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Tempt Fate Poems - Poems about Tempt Fate

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...Do you have poise and grace, Joy and peace in any place? Don't hold grudges but reconnect Find home and family but refuse a "sect." Idealist captures just a small piece But love shares it and f......

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Categories: tempt fate, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Partial recognition
...Each realm we visit is a dream template, wherein our essence is cloaked in a form, that memory erased, we may tempt fate, our lifeline at all times, touch of love warm. Mistaken we’re only this b......

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Categories: tempt fate, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member The Life and Times of a 'Pro Jock'
... His spine curves right, then left one shoulder lower than another A hitch and a wobble in his gait couple shots of whiskey tempt fate A caddy, he calls himself a ‘pro ......

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Categories: tempt fate, destiny, drink, golf, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member True Confessions - Post-Debate
... After the debate, Joe didn’t feel great He realized he’d better not tempt fate I quit the race, he said Then he scratched his old head Jill will replace me, she hardly can wa......

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Categories: tempt fate, fate, leadership, moving on,
Form: Limerick
Ourselves and our hearts
...We love all that death touches And so maybe we love in halves We give and yet hold back Because when we hurt We fear the ash, our fire might become The air that will scatter it The wind sw......

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Categories: tempt fate, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Why Tempt Fate
...courting danger and driven to foolish heights for some genetics enable calculated risks proving that dop......

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Categories: tempt fate, fate,
Form: Suzette Prime
Touch of Death
...We love all that death touches And so maybe we love in halves We give and yet hold back Because when we hurt We fear the ash, our fire might become The air that will scatter it The wind sw......

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Categories: tempt fate, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freaking Bald
...I glanced at her nails saw fins and scales Reached for her hair Hmm. Nothing there Took her right hand felt just like sand Looked at her face Is she from outer space Next time......

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Categories: tempt fate, absence, giggle, hair, woman,
Form: Couplet
Chicken Hero Kaalnek
...I In a land of crime, pets too are killed A goose was struck by an upset Ouma I saw it in a fenced yard, life bleeding ... It came close to home, with Kuiken II Kuiken is Afrikaans for baby c......

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Categories: tempt fate, animal, cat, courage, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Fear the Closed Door
...Do not tempt death by opening its door, for in its time it will find you. ~ by poet What lies behind that door? ......

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Categories: tempt fate, death,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member To Possess Your Heart
...Careful what you wish for Wise advice wasted on fools. I recognize the danger signs Yet rush in most willingly. If only I’d be satisfied In this blissful state of longing. What’s sweet fa......

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Categories: tempt fate, fear, heart, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aftermath
...In the aftermath of battle, One needs to find a place Where one feels safe enough To lay down one’s weapons And let them tarnish and rust And gather dust, at least until The ink has dried o......

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Categories: tempt fate, allegory, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Samson
...Joyful music filled the village when mother’s barren womb gave birth. Born to end Philistine pillage, and fill sad, anxious hearts with mirth. No wine or product of the vine, should pass you......

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Categories: tempt fate, betrayal, conflict, dark, passion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Our Wild Life Beckons
...The mighty roar of the King of the Bush at the crack of dawn, Its majestic sound, being the first Thing you hear, as you yawn, And the laugh of the sly hunch backed Hyena, as it creeps, slouched......

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Categories: tempt fate, animal,
Form: Free verse
Prose Poems
...Prose Poems Something by Michael R. Burch Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immea......

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Categories: tempt fate, animal, child, childhood, children,
Form: Prose

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