Best Stakes Poems

losing at some game
produces very little shame
no one else to blame
pride quite easy to reclaim
nothing ventured nothing gained

big or little stakes
wagers may keep minds awake
or make weak souls shake
don't bet what shouldn't be lost
keep in mind that final cost

losing in a war
involves relatively more
lost for...

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Stakes Root Deeper

When the stakes
are life on Earth,
all else is a diversion.
     Susan Murphy Roshi

Here we have co-invested stakes
nondualing claims 
of sacred and secular health causes,
and disinvested destroying diversions,
perversions,
distortions,
dismay,
retributions.

Susan Murphy is a Zen teacher,
so diversions from shared stakes
are Empty LeftBrain Egos,
like...

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Trippy hippie likes risky frisky.
Doing gambles of one's living....

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the worse it gets, it gets “worser”
a better death is a misnomer
those greedy fingers
and trespassing eyes
the passing of a plate of lies
the only thing that’s shared —
a shovel that heaps dirt
over the “loved one’s” hurt

7/26/2018...

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will you anti your stake
when I bring this all up
or will you be surprised
that it isn't enough
will you chuck these past months
thinking I gave what I had
or will you work harder
and take one more stab...

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In troubled times, when people join,
United in resistance,
They share a common hope to find
A peaceful coexistence.

Perhaps they march or chant or sing
While others watch and wonder
If change can be the end result
Of anger’s zeal and thunder.

Or will the protests and the pleas
Fade back to what...

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Did you bear contentment, leave a fragile footprint
or were you a swine rooting pristine into mud
what will they say as your bones blow away
did you paint stars or did you spill blood.
Were you a gold giver or impish tin taker
Is the character granite or wove...

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High-stakes impression,
style is never casual.
All in, fresh laundry....

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