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Stakes Poems - Poems about Stakes


Premium Member High Stakes
High-stakes impression, style is never casual. All in, fresh laundry....

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Categories: stakes, business, emotions, fashion,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Driving Stakes
Did you bear contentment, leave a fragile footprint or were you a swine rooting pristine into mud what will they say as your bones blow away did you paint stars or did you spill blood. Were you a gold giver or impish tin taker Is the character granite or wove from coal flake Did your knead love or did you...

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Categories: stakes, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member High Stakes
Trippy hippie likes risky frisky. Doing gambles of one's living....

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Categories: stakes, addiction, allusion, crazy, drug,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member The Stakes
losing at some game produces very little shame no one else to blame pride quite easy to reclaim nothing ventured nothing gained big or little stakes wagers may keep minds awake or make weak souls shake don't bet what shouldn't be lost keep in mind that final cost losing in a war involves relatively more lost for evermore may be people you adore wagered in deadly gore bet all of...

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Categories: stakes, fate, loss, lost, perspective,
Form: Tanka
Raising the Stakes
In troubled times, when people join, United in resistance, They share a common hope to find A peaceful coexistence. Perhaps they march or chant or sing While others watch and wonder If change can be the end result Of anger’s zeal and thunder. Or will the protests and the pleas Fade back to what we’re used to Before our phones replaced the need For any network’s...

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Categories: stakes, change,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Inheritable Stakes
the worse it gets, it gets “worser” a better death is a misnomer those greedy fingers and trespassing eyes the passing of a plate of lies the only thing that’s shared — a shovel that heaps dirt over the “loved one’s” hurt 7/26/2018...

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Categories: stakes, betrayal, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member As Stakes Raise Higher
Stakes Root Deeper When the stakes are life on Earth, all else is a diversion. Susan Murphy Roshi Here we have co-invested stakes nondualing claims of sacred and secular health causes, and disinvested destroying diversions, perversions, distortions, dismay, retributions. Susan Murphy is a Zen teacher, so diversions from shared stakes are Empty LeftBrain Egos, like sound and sight and feeling of one hand clapping, slapping away life's co-investing stakes, invitations, resources...

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Categories: stakes, caregiving, earth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
Stakes
will you anti your stake when I bring this all up or will you be surprised that it isn't enough will you chuck these past months thinking I gave what I had or will you work harder and take one more stab...

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Categories: stakes, introspection, love
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things