Card Sharp Poems | Examples


Premium Member Clouds Laughed

More of this, more of that
    Fifty dogs, a hundred cats
  Never satisfied, never enough
    A card sharp, called million-dollar bluffs

  Porsches, Ferraris, Lamborghinis galore
    Never enough, needed far more
  Penthouse in Manhattan, two in L.A.
    Resorts in Palm Springs and Montego Bay

  Trumped the tallest towers
    Built a castle reached the sky
  Clouds laughed, then raced to form
    a simple question ~ W H Y?
Form: Rhyme

Crystalline Illusions

a moment
         a sunbeam 
passing through a window
So experience 
  crytalline illusions
  and see how 
 the dancer
     becomes the dance!
  Let us take note
     of birdsong in the
morning
    Perhaps you feel 
it's a kind of cosmic
  joke
played by a card sharp
    If you would stop and look 
for a moment 
   You would see thar 
crystalline illusions
   are the things 
that help us avoid despair
    If you want to 
taste the sunlight 
   Or feel the rain 
on you body 
    Just open your soul
to the sunrise and 
moonrise 
   which should guide you through
the days
Peace - Shalom - Yasu - Shanti
Form: Lyric


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