gambling is at all...

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Categories: gamblers, abuse, addiction, games,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Town Called Rotgut
Armadilly Billy the Sling Shot Kidster was steadily on the move.
He was leaving the Southwest and his reputation behind, for sure!
Every gunslinger was out for...

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Categories: gamblers, adventure, character, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Light Verse

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