Best Playing The Game Poems
Below are the all-time best Playing The Game poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of playing the game poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Game, Playing the Game'I want you to use all your powers and your skills
I don’t want his mother to see him like this
Look, look how they massacred my...
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Categories:
playing the game, loss, son,
Form:
Free verse
HopefulTime to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark...
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Categories:
playing the game, anti bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Acts of Aggression Based on a quote from Watership Down:
"He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running."
His...
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Categories:
playing the game, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Fantasizing a Little One On OneThere's a certain somebody out there
i'd rather not name......
showed a little interest , at playing a game ,
she's bold in her talent's ,
say's she'll put...
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Categories:
playing the game, friendship, passion, sports,
Form:
Free verse
The Blue and the GreyUnder the canopy of the pine trees we lay
My brothers and I, and our mates the other three,
They wore a different uniform the colour grey
Yet...
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Categories:
playing the game, best friend, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Que Seurat, SeuratLike a Seurat painting
I view my life up close
and see a million tiny colored dots:
eating breakfast
...
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Categories:
playing the game, art, love,
Form:
Ekphrasis
State of MindWe start out this life all the same-
Looking for happiness while playing life’s game;
We search for another to help us get through-
For we think that’s...
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Categories:
playing the game, happiness, life, poems, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
Ignited By DeceptionThe yellow neon sign casted a glow upon his chiselled cheekbones as the bustling sounds of a city that never slept droned on.
He carried...
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Categories:
playing the game, dark, death, imagery, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Black Rain~BLACK RAIN~
Another rainy stormy night,
nothing will ever feel the same.
Thunder makes me fear with fright,
Theirs no way to call your name.
To be alone is no...
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Categories:
playing the game, betrayal, break up, dark,
Form:
Lyric
The Outfield BoyThe outfield boy stands waiting all alone,
playing the game that many children love.
From the pitcher’s mound, a ball has been thrown.
The outfield boy stands waiting...
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Categories:
playing the game, baseball, boy,
Form:
Triolet
Through the Looking GlassThe mirror reflected her face, pained with
Hate and self-loathing
Rueing her actions from the night before
On waking to find herself naked, lying beside him
Under the influence...
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Categories:
playing the game, angst, lost love
Form:
Acrostic
Fire MonkeyCunningly swinging
On the trees of life
Playing his pranks
Winding up the wife
Enjoying every challenge
Using his brain
Owning it. Bossing it
Playing the game
He's a Chinese Monkey
- a...
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Categories:
playing the game, animal,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
playing the game, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Cement PillowCement Pillow
Blame, blame, blame
makes playing life’s game so much easier to do…
Shift it, change it, switch it as long as it ain’t put on you.
Blame,...
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Categories:
playing the game, change, conflict, confusion, for
Form:
Free verse
Murdered MeMurdered me with your love
Murdered me with your lies
I could see the rage when I looked into your eyes
You told me that you...
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Categories:
playing the game, abuse, death, death of
Form:
Sonnet