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Best Play The Hand You Poems

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Premium Member Freefall
Clarity comes and goes like a prize to be had
Fleeting moments of happiness, hours spent sad
To seek its return brings sorrow as goodness turns bad
Contentment...

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Categories: play the hand you, feelings, life,
Form: Rhyme



Lifes Journey
She's haunted by the what ifs,
The why's and what could have been,
She's haunted by mistakes she's made,
That shattered all her dreams.

If only she could reverse...

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Categories: play the hand you, emotions, faith, god, life,
Form: Quatrain
Amidst the Stress and Strains of Life
Amidst the stress and strains of life rejoice
Don't fold now, you still can play the hand
Forget old rules, make a new paradigm for choice
The brail...

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Categories: play the hand you, hope, inspirational, upliftinggod, god,
Form: Verse
Life
I don't know what to think,
cuz trust me life can be really mean,
It doesn't take it easy on you,
Just because you don't know what to...

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Categories: play the hand you, life,
Form: Alliteration
Rain Showers
The Earth dry and bare; waiting eagerly for the drops of care;
 


Caught in the hot, steaming summer’s snare;
 


The flowers and creepers decorating window...

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Categories: play the hand you, nature, life, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse



Love To Hate Hate To Love
Lessen not thy pain heal thy broken hearts.
Rejoice forth for a new love shall arrive.
Penance shall not ease it, with pain alive.
For fault of your...

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Categories: play the hand you, emotions, happiness, heartbroken, lost
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Bad Rap
Babygirl, someone needs to say
you can't go on acting this way.
If you don't learn another tune,
the party will be over soon.

Rude, without a clue
know-it-all, that's...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play the hand you, character, feelings, girl, growing
Form: Lyric
Premium Member So Little Time
So Little Time

If I seem a little down and sometimes wear a frown,
I guess it’s just because I get a little sad.
It’s so hard to...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play the hand you, angst, betrayal, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Name Is Catastrophe
Hell hath no replete replica like an Ohiohell
memom memoboys dispelled with lovelessloss lorn laments
measured in misgiven gravid neutral grautities of cool compromised cruel
capsid cascades of...

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Categories: play the hand you, angst, child, father, children,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of a Friend the Potential Loss of Another
The loss of a friend
- Kenny - 58 years.

May the blue skies
and your brown eyes
be filled not – with a tear,
only memories of everything dear...

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Categories: play the hand you, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Meet On the Upper Floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was...

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Categories: play the hand you, beauty, change, emotions, friendship
Form: Narrative
Tomorrow Never Comes
In three days I'll be seventy, 
that's three score years and ten. 
I'll have had the promised lifetime
that the good book gives me then. 

I'll...

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Categories: play the hand you, age, birthday, fun, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Playing the New Card
Mah Jongg is a game that’s strange
‘Cause every year the cards will change,
So you may try to play a hand
That once was there at your...

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Categories: play the hand you, games,
Form: Rhyme
Matters of Life and Death
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Isn’t life short, today here tomorrow gone.
Switching the world off, turning eternity on.
How many before us, in the world have lived?
Just...

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Categories: play the hand you, age, death, heaven, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Where Pain Comes From
Does anyone know where pain comes from?
It's invisible, but easy to find
Is it buried down deep inside the heart?
Is it growing inside our mind?

Or maybe...

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© Larry Belt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: play the hand you, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs