Best Numbers Game Poems

Ten trillion galaxies up there, down there, around here
Each with one hundred billion stars, give or take
Can you wrap your head around an octillion?
All I...

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In the end, it was the numbers that did us in.?
They lined us up into military rows and assigned us all numbers?
One after one after...

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Numbers Game
What happens when two serial killers meet? Do they argue on how many people they have to murder before they're officially 'serial killers'? One...

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I hardly recognize this
modern world
for it's changed so much
within my lifetime
I grew up
in a much different place
where people interacted
face to face
not through cutesy emojis
used in...

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This feedlot of ancestral glitter
how tiresome, now a  rummaged litter
a mitigated financed quitter
the addict, driven to mass rid stir!

As nature's boundaries pray beauty
the homeward...

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Numbers Count On Themselves

3’s make love in the open 
Twist with trees that turn from Winter
Count on music to reveal Spring
Several 7’s take lessons on...

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Help!

Cinquain
Poetic pain
Form defying function
Muse depressing numbers game.
Help!...

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Here stands a man who's just about to blow a gasket,
he has far too much washing in his basket,
he never asked for such a load,
and...

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some say is 6six6

deep in the Vatican

engraved on a door

of the inner sanctum

but who knows if

the pope is fallible

or if this numbers game

is propaganda

or spin...

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The smell of musty damp clothing 
held together by the touch of cheap thread.
And rough dogs bred for rabbiting
kept pots filled with law-abiding stew

When rickets...

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Bad Dreams

To write another poem, I now do propose
But how long before the words decompose
And maybe my style be required to change
Being that current one...

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Might as well be lined up
Before a firing squad
Victims on one side
Tyrants on the other
The game is not played with bullets
But manipulated for financial gain
We’re...

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Why do people create War?
Bombarding each other til the spirit is raw
Inflicting pain on strangers
It’s a numbers game...who kills more.

No one wants to lose
So death...

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To
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The ease with which we catch a cold,
Or hold, or up, or ball;
A numbers game in nature that,
Bar none, affects us all.

Gravity and friction
Games that...

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