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Up The Ante
Up The Ante Poems - Poems about Up The Ante
::Limited edition::
...I’m a limited edition, when all is said and done Nothing special, only unique in a maze of humdrum Kill spiders for a pastime, coz I hate their beady eyes Watching me try to sleep, as they para......
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David Kavanagh
Categories:
up the ante,
confusion, i am, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
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 keepe......
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Kyle Gee
Categories:
up the ante,
analogy, creation, education, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
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 ......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
up the ante,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Blitz
Rodeo and Juliet
...On the spur of the moment forecast by eternal script in the stars The Bard strummed his guitar and sung a ballade from heart’s lute Wild horses would not keep him away from her as he unbridled......
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Kai Michael Neumann
Categories:
up the ante,
happiness,
Form:
Free verse
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 a......
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Phatt Matt
Categories:
up the ante,
adventure, character, courage, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Mad Anthony's Masterstroke, Part I
...In May of seventeen seventy-nine Henry Clinton was having a hard time, so tired of the rebels still fighting, had to somehow get Gorge Washington out of the looming Hudson Highlands, and then fo......
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David Welch
Categories:
up the ante,
america, conflict, courage, hero,
Form:
Epic
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 tak......
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Keith Dovoric
Categories:
up the ante,
introspection, love, metaphor, prison,
Form:
Lyric
One Out of Six
... Who among you is brave enough (or dumb enough) to take the challenge Bet your life to beat the odds ... One out of six Load the chamber with one bullet, spin the cylinder, ......
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
Categories:
up the ante,
change, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Epic
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 be......
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M.P. Shaudd
Categories:
up the ante,
humor, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
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 rule......
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Ilene Bauer
Categories:
up the ante,
people, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Ban Backwards North Carolina: Psa
...BAN BACKWARDS NORTH CAROLINA (PSA) deep in the belly of the empire where “fights between cats and dogs are prohibited,” “women must be covered in AT LEAST 16 yards of cloth at all times,” “bingo gam......
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Andrew Delapruch
Categories:
up the ante,
life, rights, together, ,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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©
Erin Werner
Categories:
up the ante,
angst,
Form:
Light Verse
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 h......
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Erin Werner
Categories:
up the ante,
angstme,
Form:
Rhyme