Best Jeopardizing Poems
the heart is always right
unless this time it’s wrong
and this time is not like all the others
this game he must not lose
too much at risk
no room for error
is it worth the risk
has he hit the point of no return
is it really worth the venture
if it’s a go
execution must be meticulous
indeed the stakes are high
this gamble must be calculated
pros and cons be tallied
well thought through in every detail
arsenal of charm and tactics
gone out on a limb
a joyride down a slippery slope
jeopardizing the crown
winner take all
in pursuit of the gauntlet
ripple effect of a backlash
a chain reaction
hanging in the balance
this sort of entanglement
not for the foolhardy
it’s no sitcom for buffoons
at the slightest hiccup
fallout could be disastrous
will he roll the dice
at what point does
temptation become obsession
and seriously cloud all judgment
precarious and unpredictable
impetuous and highly flammable
the repercussions for frivolity
the high cost of capricious reverie
its longterm aftermath
risky business
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~CITYLIGHTS~ 2021
Read on air by invitation ~ August 13, 2021 'LATE NIGHT POETS'
AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2022
Submitted on August 2, 2021 for A BRIAN STRAND YOUR CHOICE POETRY contest sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST
Born the daughter of a Lemhi Shoshone chief
she was captured by the Hidatsa in her teens.
And sold to the Mandan Missouri River tribe
where she met and married Toussaint Charbonneau.
A French Canadian trapper and a trail guide
Charbonneau was familiar with the region.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent a
winter with the Mandan waiting for the spring thaw.
Toussaint and Sacagawea were hired as their guides
and in 1805 they set out to explore the wilderness.
While on the trail she gave birth to her son Pompey
and strapping him to a cradle-board they trudged on.
A strong woman and a gifted interpreter
known for her perseverance and resourcefulness.
Bird Woman helped to persuade many native tribes
of the peaceful intent of the expedition.
Once a canoe capsized jeopardizing all of
their valuable possessions and journal entries.
Yet she saved the logbooks of this epic journey
including the navigational charts and maps.
A legendary figure in history she
was indispensable to Lewis and Clark’s trek.
And today She’s honored on a golden dollar
a rare coin issued by the United States Mint.
**ABC FUN**
Funny vs' Rude~~
agrestic bugaboo creeps, dandle
'each-
other', footle gleeking,
happy, izzat...jillick, kibitz, ludic,
maffick, nothosonomia,
osculating, proudly, quizzing, riant,
squabash,
to unstable void, whelm, Xanthippe,
yodle, zingy.
*
Dark Death~~
aphotic burnt cardinal debris
everywhere, flammeous,
growing haematic, igniting,
jeopardizing, killing, lava,
madness, numb, 'Oppositional-
Defiant',
pulse, quantity,
rage, staged, tempered, under,
virescent, watch, ***, yield, zero.
*
Dream a little Dream~~
Accelerator, beating, captivating
dreaming, eruption,
fingerprints, ghost haunting,
invading,
journey,
'keebler-keeper', labyrinth, magic,
nightmare, odyssey,
path, quarantine, rainbows, snakes,
'tossing&turnning',
unconsciously, vertigo,
'wakening2wetness', x-rated,
yawning,
zoomed.
*
Dedicated and inspired by; Yasmin
Khan
By;pd
The Emancipation Proclamation was put
into effect in 1863,
That meant freedom for slaves,
the ones who looked like me,
blood, sweat, and bullets were shed along
with tears,
innocent civilians put through years of hell
and fed with fears,
nooses invaded necks,
in the home of the brave,
in the home of the slaves,
blood flowing as they gaze,
lynchings were congregational,
often invitational,
white kids kids were taught to look at
them as merely educational,
he is just another tally in the stat book,
slaves screaming until exhaustion as they
were made to look,
saliva often found homes on the pits of
our face,
jeopardizing our case,
exasperating our race,
if you had children they often vanished
without a trace,
we were taught not to embrace,
each other in any way,
I know the only way we made it out is the
good Lord's grace..
In this tumultuous political climate
I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete
They do not speak to me and my families’ needs
Neither do these elites know the suffering we go through
Day after day we look for respite from the turmoil of war
Wrought against us and human kind
Their arguments for war aren't compelling, they don't persuade and
are not in the best interest of the American people or the world's
I cannot drink the Kool-Aid they serve in golden goblets
I cannot and never would
One speaker speaks with a deceptive facade
The other in hate and pseudo outrageous promises
We, the people, are in mental turmoil, confused in crises
The world is in calamity and chaos and they don't care
They speak in tongues foreign to the human heart and spirit
Jeopardizing our national integrity
The Constitution is clear and doesn’t need to be re-interpreted
The Bill of Rights doesn’t have to be changed, just followed
The world is in serious flux, hazardously in danger
Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are in danger of becoming irrelevant
The people in charge have jeopardized our national integrity
Forgetting the basic thread that ties us all
Humanity! The welfare of people is what life is about
Integrity is at its root, the heart continues to beat
Our life is not a valuable Royal Delft Blue Vase filled with fragrant gardenias
Nor the life the elite would dare to endure
We are not part of their extravagant life style, but
We do live in the last bastion of those freedoms
Democracy is striving to survive
but is quickly slipping away
Being vigilant and smart thinking is to take the predators to task
Looters seek positions in government to enhance their status and wealth
People should know America's Freedom is for everyone
The forever struggling Eagle of Freedom will rise from this abyss again.
I am not afraid of Aids
You inflicted man with terror
By destroying the most beautiful thing on earth
That is love
This doesn’t matter whether you are poor or rich
Man used to share sentiments and to proof their blood connection through
making love
It’s the will of God that conception of a man derives from making love
You’re jeopardizing the art of the Almighty
You keep on killing them thinking that you could be the only stabilizing factor
on earth
You are wrong I am prepared for you
Come!! Come!! Come!!
Defeat the weak and those who are in denial of your existence
I test timeously to see whether you’re brave enough
Boffins has discovered a mechanism to ambush you
You fear ARVS like a nightmare of a prisoner
You decide to hide in the cheeks and joins
So that you can remain unconquered
Time is near
I wish to be there by the day of your elimination
To embrace my happy face and the tears of joy
The last incentive, souls be found
in large, monopolizing's wait
wrong's closeness, jeopardizing sound
and even breath ways lose relate.
That joint remorse, my neighbor's frowned
to but cause worry, replicate
my higher level, hope's astound
is bartered down to captivate.
The slavery of unholy bound
does figure out its own remorse,
tries chastity with futile ground
its smallness building ~ decimates.
The nothingness content to scowl
and act important, underrate
intimidation's constant growl
the ego maniac's known gate!
Were greatness but from Faith's relate
or known assumptions caustic sown
must change my method, contemplate
and leave my brother's curse alone!
Oh God, but center my ingrate
to prayers console, restoring tone
loss' need do reconcile abate
to gather measures truth consoles!
The all of mercy, healing's fate
is in our own hands, carry's hone
lives driven to the edge, full weight
must lift together ~ to bring home ~
the love God gave us . . . . as His own!
March 7 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 4-6
Key Verse –Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he (Sisera) had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY OPPRESSION-RESCUER
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your grace
Thank You for delivering me against selfishness-brace
Not letting me go away from Your divine race…
Here am I going with You along journey’s praise.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your law
Thank You for drawing me against edge of evil’s claw
Not letting me flee from Your will devoid of any flaw…
Here am I turning to You, overcoming frustration paw.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your governing
Thank You for driving me against captivity of sinning
Not letting me remain under dominion of vanity-dining…
Here am I abiding in You for heart cleaning.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your mercy
Thank You for discomfiting me against jeopardizing hypocrisy
Not letting me stay in the curses of bitterness-potency…
Here am I bowing to You with repentant heart of pardon’s expectancy.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your answer to my prayer
Thank You for dealing with me against my pride that’s soul-slayer
Not letting me prevail as a carnality-influenced flier…
Here am I coming to You as a humble seeker and crier.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your deliverance
Thank You for defending me against disobedience due to ignorance
Not letting me hide under the comfort of worldly assurance…
Here am I begging for Your patience-forbearance.
Lord God, You are my oppression-Rescuer by Your response to my plea
Thank You for directing me against influence of humanistic glee
Not letting me escape from Your calling of service-jubilee…
Here am I clinging to You, worshipping as Your child, spiritually free.
March 7, 2023
They were righteous men who would risk everything for their king
They were mighty men who would sacrifice their own lives even
Only a chosen few had the heart to yield themselves so willingly
Jeopardizing their lives was complete obedience
8/2/17
Incompatible, it's not going to work
I don't care if you do or don't go to church
Near and far from calm or extreme surf
The waters will murk
For what it's worth
I shall end your search
And go berserk
Across any turf
Time I make you hurt
And put you underneath the dirt
For trying to endanger lives on the Earth
And jeopardizing the universe
I'd call you more than a jerk
And knock you off your perch
No R.I.P. for you, or seeing your face on a shirt
If there's one thing I learnt
It's that they won't be the last or first
Which I why I stay alert
Time to draw the line
And rip out your spine
Since you enjoy stabbing others in the back with knives
Go ahead try to hide behind a disguise
Keep on spreading lies
It just may lead to your demise
And you rotting and decaying away among flies
If you're daily efforts and curriculum
Has to do with harming citizens
Then I'll be after you consistently with discipline
Doing the maximum and not the minimum
Meanwhile, the wheel of fortune, I'll give a spin
1/19/23
Getting through endeavors
Doing better
More focus on what is important instead of only pursuing pleasure
Even though ladies never give me the time of day
Like animals, I'm a stray
Just could not find my way
Deep down quite okay
I tell the truth, so it won't always be nice things I say
So much wrong in the world, no person should have been treated like a slave
Still today too many lives at stake
Jeopardizing people acting nice then snake
Regardless if they're asleep or wide awake
It's continuous occurring on since before the iron age
Is there any way to make the cycle change?
I have tried
24/7 at times
Took one step then hit landmines
Followed by a swarm of sand flies
I thought my heart had died
Because I flatlined
Now I just want love no bad vibes
It's what I always wanted, but I know that it's about damn time
If you let it too much toxic stuff can slide
I apologize if my mind is a bit hazy
Life get's crazy
I'm starting to like this lady
She thinks I'm similar to Slim Shady
Of our origin we still can't find a trace
Wake up we don't truly know if we evolved from primates
All these swines and fakes
These schmucks keep secrets and humans in a confined space
Had nothing to lose, then it turned high stakes
For too long was not in a nice place
Now got a better mind state
I still overdrink, and don't always hydrate
Like wild animals, I need to migrate
Much to achieve, so why wait?
Worldwide not just across five states
All this senseless violence and blind hate
I have improved
Back in the groove
Not the same old outlook and attitude
Working on making less bad moves
Despite being a lonely sad dude
I know that there is so much that I can do
And that that's true
A lot of bad luck
Instead of not giving a damn
In order to get through all the sad stuff
I had to become smarter work harder and man up
Making a splish splash
During the daylight or when it was pitch black
Often I'd give back
Having a profound impact
Occasionally I'll pop a tic-tac
Fiddle with knick-knacks
While at times in life it can get whack
Occasionally coming with whiplash
These clowns sweeter than a Kit-Kat
In a world full of endless chit-chat
Always over this and that
Despite speaking on it like it's a fact
What do you say now?
Is there anybody who want to foul?
Standing behind and knocking,
Little lady....I see this sparkle rocking,
Life is full of dream,
Can't distinguish the laughter from the scream,
Out from the frying pan...straight to the fire,
Serif stuck to support.....I never mind,
No answer but I'm super,
Have mercy,oh kind!
Life is full of twisting,....I and that lady felt in a deep love,
No money but made each other have,
I was just a dreamer,.....
Questions we both asked,...why this night is not for our two?
Gradually protracted the range of pain from our affection shoe,
Her complexion is beyond the pan of ebony,
It was silly,
Watching her in a magazine!
Liberating men on their gusts is sequentially annihilated by power....But what should I say then?
A prediction propels the phsychologist...
but what is the outcome from that list?
What is the source of inspiration laid under the equilibrium of an action?
A beige model,...thus the life prospects of a solemn speaker.
Endeavoring the downcast,setting pinnacles to catapult those beneath,
what is the supremacy of outcasts limit?
Elude with nothing but a pinched of a capricon's feather....
Rich man sitting in a pub....unconscious of his expense,
A white coloured worker aim at counting even a penny.
It's a secretion to tie many,
Veil the remarks of the low class in society,
Makes an uncovering of their best nasty,
Keep on jeopardizing the honorary of a paupers good motives in building societal ray,
Wax blended with a marble clay.
Yeah!....yeah!
A swampy worms will be their king size bed....
A pinhole camera is before an eye...gonna see,right!
Just an optimal glance welled,
It's branded with a momentum....if Job was shield with the pinion of might.
Oh just listen. With intent. Marvellous cure for impassive action. But quantities of questions remain. If stung by a bee or bitten by a frog always look away towards a town for this is the true ways of the fabled traditional gnome. Pheromones are jeopardizing health portals again. Huge sigh. Atmospheric aromas ate applicable applets arousing anteaters. Oh aardvark must you hide in lavatories. Must you not visit the weapon centre of 6 1 8 2. On a boat. On a cloud ship. Or in a vesicle. One must never argue with an acrimonious cutlery drawer. Very heightened senses of a small keg. Willing a waiting. Wanting a whale. But beetle skin is preferable to pasty lobster faces. So wave little flags then. In great masses. Hahahaha steaming steaks shuffling. Hahahaha and a small tomato dancing with a six foot cucumber. Xxxxx fabaceous z
Haunted by loss-angst that once gripped my heart
I couldn't defy my soul's crying shout:
"My coin... down the storm drain... gone forever!"
Acquainting me with treasure-loss despair.
Missing first slot for scholarship-honour
I felt that "gone forever" was my chance
Torturing my mind as a young learner
Jeopardizing my aim to be on the top.
Academic failure brought forth sorrow
I equated to grand award loss
There down the storm drain of good future jobs
Midst exertion of my dead-level best.
When confronted with my Mom's "sudden death"
I found myself losing a dearest love
There down into the storm drain of grief panic
Making me feel helplessly pitiful.
On my Dad's victorious celestial flight
My spirit rejoiced, yet dread attacked me
There down in the storm drain of burial grounds
Where departure does welcome loneliness.
With my special child's grim diagnosis
Of progressing toward retrogression
I seemed to be pushed into the storm drain
Patiently waiting for a future loss.
For all these painful loss-experiences...
God has upheld me with His grace and love
Teaching that "gone forever" means "not end"
Since in Him is reigning eternal triumph*.
*2Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ.
March 19, 2019
1st place, "Down a Storm Drain Gone Forever" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper; judged on 3/22/2019.
My Depression Lesson
Depression is a snake
...slithering into the psyche...
...creating loneliness...
...constricting the soul...
Obsessively
...living in the past...
...poisoning the present...
...jeopardizing the future...
A parasite consuming
...every thought...
...every emotion...
...every action...
Hiding in the
...darkest...
...deepest...
...most vulnerable places...
A shadow phantom
...floating...
...waiting...
...calculating...
A distant hiss
...panic...
...despair...
...exhaustion...
Whispering
...poisonous memories...
...failures...
...broken promises...
Shouting
...avoid...
...run...
...hide...
Strikes without warning
...incapacitating...
...paralyzing...
...revolting...
Slowly killing
...initiative...
...joy...
...love...
Depression is a snake
Beware.