Best Wager Poems

Would you care to flirt with something volitile?
I know a fire that burns - hot and melting
In vivid undulating ripples of heat
That will steal the youth from your skin
And dry the tears hidden in your eyes...
And you will never even know you are burning.

How can...

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My blind  
Loyalty never changes
I'll give the
Lembombo mountains away
And prove that true love exists...

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So tell me pilgrim what you feel
Do you believe your end is real, 
That on this plane your looming death
Is simple as a lapse of breath? 
Perhaps Pascal might give you pause
If you see worth in earthly laws.
Consider how his logic flows
And then reflect on...

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If she, 
a wager
odds are mine
a chance worthy bet
that love 
may not be 
life’s regret...

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Bring on the rejection slips and/or lost wager

Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt poor offspring privileged as prodigal son
pockets bursting with legal tender,
where just yesterday I had none.

All polite declinations
strung together would circle...
(fill in the blank)
matter of...

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A friendly wager between the two
A shake of hands and it was through 
God and the Devil struck a deal
How many souls could they steal
subjects of a sinister bet
Humans as the main event
Our fate a twisted competition 
boredom replaced by a bad decision 
Who would...

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WHEN FOREVER BECOMES NEVER

I NEVER LOOKED HER EYE TO EYE
YET I FEEL HER HAND TOUCHING MINE
HER GOODBYE NEVER MADE ME CRY
BUT SHE STILL SENDS SHIVERS UP MY SPINE

WE NEVER DANCED LIKE TWO LOVERS DO
BUT I FEEL AS THOUGH I'M LEADING HER FEET
SHE NEVER MADE MY...

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There’s nothing objective about spirit,
in that lies its strength and its truth

Unable to measure, only to feel,
its critics profane and uncouth

Science declares it the enemy,
its formulas explaining away

Why love has no bearing and within it we’re lost
—God’s execution unstayed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)...

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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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Heavy the weight of evil's darkened blight. 
In dread one breaks heart's vast moral compass. 
Sombre regret lays seige upon my brow. 
Bewitched my mind is rampant by false truths. 
For vanity lays waste to vanity. 
Mind's conflict changes like the river tide. 
Time's fleeting...

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Gleaming wager’s chart spells filmy odds
And tip triers to toss wee mites for more;
To forfeit modicums of ground for vaster 
Acres wider than the fabled Midas shore.

No curse greater than lost chances fair
Baked and gilded to enchant and deke, 
Verily sure-win swoops altered mid air;
Glittering...

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I
Does morality need some religion?
Does humanity need Creator, Creation?
If I'm good even when I'm bad
Morality and religion we must have
As with government, as with queens, king -
Humans need umpires in everything


II
If Jesus makes me a better being
Than I was as a Hindu, even Unbelieving
Where's the...

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