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Risk Poems - Poems about Risk

Premium Member At the Risk of Sounding Crazy, There Are Deities at the Roller Rink
They knelt behind a photo booth humming hymnals to a tooth- decayed brand of gen X truth— old gods' wants reclaim the youth. ...

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Categories: risk, age, analogy, destiny,
Form: Englyn
Premium Member Hopping Trains
On Friday nights we’d sneak into the railyard and wait in the shadows between the floodlights for a train slow enough for us to hop, our hands already tingling with the promise of flight. We trotted beside the train, waiting for the right moment to grab a boxcar’s ladder and climb to the roof like outlaws— aware of the danger and thrilled by it— as the train...

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Categories: risk, adventure, fear, high school,
Form: Free verse



The Chance You Get
Take that chance every chance you get, fall on your face and then forget, live your life without regret, take that chance every chance you get. More risk by far to never make the run, and lose your dreams one by one, and forgetting each until you’re done. Rather rise and embrace each day, another step on your chosen way, there’s no better time...

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Categories: risk, appreciation, confidence, destiny, future,
Form: Rhyme
Risk Avoidant
It’s easier to take a risk When youth will thus allow A bounce-back sensibility Which now I’d disavow. For when you’re young, you never think Of all that can go wrong. You live your life and merrily (Or not), you roll along. Yet age gives your perspective Quite an unexpected jolt. It may be building slowly Or strike like a lightning bolt. No matter how, you’ll...

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Categories: risk, age, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member walking a fine line
we've built this house of cards now that could tumble any moment should you unilaterally decide to change the game AP: 1st place 2025...

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Categories: risk, angst, change, conflict, games,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Loves at risk on other days
Love is at risk on other days. When expectation flags to stale bread. When hearts steal a glance before eyes are read. For love seeks no script, no stage, no cue, It's better ad-libbing than being spoon-fed. For the dullness of routine settles as dust. when tomorrow ups, and leaves the room, hoping for better times ahead, on other days....

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Categories: risk, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Risk a verse
How many times have I sat down to write When I worry over whether I might Not touch base with my fickle muse Without whose inspiration I will lose Whatever poetic conceits come to mind At which point I would feel totally resigned To leaving my pages unscribbled and blank As I felt my energy ebb and my spirit sank Then did...

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Categories: risk, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Risk Adverse
On the morrow ships will sail To roam beyond the hidden veil And brave the stormy seas to see If ships holds carry destiny Yet here we will to seaward keep The watch that holds our wandering feet From paths and fields and trees and thought Believing in the lies we've bought Waiting here on well worn quays To count the line of endless...

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Categories: risk, anxiety, longing, voyage,
Form: Rhyme
The Door of Uncertainty
The Door of Uncertainty what's behind it, no one knows the places it will lead you or the opportunities it holds The Door of Uncertainty will you twist it's knob or will you leave it untouched scared for what could be behind The Door of Uncertainty a place of unknown but, if no one takes the risk how are we gonna know The Door of Uncertainty where one...

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Categories: risk, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Untitled
there was a young cad named Dennis who liked to take risks with the women in Ennis one night with Darla in bed she suddenly said my husband will be home any minute ...

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Categories: risk, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Risk Quote
“If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it is like to win.” Richard Branson strange, I take many risks, but I still don’t know what it is like to win ...

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Categories: risk, philosophy,
Form: Monoku
Risk and Riot
Cold choice, listen to the voice! Waver filleth all! He who suffers Sin annoys? Blanching light, thy pall. Hated minutes of each day! Flickering in time! Doubt belies all disarray! Drop and drop, O dime! Slickened hatchet, cudgel black! Blood along the back! Stuff the world down bitter crack! What then profits? Stack? Weather, winter, splinter! Shredder, call the storm! Brutal blight, art beginner? Blizzard, keep us warm! Swarm of locust,...

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Categories: risk, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Maximum Risk
~ racehorses we bet on don't always finish first, yet we go all in. ~...

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Categories: risk, perspective,
Form: Monoku
The nanosecond bad **** to risk romance
The nanosecond bad a** to risk romance Twenty first century technology allows, enables, and provides instantaneous virtual unconsummated love. Within the course of a texting or sexting session one lovelorn lad (or grown man) can fabricate a faux impression with the young or old fellow claiming lineage as a reincarnated Hessian essentially a German trooper hired by the British to help fight during the American Revolution principally...

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Categories: risk, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Risk
Risk Risk taking can be Revolutionary if done with Right planning so, Rather than be overly cautious we should Really extend ourselves and hope for good Results. If we fail, we fail. But we can Rest assured at least we tried. ...

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Categories: risk, philosophy,
Form: Pleiades

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