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Playing The Game Poems - Poems about Playing The Game

Playing The Game Poems - Examples of all types of poems about playing the game to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for playing the game.
Afternoon
...Hey, you’re looking kinda frigid Each step you take freezes the ground Let me warm you up by taking You out for some warm coffee It’ll be a sunny breezy afternoon Where the winds hit just r......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, cute love, fun, love,
Form: Free verse

Functionally Depressed
...Functionally depressed Got to work each day Do what everyone wants you to do Say the things they want you to say Just to make it through another day Mask so good even a clown can’t tell You ......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Interview
... "Conversation with the wind, theme #5." Wind, will you whisper softly murmuring low as you blow lifting the birdies on your currents swaying the wildflowers in the meadow ......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Playing the Game
... The donkey brays; the elephant trumpets, and the herds remain unprotected from the wolves and the jackals. What game shall we play; pin the tail on the Donkey or Elephants can't rememb......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member superbowl
...It’s a chill and rainy Saturday night in New Haven - it’s Superbowl eve! My roommates Leong, Anna and Lisa and I were playing a game of Upwards - it’s a scrabble-like word game and we’re all strangel......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, fun, humor, night, school,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member no win
...if you are in defence are you playing the game never moving forward whilst they do the same there's no fun to be had just stopping the play question what I am doing day after day after day I......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'm Kamala - your next President
...I'm sitting pretty biding my time Staying real quiet towing the line, For President Biden, that lovely old man Playing the game as only I can. Why make loud waves, somehow act up, When everyth......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, humor, identity, parody, political,
Form: Quatrain
pretend it's a poem
... as chopsticks for soup like a monkey eating scotch bonnets you have to want it good luck is a myth thin as a Theban cookie as your skin if you don't get it checked-off triggers in ac......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just for fun we dream
...Just for fun we dream, to pass time Perhaps we’re discontent Pausing not to feel our soul’s chime Fickle is heart’s intent God focus our sole aim Gently playing life’s game Such ......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, dream, god, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Sodbuster, Part II
......The days went by, and not that much changed, Black Ken’s gang ruled with orders deranged, bled people’s coin, every day the same, and I could just stand by and look. And when they seemed to ......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, character, conflict, evil, history,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member A Golfing Wife
...As a non-golfing husband I revel at tales Of sunshine filled days chasing small balls, Some in the rough others in sand, All these brave girls fighting nature's pitfalls. I hear of the times th......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, fun, golf, humorous, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It's All The Same In JESUS Name Elohim Creator Made ALL THINGS
...It’s not the same I don’t know pain Something in the name I am not playing this game It’s all the same In Jesus name Elohim creator made ALL THINGS It’s not the same The snow the ra......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, analogy, appreciation, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
the illusion of them
...It’s always better in your head; the reality won’t live up to the fantasy, So, just go to bed. Quit longing for the stolen glances or the racing heartbeat. They won’t suddenly confess, the......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, boy, crush, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Ignited By Deception
...The yellow neon sign casted a glow upon his chiselled cheekbones as the bustling sounds of a city that never slept droned on. He carried his troubles with him, like a worn out cloak, weighing him......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, dark, death, imagery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embracing Your Spirit of the Con
...Just because you didn't finish that thought Doesn't mean we didn't know what you were thinking And you’d think the voice in my head had no choice but to agree with me But the knife’s dripping......Read the rest...
Categories: playing the game, extended metaphor, fate, judgement,
Form: Free verse

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