Up The Ante Poems | Examples


Chemistry

Energy heats a pen for me and gives chemistry /
There’s no alternative to emit a thermal word filled migration flurry /
My nation bet against the worker bee buzzing up the ante on the monster keeper /
Icy for any eatery’s departure to slip blame onto a customer /
I'll be the infamous cook while you'll be the go get us waitress /
You’re in danger as I’m on point and you’re just pointless /
You can't step to how he spits I’m on unknown planets /
You’re precision just misses compared to my bliss nonetheless I’m fortuitous when I caress where you’d care less /
I'll take your vocals and be the vocalist or take your confidence and turn you to a pessimist off the guest list

Premium Member Happiness Prances

Mammoth extinction
Mammoth in size
Size matters
Size me up
Up the pole
Up the ante
Ante your decision
Ante it for me
Me oh my
Me oh May
May you laugh
May you be
Be yourself
Be wonderful
Wonderful feeling
Wonderful day
Day light savings
Day is bright
Bring minds think
Bright minds feel
Feel your groove
Feel your truth
Truth inspires
Truth saturates you
You are colossus
You are wonderful
Wonderful sight
Wonderful welcome
Welcome new ideas
Welcome your mind
Mind expresses your soul
Mind primes your imagination
Imagination creates 
Imagination dazzles
Dazzles your admirers
Dazzles others 
Others are amazed
Others are afraid
Afraid of quirkiness
Afraid of creativity
Creativity laughs
Creativity frees 
Frees your soul
Frees you
You enjoy others
You love your life
Life twirls
Life prances
Prances in happiness
Happiness
Prances


From the Outside

Gritting my teeth
Frustration supersedes
Yet i'll be the last man standing
So many knock outs
So many failures
A Lot of mistakes
Biting the dust many times
Falling short
No! Not any more
I am going to up the ante
From the outside you saw a loser
From the inside 
come and meet the winner
I am going for gold
Hitting the bullseye
Just in time for dinner
Watch me smile
It ain't getting any dimmer
Watch me glow 
As my winnings grow
From the outside
You saw me losing 
Now out of your ears
My winnings is oozing
You stopped hearing the roar of delight
It was deafening!

Love Will Bridge the Gap

Love will keep me going
Love will keep me sane
Love will do whatever it can do
For a tortured brain
Love will up the ante
Love will bridge the gap
Love will take responsibility –
Love will take the rap 

If I ever wronged you, 
Well you know I did not mean it
If I’ve hid a secret from you,
I probably haven’t seen it

Our lives can look like prisons
With the jailors and the keys
Love will break these shackles
And send me to my knees

Love will keep me going
Love will keep me sane
Love will do whatever it can
To ease a tortured brain
Love will up the ante
Love will bridge the gap
Love will take responsibility –
Love will take the rap 

In the eyes of strangers,
We claw and we fight to survive
Worrying about the outcome
Too busy to feel alive

How do we keep on floating
If not for that raft called love?
It’s like a solemn, holy messenger
On a mission from above

Love will keep us going
Love will keep us sane
Love will do whatever it can to
Rescue a tortured brain
Love will up the ante
Love will bridge the gap
Love will take responsibility – 
Love will take the rap

Deck of Love

You say that you love me
But I love you more
You may up the ante
But I'm keeping the score

I don't doubt what you feel 
Inside of yourself
Like a flush full of hearts
You're the hand I've been dealt

I don't say it to sound
As though I downplay your love
But since I've met you
You're like some kind of drug

Or a spell that's been cast
I can't look away
I can't find a reason
Try as I may

My pulse beating faster 
Since you've entered my mind
My heads in the clouds
All of the time

I'm afflicted, addicted
I can't pull away
You're the only known fix
To start out my day

So should you claim you love me more
Please don't be too quick to boast
Since meeting you there's been no doubt
I will always love you most


If It Isn'T Broken

New administrators,
Often shooting in the dark,
Think (quite falsely) they must shake things up
So they can make their mark.

Thus they challenge well-run programs,
Up the ante, change the rules
And when bedlam follows, sure enough,
They look, to us, like fools.

In the meantime, though, we suffer,
For their efforts make things worse;
As they strut and flaunt their power,
We can only grouse or curse.

Sometimes justice will prevail
And their ideas will all be nixed,
Proving if it isn’t broken,
There’s no need to get it fixed.

Premium Member A Twenty Questioned Lowlife

Why the twenty question game when you come home?
Was you out with friends or with a seducer of your own?

Question after question spill from my mouth..
Answers upon answers, you are still a louse!

Twenty questions doesn’t do this game justice.
Up the ante to forty, let me get my check list.

You are the quintessential best I have ever tested.
Guess what however, you have been busted!

Get your gear and  get out of my life.
You had your chance you’re nothing but, lowlife

Premium Member Worked Up Lies

Mind tormented with stresses of the day.
Misled truths and thoughts in disarray.

A purveyor of lies, they are to me.
Unfairly treated, their so-called bribery.

Against a wall, repeatedly my head pounds.
Nothing is played out right, revenge on rebound.

Just let me go to collect my dignity.
Your fibs just keep adding up the ante.

I am spent and somber, from your wrong dealings.
Please just let me go from your mental beatings.

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