Short Fair Game Poems

All's fair in love, and war isn't a fair game     It's people who are fair game...

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Author Stephen King,
Writes stories that are shocking.
Horror is his claim to fame.
His books make nightmares fair game.

2013...

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A drunk redneck fell out of his pickup
While in the middle of a big hiccup
When a needy dame
Saw the new fair game
And wondered how she’d pick up that hick up

2/20/16...

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It's a wall we all create
It's one few of us escape
Everyone is fair game
Every style every name

It's the first impression wall
On everyone it befalls
This wall is hard to break
As it is easy to make...

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Let secrets stay secret
Share them with no one
Because the second you loosen them
They are everyone’s fair game
Shared by strangers
Never again a true secret
But you only told one person?
Please do not be naive....

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There is this guy of 'Poetry Soup' Fame
Ran a contest with 'I just can't win' Name
Because he will not count past three
Ninety seven losers there will be
Guess i will just have to be 'Fair Game'!

© Harry J Horsman  2012...

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Perception  
Illumination
How it is known
Though is a fair game
Others became a judge
Played the same game 

In perception 
How far ahead to unknown
Thought a line between
Never drawn in fight being
Illumination became a perception...

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Send the kids to school to be shot
Or church to become a sex pot
With COVID-19
Becoming a teen
May be the slimmest chance they've got!  

n.b.   Texans believe life is only sacred
until the breath of life is inhaled
after which everyone is fair game! ...

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the pub is noisy
full of that masking smoke
called company

i am adrift

you are isolated
by sadness

fair game

i need to tell you
I am not him
only a shadow of him

yet if you want
i am available
in a room somewhere

a rented space

where we can both be 
company
for this longing...

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As  majority young Africans
think about decolonisation
of Africa,  
many westerners  
plan the recolonisation
of Africa.
It is a fair game
to young africans
who stand for their rights 
and 
a dangerous game
to some westerners 
who continue planning 
evil actions
secretly 
to majority  
Africans....

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bald eagle circling bare fields

cropped grain in sharp focus -

hare fair game for nature’s call


waterfall refusing to rise above

climatic change to see for all -

central vision gravely impaired


cataracts speeding up shadows

snow fall veils scarred curtains-

crow cautiously picks bull’s eye


05th February 2020...

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How can they play a fair game ;
when there is no shame.
Bitterness, jealousy,and envy rules,
in many of those Ivy Leagues schools.
May you come to use your own head,
and not follow those off-base rules,
of the crowd of wiley, worldly fools.
Monkey see,and monkey do,
learn the whole picture...
and seek the whole view! 


Copyright McCuen 2009...

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Falcon of death
Circling the sky
Contemplating choosing
Which one will die

Unwitting prey
Is spotted below
Which one will die
Only you know

Young or old
All are fair game
Even the strong
Not just the lame

One's time has come
You stoop and dive
Taking just one
The others alive

You strike in an instant
You strike without fear
Taking whomever
Anytime of the year...

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conflict broke out ages ago
between the young and old
The young complained
“Your bones are very strong
ours just fragile and weak”
“Fine”,  old men said in unison
“Let’s wait fifty years to come.
When you reach our ages
then a good balanced fight
we shall have in fair game.”
They all waited patiently
but all old men died to dot
before the fight could begin!...

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If it's a fair game all can win.
If it's a fair game the running 
and sweating is equal
and the results can be timed.
If it's a fair game, when the clock runs down,
no miracle is asked or given, no tricks unveiled.
If it's a true game,
a zero sum invites the victor 
and consoles the loser to lockers 
and fifths of whiskey.
If it's a fair game no writing is required, 
no comma misplaced....

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Troublesome, the matters on my brain
Thoughts and emotions are hard to tame
On the edge of life and death
Not quite dead, emotional distress

Loss, worries, lonesome and pain
On the verge of going insane
A loss of love no more flame
Bills are piled, full of shame

This game of life is not a fair game
No matter how healthy you try to be
The ending of life you can never flee
Take your time never speed...

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We are the Fonzie cats, we are slick and cool.
We sneak food from restaurants, we sneak out of school.
We are all of that, the dog’s bowwow and the cat’s meow.
When you hear a ruckus, we are on the prowl!

We are Fonzie Cats, don’t wear out our name.
You can give us respect; the alley is fair game.
We sneak around at night, we are out of sight.
We are the Fonzie Cats, and we know where it’s at!...

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Robin Hood of proud Nottingham fame,
Treated affluent folk as fair game.
He’d grab hold of their cash
And then off he would dash,
But to give to the poor was his aim.

Bowman Robin, with cupid-like art
Sent a quiver through Marian’s heart.
Through the woods they would ride,
Merry men at their side;
How she wished, just for once they’d depart!


30.01.19


Limerick 3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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You are alone in the bar, I am adrift.
You are isolated by sadness
(fair game).

I need to tell you I am not him. 
I could be a better him,
but only for a while.

I want to put myself
between you and him,
as a dog will.

Vulnerability has made you desirable.
This predation is a mutual dance.
We both know you will do anything
if I listen to your story,

lick your wounds with my words
wag my tail,
just for you....

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The bar is noisy
in a half-full way.
A smoky disbursement,
muted archipelago’s
of ersatz companionship.

I am adrift
you are isolated
by a cowed sadness -

fair game.

I need to tell you
I am not him,
only a disposable shadow of him,
yet I am available
in a room somewhere,

a rented space
to practice a disgrace.

We could both be company
for this longing,
both temporarily plugged in,

but not into each other....

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We were all shocked when in Soup Creek arrived Putin
Said he came to boogie doing some Boot Scootin'
Mayor Tom said, "Fair Game!!
So, Jenna took dead aim
Her gun fired and the varmint was done, darn tootin'!

"There's no place for that devil on Boot Hill," folks cried.
Body dragged away, left in the sun till he fried
That night Soup Creek held a feast
Toasting the death of the beast
Asked how he'd died, Sheriff Koplin said, "Suicide."...

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No book of rules guidelines incomplete
Love tastes bitter and yet so sweet
Tender strong caressing and kind
Love them and leave them far behind
Emotions devotions words from the heart
Symbols of love always the start
But tears and promises accrue in a mass
Broken and tallied the list grows so vast
Haters they hate lovers they love
Beaters they beat barehanded or gloved
Broken bones heal broken hearts grow
Scars will remain above and below...

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If money didn't exist
how would the world change?
would everybody cope?
Would we come up with an exchange?

All the money men disappear
all the banks shut down
could we come up with a fair scheme?
or would everyone have a meltdown

We could find an impartial plan
where everyone is the same
where people swap like for like
it's run like a fair game

let's stop all the people
who grab and take without a care
they keep getting richer
and it's just so unfair...

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