Best Wagered Poems

On the streets of sin city, on the high roller's main drag,
Known as the Las Vegas Strip, a gentlemen phantom
Does stroll dressed in all black...

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heaven ...
is my prison ...
that dreamy, white tangle of
percale where your
limbs and mine weave sweaty magic -
a moon-daubed canvas of
pyretic passion, public ...
no shut-door, drawn-curtain...

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One afternoon fatigued I fell asleep 
and dreamed of wings, 
since then i have been migrating.
In my gamble of life
I have wagered my happiness,
and lost...

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There are times I thought I’d have to say
That my life was all but slipping away
When my heart and mind was numb and dead
When through...

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" Milk & Bananas "

Hmmmmmmm~ Thought Tea ??
Does this blend require lemon a'plenty?
Or shall it find lime more then amenable?
Shall such cup as is drunk...

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The roses were like black ice, dark as night. 
They lived in a crystal vase were they 
were fed their daily juice. My heart 
shivered...

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Time's flowing tributary; the future changes the past.
            Our burial cortege concludes its course...

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Poor Prince Hal, just wanted a pal, a friend
Someone to drink and laugh with til the end

Pawning all his hopes on white lies so far
Spending...

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Many people have seen him 
But no one knows his name 
That easy-walking white haired man 
Whose made his claim to fame 

One day in...

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Lazy hips/sugar lips
Dancing beneath these stars
Hazy faces/spaced out places
Still chasing the same daydreams
Dandelion fingertips/let me take a sip
The bets are wagered,the lines drawn
But we fall...

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Memorable moments mystified by gilted pardons,
Iridescent solicitude. 
Exclusiveness of me and you. 
Purge uncertainties born historically of mislaid intent.
Time presently misspent. 
Risked future wagered, 
Unbelievable...

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Some men screamed in shock, 
Some men demurred fiercely,
Some wagered lots of bucks, 
Some resented me dearly... 

But dead I'd rather be
If the truth I...

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Lonely Hearts
By Lola

We wasted time
For days and days
We let it flow
We waste away

We’re broken toys
With plastic hearts
We search the space
A place to start

Frozen in time
Our...

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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...

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An ancient wise man
Once wagered a bet, 
That he could capture the wind, 
In a butterfly net.  
      ...

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