Best Jeopardy Poems
Categories:
jeopardy, community, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Security In JeopardyThe Social Security system
Is struggling to find a sound rhythm
If Grandpa survives
Past Age 65
Will Feds send a posse to kill him?
*For Deb's "There once was a man from Dunkirk" limerick contest...
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Categories:
jeopardy, funny
Form:
Limerick
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 winds of yesterday’s grace, subsiding
Providing the nerve and strength needed
The dream traps doubt in its clutches
Freeing the mind to believe,
Feeling...
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Categories:
jeopardy, betrayal, endurance,
Form:
Etheree
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 sands
they dissolve
double jeopardy
a new life begins
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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Categories:
jeopardy, journey, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
Jeopardyhe kicked field goals
then Wheel of Fortune
Who is Rolf Benirschke?...
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Categories:
jeopardy, football, nostalgia,
Form:
Questionku
Wheel of Fortune and JeopardyWheel of Fortune and Jeopardy
I live and die with these shows
Must now be classified as a senior citizen
Only old people watch them, you know
Pat, Vanna, and Alex Trebek
Are like members of my immediate family
So familiar are the faces of these TV friends
Like branches on my...
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Categories:
jeopardy, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
No One Loses At Strip Jeopardy
No One Loses At "Strip Jeopardy!"
by Rick Rucker
My late wife and I used to play it with glee,
Saying "No one loses at 'Strip Jepoardy!'"
Answer a question right, then you see,
You don't have to shed clothes, you are covered completely!
Answer it wrong, your clothes you take...
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Categories:
jeopardy, funny
Form:
Couplet
JeopardyNothing I like more than a good Jeopardy show
The clues, many complex, on that answer board,
Two challengers trying to make the champion go
Betting in final what they think they can afford.
Jeopardy, in case you don’t know, is a trivia game
Given answers, players respond with a...
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Categories:
jeopardy, fun,
Form:
Light Verse
Incumbents In JeopardyWashington in flux
Stimulus dollars squandered
Corporate big wigs laugh --
Ignorant approach rebuked
Voters cast out incumbents...
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Categories:
jeopardy, political
Form:
Tanka
Jeopardy Contestantcaffeine circles my brain, loaded, laughing. i jolt upright in my sleep…
lessness. the ride through time….woke up in pea-thick fog, drank two
cups, went to church to pray and praise. chomped a burger, fries and
freed some more caffeine from an ice cold cup. worked a Sunday...
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Categories:
jeopardy, sleep,
Form:
Prose
JeopardyJ-eopardy of feeling the pain
O-bviously causes distress;
S-ilent sickness in spread
E-mploys the mysterious menace.
P-andemic jeopardy's threat
H-orribly sends the brutal beast;
I-nfectionconquers the world,
N-orth, South, West, and
E-ast.
M-itigate the dreaded danger,
U-pend the morbidity;
S-top the rabid risk,
A-nd abate the jeopardy.
Topic: Birthday of Josephine...
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Categories:
jeopardy, birthday,
Form:
Acrostic
Final Jeopardy3, 2, 1, ON AIR.
History for $100, Alex.
“A mutual defense pact led by
The city-state of Athens,
Whose expanding sphere of influence
Provoked the Peloponnesian War,
Leading to the downfall of prideful Athens.”
What is the Delian League?
That is correct.
History for $200, Alex.
“A mutual defense pact led by...
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Categories:
jeopardy, allegory, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Burlesque
I Can'T Take Another Love JeopardyWhy can't she see her love is not for me
Not when I gave all mine willing and free
To what degree should I have to plea
I want a love that is your guarantee
That comes with your personal honesty
I can't take another love jeopardy
That still lives in...
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Categories:
jeopardy, anger, dream, education, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Tonight On JeopardyTonight my daughter will be on Jeopardy
OH, how exciting that will be!
It's not easy to be an invited guest
but for a long time it's been her quest.
Tune in and watch my daughter play
As for the results I cannot say
It was taped a few months ago
and...
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Categories:
jeopardy, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
First Amendment In JeopardyLifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centuries ago
hoi polloi must take to the streets
denouncing severe curtailment
impinging sacred freedom of speech
linkedin with paramount bedrock provision
accessing unvarnished flint stoned "truth,"
nonetheless commander in chief
he quakingly,...
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Categories:
jeopardy, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Ode