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Best Jeopardy Poems

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Premium Member Humankind In Jeopardy


                       Humankind
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Categories: jeopardy, community, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Security In Jeopardy
The Social Security system

Is struggling to find a sound rhythm

     If Grandpa survives

     Past Age 65

Will Feds...

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Categories: jeopardy, funny
Form: Limerick
Before The Sun's Pieces
Before the sun's pieces,
Shine on brim's, coffee mug;
And with my prepping airs—
It's all jeopardy to 
Roll frost in bed somewhere.

Before the sun's pieces,
Rain in a...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jeopardy, deep, introspection, light, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Sly Fox
~SLY FOX~

There you go again little Sly fox P.D.
Another game of tag and jeopardy.
Clever, clever, little fox so bloodthirsty.
Chaos roams through your veins of liberty.
You...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jeopardy, adventure, crazy, cute love,
Form: Free verse
The Battle Within
A constant battle rages between my heart and mind.
The stress of my decision the devil himself must have assigned.
"Your health and sanity are in jeopardy"...

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Categories: jeopardy, angst, confusion, life, heart,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Curse of the Dead Sea
The Curse of the Dead Sea

Dark ghosts traveling through the chilled air mist
where rare rough rivers, eddied and revolved, in
twists around into a violent, furious...

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Categories: jeopardy, allegory, death, emotions, evil,
Form: Narrative
How Can I Be Saved
Q: "How can I be saved?"

A:  "Belief on the Lord Jesus Christ,
     and you will become saved."

Q: "How can I...

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Categories: jeopardy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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: jeopardy, history,
Form: Rhyme
A Special Place
I’m thinking of a place
with monkeys and a sled
A brand new jar of cottage cheese
just resting on the bed
An envelope with butterflies
upon the stamp it...

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Categories: jeopardy, imagination, love, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Grandma
Grandma

I miss grandma’s house after school, grandma’s house after church, grandma’s house after a long days work. I miss them because they remind me of...

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Categories: jeopardy, grandmother, grandparents, love,
Form: I do not know?
The Know It All
I started to read at the age of three
and know all the winners on Jeopardy
have posters of Einstein all over my walls
the theory of relativity...

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Categories: jeopardy, humor, smart,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Moments of Inertia
A funambulist
Walks the tightrope
Between mind and heart ~ 
An error of judgement
Places love in jeopardy

- - - - - - - - - - -...

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Categories: jeopardy, love,
Form: Tanka
The Searching (1995)
I’ve been dying inside for so many years
I’ve bee searching for a cure
I try so hard to understand what my body is telling me
I can...

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© Ron Flatow  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jeopardy, allegory, angst, confusion, forgiveness,
Form: Blank verse
Holocaust
In midst of night,
When I was deep in slumber,
The memory rattled,
Eyes sunk with fear,
Saw the houses crumble,
The trees tremble,
The thunder storm made me nimble,
The ocean...

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© Partha Pal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jeopardy, life, loss, natural disasters,
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: jeopardy, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs