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Premium Member When the Chips Are Down
A model enjoyed eating french fries
they began adding bulk to her thighs
As each chip passed her lips
Weight soon piled on her hips
Once skinny, she became...

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Categories: when the chips are down, body, food, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Count On You
When my world collapses
And I'm feeling blue
When the chips are down
Can I count on you

Will you stand by me
And help ease my pain
Will you walk...

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Categories: when the chips are down, life, love, me, world,
Form: Classicism
Begging Change From Society
The busted fire hydrant on the corner sprays water down like rain.
Water gushes down the dirty gutter, relieving this humid pain.

Sipping iced tea in their...

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© Susan Berg  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the chips are down, life, people, social, urban
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Middle Earth
a world 
shatters in pieces
then breaks
everything inside
emotions strength
to carry on

slowly the pieces
they come together
hidden to be found
fragile feelings
walking a path
one of tears

softly moaning
broken hearted
i walked...

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Categories: when the chips are down, dream, earth, moon, stars,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To the Unsung Angels
Written on 21st April 2012
By: Sashi. Prabhu (zeauoxian)
(This Ode is dedicated to the Administrative professional / Executive Administrative Assistants/Secretaries.  I dedicate this  to...

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Categories: when the chips are down, funeral, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme



Vows
When ones take a vow on the altar,
They are not just making a promise,
They are making a bond.
They are making a shield if one gets...

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Categories: when the chips are down, appreciation, bridal shower, celebration,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Number 22 In 1963
Number 22 in 1963


The prior season and many seasons past had been great for our school. However, the ‘62-’63 season was to prove disastrous for...

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Categories: when the chips are down, basketball, beauty, celebration, joy,
Form: Narrative
What's Your Flavour
The licks keep on coming but it doesn't taste the same
I'm just vanilla in The Rocky Road Hall of Shame
The bland mixed up and shaken
Watching...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the chips are down, analogy, assonance, confidence, depression,
Form: Personification
Premium Member This Defines Me
“I'm a no bull crap man”!

I don't tolerate anyone who talks,

out of the side of their mouth!

I have absolutely no time of day

for those sweet...

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Categories: when the chips are down, life,
Form: Narrative
On the Road To Bethlehem
I knew what I should’ve done, 
What most men would do, 
Ride the donkey and insist, 
That Mary walk, lower than me. 

But I knew...

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Categories: when the chips are down, animal, bullying, character, christmas,
Form: Blank verse
Let Life Win For Now
Let life win for now... when your head sadly down. 
 Let life win for now... when your chips are down, 
 Let life win...

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© Keith Relf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: when the chips are down, depression, faith, food, happiness,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Motor City 2016 Champion
2016 Motor City Open Champion

It has to happened, this day has to come...
When a low ranking player defied the odds as they come..

In a place...

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Categories: when the chips are down, appreciation, celebration, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Granda
When the storm clouds gather 
and the thunder rolls, 
when the chips are down and the blood runs cold, 
I hear the click of the...

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Categories: when the chips are down, farewell, father son, fathers
Form: Elegy
Stronger
Why do we think that no one can hear?
They keep their distance when we need them near
Friends don't call in or ring on the phone
That's...

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Categories: when the chips are down, anxiety, caregiving, character, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opposites
Opposites attract I've heard it said
A saying from way back yonder
What draws us together no one knows
It sure makes all of us ponder

Sweeter than chocolate...

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Categories: when the chips are down, love,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things