Short Numbers Game Poems

Help!

Cinquain
Poetic pain
Form defying function
Muse depressing numbers game.
Help!...

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Poetry contests are clearly a numbers game.
Don’t take them seriously; it will only maim.
Enter eighty and hope to win three.
This philosophy works for me....

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some say is 6six6

deep in the Vatican

engraved on a door

of the inner sanctum

but who knows if

the pope is fallible

or if this numbers game

is propaganda

or spin on some

other agenda...

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Bones 
Protruding 
Like they never have before
Questions
Countered by camouflage 
And false filling
I can only count to a thousand
And you’re counting on me
But I’m trapped
And truthfully,
I don’t intend to flee
It’s a numbers game
And I’ll calculate my way to the carcass...

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I'll start,you follow.

I one the lump of mud,
I two the lump of mud,
I three the lump of mud,
I four the lump of mud,
I five the lump of mud,
I six the lump of mud,
I seven the lump of mud,
I eight the lump of mud,
You ate the lump of mud ?
That must have tasted horrible....

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Seagulls sit on rusting capstans
For the fleet to leave to sea,
Waiting for the missing helmsman
If it was meant to be.

Sounds of summer out of reach,
From anglers by the sea
No more pebbles on the beach
If it was meant to be.

For love is just a numbers game
Where life is a tax we levy
Until with hope we set aflame
As it is meant to be....

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The ease with which we catch a cold,
Or hold, or up, or ball;
A numbers game in nature that,
Bar none, affects us all.

Gravity and friction
Games that everyone can play.
No need for predilection,
Don’t let rules get in the way.

Sit back and close your eyes
As Mama Nature calls the roll,
And contemplate the searing
Mathematics of the Soul....

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***Sedoka: syllabically, 577577, an unrhyming single verse with no breaks or pauses

Sudoku, A Numbers Game

Preset numbers are
placed in a nine by nine frame
containing nine three by three 
cubes and each three by
three cubes and each column and
each row numbers one through nine

***Apps obtainable online
WARNING: Can be addictive

2020 September 27...

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Listen to poem:

The Lonely Numbers Game
David J Walker

One has paper 	
		One has pen
One has thoughts of what the color
Of love might have been 

One is the mother
		The other a sister
Another a brother
But where is the father
In this hungry game

One is unknown 
		One without a name
One remembers every day though
One is just like the other  and
		All are the Ones are  
just the same

One is forever 
Without another 
The first among  
The lonely ones 
In this lonely numbers game...

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