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Gambles Poems - Poems about Gambles

WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM

...WHEN RELIGION BECOMES 
YOUR OPIUM 

When religion becomes your 
opium you slip into icy pre-dawn 
to mosque then lie in fever flu 
at dusk as bilal calls again
for you to stumble towards 
bec...
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Categories: gambles, 12th grade, deep, god,
Form: Alliteration

Lessons From History

...Lessons From History

When Hitler was voted into power
He scraped in (voting was a shambles),
But he knew it had come, this was his hour,
And so he took one of his biggest gambles.

He knew hi...
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Categories: gambles, political,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberThe Rot of the Republic

...Listen up, 'cause I'm about to spit some truth
About a disease that's eating our society from the root
Corruption, the silent killer, the thief in the night
Stealing our future, our justice, our r...
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Categories: gambles, corruption, people, power, society,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes

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I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves 
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels 
all the changing faces played
automati...
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Categories: gambles, i am, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTHE GANGSTER, Spoken by the popular SILENT ONE

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Appreciation:
A big thank you Silent One for your splendid narration of this poem.

THE GANGSTER

Through foreboding, whispering,...
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Categories: gambles, art, conflict, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberJagged

...Written: October 19, 2023

Poem in the Fragmented Form Created by Poetess: Constance la France

The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges because those edges cut things and...
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Categories: gambles, analogy, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Hustlers Life Part 1

...Moms wondering when her son will come home
She don’t realize he now belong to the road
Chose his own destiny, a hustler’s life
Married the game, she’s a demanding young wife
He’s lost sight
Thro...
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Categories: gambles, 12th grade, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGame of Chance

..."Blow on the dice and let them roll,"
says those who trust their lives to chance.
Allow cruel fate to take control.
"Blow on the dice and let them roll,"
The words of destiny cajole.
Kismet gamb...
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Categories: gambles, games, life,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberHigh Stakes

...Trippy hippie likes risky frisky.
Doing gambles of one's living....
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Categories: gambles, addiction, allusion, crazy, drug,
Form: Crystalline

What Did I Do To Deserve This?

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I just want to f*cking die.
Hell would be better tonight.
As this devil gambles with my life
Disguising itself as a saint.
My talent fades away
Into the horizon, bleeding me dry.
Yet stil...
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Categories: gambles, anger, depression, grief, school,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Creek Christmas Carol

...[Away In A Manger - revisited]

Where Dave is the ranger
And Tom is the mayor
The saloon is open
And Milt gambles there

On high in the night sky
A star ’bove the church
The beacon of...
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Categories: gambles, christmas,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberNews Report

...they had piled up tinder wood and firecrackers
under the cauldron ready for the feast as they
shelled out wisdom and claimed justice
after all humanity was at stake
and doomsayers were to be plea...
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Categories: gambles, war,
Form: Free verse

Morning

...Morning is a bright looking florescent
that unfold splashes of sultriness;
thrilling luminosity blewing off saturnine 
incessantly each day you awake
to greet your pallid-cream face.

It shoot ...
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Categories: gambles, addiction, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme

Lullaby For Sleepy Joe

...Old Man  Biden
Dat old Joe Biden
He must know somethin
But seems like nothin
But he keeps rollin 
He Keeps on rollin along

Old man Biden 
dat old man Biden
While country’s slidin
He stays ...
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Categories: gambles, allusion, political,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberRendered

...Reproduction is oocyting.
With beingness what it is.
From eggs we all develop
as does everything that lives.

500 cardinal gambles tendered
for congress milt to meet, before
fecund moons by pe...
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Categories: gambles, animal, baby, creation, father,
Form: Rhyme

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