Forfeiture Poems | Examples


Games Not To End In Death

Don’t start a game ending in death,
Something there: forfeiture of breath!
Don’t mind Superstar Bruce Lee,
His Game of Death Kung Fu we see.
Next, the player lodged in some heath,
To The Living Death: Living Threat!”

Don’t think of a game marked by risk.
The sort guys start and taste the whisk
“You’re a rogue who’d begun to frisk:
You were breathing fast, your steps brisk!”

Great hopes from games lovers treasure:
Don’t think its pleasure a measure:
You wrongly measure its pleasure,
Games should often be for leisure…

Addressed I have one’s intellect:
A message for it to collect.

Magic

Genuine dollars from just shredded papers!
Risked bloodless jumps from sky scrapers!
A repeated mad stabbing of one’s bowel with a dagger,
one amusedly looking back at the waiters for a stagger;
All, a seeming control of Autonomous Nature,
To the mightily attracted, an enough mental torture.
His bamboozled face sometimes worshipfully handsome
Over a barefaced holding of Nature to ransom…
This, though, a piteous misconstruction of Reality,
As magic remains miles away from Actuality;
Just as Scheming, Ingenious Devil is from God
And a gestured ‘nay’ from ‘a nod’…
In theatres commercially displayed
And in open squares freely replayed,
Faultless jobs that are but a trick,
Disparaging Laws strong like Brick;
Undeserving pockets with money stashing
And deceiving graceful necks garlanding…
If magical powers be Satan’s invention
Then one is a professing achiever of his invention,
At once, his minister
With clearly missions sinister.
Settling for a tomorrow wearing a puncture
And unthinking forfeiture of a happy future.


Hidden Hand Inurned

Snake oily palms
got a-plenty 
under the table plans

Synthetic sly reptilian smile
bewitching many
Picking pockets with a hidden hand

Real filthy lucre fingernails 
have the zircon gluttonous glow
that enticingly Endora sells 

Dirty laundered money
boa clutches 
that unclean epidermal soul

Those cobra soundbytes ain’t adder funny,
them sticky finger touches
love taking venom spit control

Dealing so anaconda treacherous 
from the bottom of the deck
Pale poker face don’t wink reveal the poison ivy tell

Diamondback enamel scales
cover thorny digits — 
Five fingers of sleight close the eclipse-colored veil  

Oz-vader gator vice grip
unevenly tilt the bottom line balance
Stolen zeroes get a counterfeit eulogy farewell 

Sympathetic shakes of hollow sincerity
accompany the revenue loss burial
Tainted double-cross lots of empty purse plots

Fervent loan believers only learn
when they forfeiture fit get iron glove squeezed
By the mint hidden hand inurned

Phantom phalanges scratch pilfering churn ...   
fungi finger worms make the dirty green soil toxic turn
Emitting a dollar scent viper vapor burned

Syllogistics

Comparisons are unerring things at worst; 
Every common ore yielded for shinier gold, 
And tepid junkets given up in apt forfeiture
For tolerably pricier carats unsullied stored. 

Far less treasured lots perpetually stand
In shrouded paths to more pleasing deal, 
And more often than not emit lures bland
To fade jollities owners of finer gems feel. 

Prudent choosers are harder to hoodwink; 
They're grateful to know how to swiftly tell 
Vast variance between wee penny's worth
And huger wads quiet past old minas' kink. 

They're merrier types closer to Midas lips; 
Smarter-thinking pickers noted with strips
Of fair Fortune's higher turns beyond taste, 
Loftier than Fancy's dreams and her haste. 

With comparative logic one never can err, 
Since brighter minds cheap choices abhor.

Premium Member This Is War

These are not wars,
These are not soldiers.
These are games,
These are pawns.
Pit against one another by Kings, Queens; their Bishops and their Rooks.
Hiding, yet again, behind what they took.

Look not to the knights in armor,
Which shine with none other than reflection,
Of those faces who grimace and wince behind iron,
Only to be diffracted into the shields of another’s cast.

Tyranny once beheaded by the behemoth of forfeiture,
Now thrives cringing at the sight beneath its hand.
As black and red trickles in cubic matrimony,
‘Tween those who choose others to fall flat in their own game.

Choose your wars,
Choose your soldiers.
For this is but a game,
We are the pawns pit against one another;
Locked with useless ebony and ivory keys,
To perform for the royal court, yet again.


Forfeiture

forfeiture of all
emotional assets 
after the emotional 
estrangement occurred 
has left a large hole 
in the heart never 
to be filled again

Bent Elucidations

A Foreigner in a land of chicanery, can't see the forest nor
 destiny aimlessly adrift tween dusky skylines searching
 'pon comet-like nights, 'neath the shine of absurdity
 mistaking stardust for certainty, there was an inkling
 once upon a brief interlude 'tween misconceptions, 
when the sun ravished moonbeams and earth split
 its gravitational force wrenching an indubitable forfeiture,
 examining life from otherwise similar sides of continuum's
unfathomable folds, careening beyond askew gradient elucidations 
into abstruse significance 'midst hallelujah inferences weeping,
misleading each sway of deceptive constructs yielding complexities' 
   mid psychotic beliefs, invariably questioning timeless persuasions

Tribute To Horatio Nelson

Thou 
great 
son 
of 
the 
land!

Salute! 
Salute!! 
We 
Salute 
thee!!!
An 
unwavering 
patriot, 
undaunted 
mountain.
British 
admiral 
and 
nava 
hero.
Toulon 
submitted 
to 
thy 
naval 
prowess.
At 
Calvi,thy 
right 
eye 
was 
obliterated,thou 
was 
not 
shaken.
Thy 
prominient 
role 
led 
to 
victories 
off 
Cape 
Saint 
Vincent,the 
nile 
battle; 
great 
conqueror,Napoleon
Advanced 
not 
cos 
of 
thy 
heroic 
strikes.
With 
amputated 
left 
hand,thou 
took 
on 
with 
the 
battle-
cry 
for 
thy 
fatherland.
Created 
Duke,a 
vice-
admiral,more 
services 
thou 
accepted: 
in 
battle 
of 
Copenhagen,thy 
rare 
abilities 
manifested-
in 
gratitude,a 
Viscount 
thou 
became.
  Battle 
of 
Trafalgar 
1805 
French 
and 
Spanish 
fleets 
were 
crushed.
Thy 
personal 
charge 
in 
thy 
flagship"victory" 
defeated 
the 
invasion 
of 
Napoleon.
Oh! 
How 
hath 
the 
mighty 
fallen,forfeiture 
of 
thy 
life,
a 
paid 
price 
for 
victory.
Rest 
great 
son 
of 
Britain, 
for 
in 
hearts 
of 
all,thou 
breatheth!

Forfeiture of Thought

So tangled in a web of futility
Where trying minds refuse to bend
No broken strand for to escape
Unable then to just transcend

Captured by intermingling notions
Whereby nothing fruitful so attempts
We’re lost upon this desolate ocean
Spiraling through an outward descent

Tyrannical Colonial Kings....

Fallacy....inappropriate fantasy

Fantasy.....anticipated reality

Reality.....imaginative stability

Stability.....exacting security

Security....forfeiture from fallacy......

Vain glory be hi-story......infamy be thy shame
baneful flourish from ruse historic,
enemies created to blame......

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