Short Gamble Poems

Short Gamble Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Gamble by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Gamble by length and keyword.


Premium Member A Wind Rolls

Calm castle of cards,
hold that hand close to your chest.
Festooned with clover
a soft wind rolls through the mote,
goosebumps raised by a gamble.
Form: Tanka


The Gamble

Today I got my first ticket ever
Have I played before? Never!
But I just took this chance
(With a five dollar expense)
And found I was off by a number!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The moment of truth

Suddenly it was a gamble...
I realized the weight of my decision.
My destiny depended on it.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member A Mastiff In Reno

A Neapolitan Mastiff in Reno
Sometimes overindulges in vino
He’ll stagger and ramble
But will never gamble
Unless he stumbles into a game of keno

1/15/22
Form: Limerick

Gamble

I wanted all things
to seem to make sense.
So we could all be happy, yes.
And I made up lies
so that they all fit nice.
And I made this world 
A pair 'a dice
© Ijm Seven  Create an image from this poem.


Irony

President Beji Caid Essebsi
The octogenarian who by a miraculous gamble in policy
Fancied he restored enduring stamina
Escalated power to preside over poor Tunisia.
Form: Clerihew

Walk, Don't Run

Walk, don't run
for running may cause you to stumble 
Life is fun 
but sometimes, life is also a gamble 
Crawl, don't slide 
it's the toiling that gives you pride
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Praying for that fine balance

Every farmer partners with weather.
A dependency that gauges his very survival.
Rain usually a welcome gift.



Wordku; 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Is it worth the gamble?

I trusted you with my heart
You let me down
Yet you try to convince me
that you deserve another chance
~ have you had a change of heart?



AP: Honorable Mention 2026

Wildlife 6

Wildlife 6
An adventurous young ocelot,
Used to gamble and smoke lots of pot,
When he crept home one night,
He got such a fright,
When his mum yelled "You're losing the plot!"
© Tim Riding  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member High Expectations

Finding love on the internet.
The world of fantasy and illusion.
Half truths lies and make-believe.
A gamble… a toss of the heart.
A crapshoot at best.



AP: 3rd place 2026

About Strip Poker

He refused to gamble as a rule although,
He heard something, that made his interest grow
It's true of one game
Strip poker's its name
The more you lose, the more you have to show!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Adventure - a Didactic Cinquain

Adventure - A Didactic Cinquain



Adventure
Freebooting, foolhardy
Fantasying, voyaging, tethering
Ever so imagined
Gamble

2/3/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Desert State


Nevada, despite what some think, 
is rather a bore:
there’s not much to do there but drink, 
gamble and whore.


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Form: Epigram

Trump Tried To Fidget

Trump Tried To Fidget

Around Trump always tried to fidget,
While he even made fun of a midget;
Took a gamble;
Destroyed preamble;
Intelligence seemed to be single digit.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Just Curious About the Good People

Do preachers take vacations?
And if they do
What do they DO?

Where do they go
to not drink
or smoke
not dance
not gamble
or bang a headboard or two.

I geuss they go to church...
Form:

Beautiful Transaction

He parlayed his handsome, Against her soft assets. He saw her and she raised him. Both folded, spent. He, a sure bet. She, a wild gamble. Together, a beautiful transaction.

Night

Night in his black character
Income fights to open the chapter
Gamble the sacrifice to welcome the adaptor
Healed reflection of the fighter
Terminated light to-way-in the night of the glitter.
Form: Acrostic

Alliteration

Gamble again and group the grain
Sense between and fight to ten
Alliteration in train chain the drawn
Figures that formed forward are found
And the play portrayed parts
Alliteration frescoes tracheae.

Black Jack Sue

Ivory cinnamon

Fine flavor

Appetizer


Saliva flourishes

Grave cravings

Taste of luck


Oral equilibrium

Evokes cream

Wax of fate


Love, lust, & passion

The ultimate sacrifice

A dangerous gamble

Blackjack
Form: Verse

Premium Member Brown Midas

He felt so cocksure
his Midas Touch was proctor.
Vegas pulled him down.
Now his Midas touch is brown.
His failure was a shocker.

NB: Inspired by, but not entered in, Edward Ibeh’s This of That, Vol 15 Contest
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Breast Cancer

It's my belief that enlarging a woman's breasts Implantation run the risk of cancer, that's my guess My wife is an example Following the gamble Got breast cancer and passed away, still hard to digest
Form: Limerick

Banana

Lets hold our bikinis
—a feast for the eyes, gym
when the monkeys giveaway
its farmland to draw nectars.

sweetness don't pretend—
I come to steal
an ecstasy,
to gamble like candles
in a terrible dark house.


J

Premium Member Mark It Hey

you are happy or are sad
life is a gamble not so bad
smile away!

all that lives, will one day go
use well what lord bestowed
do not stray!

only good deeds will count
the 'sermon on the mount'
Mark it hey!

4.6.2020

Premium Member Trails of a Chardonnay Night

Predator       OR
prey one OR the
bettOR  gamble.

The winner   BE 
awhile FREE for
now SEE a day.

Be sooner     THAN
later       MANaged
but ENDs up dead.
 
Predator  PLEASED
fricaSSEES    taste
sauCY   with wine.
Form: Than-Bauk

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