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Gambits Poems - Poems about Gambits

Premium MemberSomething About Her

...Not 5 feet tall she does stand proud, 
And trust me she can work the crowd. 
When job’s all done
She’s up for fun, 
And that comes with laughing out loud! 

Her children are grownups in fact, 
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Categories: gambits, humorous,
Form: Bio

We All Float

...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade.

Each mortal she ensnares,...
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Categories: gambits, dark,
Form: Free verse



Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes

...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories: gambits, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme

Dribbling

...Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to believe
More fo...
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Categories: gambits, angst, art, fish, money,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAuction of Emotions

...When fate pulls at my haiku of heartstrings,
I curse the syllables of my poetic musings.
If I do not express my sorrows,
how will petals blossom in my garden?

Upon the midst of bewilde...
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Categories: gambits, angst, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Free verse



Wrong Date

...It was not a Parisian café
though it tried to be.
Our teeth were strong
they flashed
intermittently.
The house wine was red,
the bread was good bread.
The creamy leaf was dressed,
it bloomed ...
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Categories: gambits, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Gift of Glory

...God gave me a great gift of glory
A gift of a good gracious guardian, 
Gifts of Gaiety, Gumption and Grief
God’s gift grants no gates for groveling
Nor are they gimmicks, glitches, nor guilt
Thu...
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Categories: gambits, god,
Form: Alliteration

Mine Conscience Exhorts Restitution Regarding Lost Wedding Band

...Thru deliberate seductive
liaisons, ploys, and underhanded gambits,
I tendered illicit, explicit and complicit shenanigans
blatant actions to foment coital adulteration.

Ofttime these discrete ...
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Categories: gambits, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOf Fate and the Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis

...Of Fate And The Choosing Between Scylla and Charybdis
(From Continued Greek Heroes And Mythology Series)
Part Two....
referenced, 
*Scylla and Charybdis, *Homer, *Iliad and The Odyssey, *Hades, *...
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Categories: gambits, art, encouraging, fate, history,
Form: Rhyme

I Asked Myself a Rhetorical Question

...I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
     undertaking, yielding...
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Categories: gambits, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Narrative

Here's Another One For the Lyricman

...Life As A Highway Robber

Escape from captivity pulled off
     when I came of age
boyhood begrudged,
     and bested by brigandage,

but willpower sans declaration
     of independence begot...
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Categories: gambits, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Love Redefined and Refined

...So deep a love to feel
Your muse Cupid would wonder
When the golden chance you couldn’t steal
Preferring instead to explore gambits like a gander

Pushing a prevarication scheme without a clear
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Categories: gambits, poems,
Form: Free verse

Rendezvous With Ecstasy

...RENDEZVOUS WITH ECSTASY

Had I a nonchalant finesse
Would you a rendezvous acquiesce
Or would my chances be precarious
Having failed with all my gambits various

I’ll try perchance a different...
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Categories: gambits, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSpring's Coming An Iou In Lieu

...Slovenly winter's sojourn lingers, but dwindles away.
Petulant cold snaps, squalls and hail the exit price you pay.
Riddance wrung from season squeezed by hugs to relent reluctantly.
In dawn's bud...
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Categories: gambits, feelings, hope, spring,
Form: Free verse

Sheh-Mate

...I like the chess. 
The figures are equal 
and clear the rules
(with a little superiority 
after all of the white)
And various gambits
the women’s and
the king’s ones
are the beauty.
And in t...
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Categories: gambits, games,
Form: Free verse

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