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Best Poker Faced Poems

Below are the all-time best Poker Faced poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of poker faced poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: poker faced, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Theft of My Will To Survive
Blindly.. 
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame 
nor a compass rose can help me now
in...

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Categories: poker faced, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Fated To Love
Fated to Love


Best to simply weigh the heart with a poppy seed
Counter balance on granite
All its rhythmical surging
Its expeditious life
Amounts to nothing

Better then, not to...

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Categories: poker faced, loveheart, heart, me, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Californy
Jack was sitting poker faced 
With bullets backed by bitches.
Neal hunched at the wheel 
Puttin everyone in stitches.
He was braggin 'bout 
This nurse he'd screwed,...

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Categories: poker faced, america, time, travel,
Form: Free verse
Old School
I can turn up that street any time I wish;
I pass that post box frequently enough,
But there is no returning, that’s the twist,
Time’s poker faced,...

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Categories: poker faced, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet



Betting Against My Heart
Once again, you’re putting out your blinds
It’s this wicked game you play at minds 
With the chiseled pot concealed,
My heart’s cards are now revealed.

I’m getting...

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Categories: poker faced, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and...

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Categories: poker faced, age, community, crazy, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lost Doll Ld
The lost doll was soon replaced
by the kind stranger, poker faced,
who said the doll looks not the same,
having changed both face and name
but may yet...

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Categories: poker faced, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Spiritedly Distilling Social Graces
Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
     terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except

...

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Categories: poker faced, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teacher Creatures
I only learned one thing in school
And that was how to fight
The teachers were always so good at it
And they were always right.

One teacher was...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poker faced, humor, school, planet,
Form: Free verse
I Sail Boat
As drops from the clouds cease,
I stroll to meet a friend of mine
a paper boat in hand, a local boy
runs from the PDS shop queue,...

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Categories: poker faced, boat, fun, rain,
Form: Free verse
Enjoy While It Lasts
ENJOY WHILE IT LASTS………
Sparkling like sparkles,
Sunny like mine sunshine,
Bubbly like bubbles in beer,
And frisky like a fizzy drink,
Enjoy while it lasts………….

Gloomy like a cavern,
Morose like...

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© Ritty Ann  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poker faced, desire, life,
Form: Rhyme
Hope, Resurrected
The signs of passion are poker faced.

I spend my nights in deathly ardor

Digging deep into the muffled dreams

That cry for forgiveness..

I take a puff of...

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© Iman Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poker faced, recovery from..., sad, pain,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Who Dunnit
I'm squirming in a chair of oak,
with narrow arms.  My buttocks numb,
and all the while the clock ticks on.

While folks are grim, with furrowed...

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Categories: poker faced, confusion, innocence, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Feast of Chaos
The undertaker prepped him voguishly
Like there was a party six feet below
The earth where anosmic maggots
Were tamed by steep fragrance

He is dead, he is dead
Of...

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Categories: poker faced, farewell, strength, violence,
Form: Free verse

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