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:
wager, fate, loss, lost, perspective,
Form: Tanka
Wagering As Pascal
I
Does morality need some religion?
Does humanity need Creator, Creation?
If I'm good even when I'm bad
Morality and religion we must have
As with government, as with queens, king -
Humans need umpires in everything
II
If Jesus makes me a better being
Than I was as a Hindu, even Unbelieving
Where's the harm, if I do as Facebook
Created by Zuckerberg; WA; Telegram
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Categories:
wager, analogy, bible, community, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Pascal's Wager
There’s nothing objective about spirit,
in that lies its strength and its truth
Unable to measure, only to feel,
its critics profane and uncouth
Science declares it the enemy,
its formulas explaining away
Why love has no bearing and within it we’re lost
—God’s execution unstayed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
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Categories:
wager, love,
Form: Rhyme
Bring On the Rejection Slips and Or Lost Wager
Bring on the rejection slips and/or lost wager
Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt poor offspring privileged as prodigal son
pockets bursting with legal tender,
where just yesterday I had none.
All polite declinations
strung together would circle...
(fill in the blank)
matter of fact, I just got a slew of them
today June 9th,
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Categories:
wager, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Wages of Sin
Heavy the weight of evil's darkened blight.
In dread one breaks heart's vast moral compass.
Sombre regret lays seige upon my brow.
Bewitched my mind is rampant by false truths.
For vanity lays waste to vanity.
Mind's conflict changes like the river tide.
Time's fleeting torment yet today unspent.
Thoughts blossom, wilt, die, like a
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Categories:
wager, betrayal, depression, desire, sin,
Form: Blank verse
Alchemy
Gleaming wager’s chart spells filmy odds
And tip triers to toss wee mites for more;
To forfeit modicums of ground for vaster
Acres wider than the fabled Midas shore.
No curse greater than lost chances fair
Baked and gilded to enchant and deke,
Verily sure-win swoops altered mid air;
Glittering talismans foiled in their peak!
Each day under Fortune’s ogling
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Categories:
wager, allegory, allusion, anxiety, hope,
Form: Ballad
The Wager
A friendly wager between the two
A shake of hands and it was through
God and the Devil struck a deal
How many souls could they steal
subjects of a sinister bet
Humans as the main event
Our fate a twisted competition
boredom replaced by a bad decision
Who would win the most souls
And bragging rights and gold medals
A
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Categories:
wager, poems,
Form: Prose
A Huge Wager
My blind
Loyalty never changes
I'll give the
Lembombo mountains away
And prove that true love exists
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Categories:
wager, africa,
Form: Tanka
Pascal's Wager
So tell me pilgrim what you feel
Do you believe your end is real,
That on this plane your looming death
Is simple as a lapse of breath?
Perhaps Pascal might give you pause
If you see worth in earthly laws.
Consider how his logic flows
And then reflect on what man knows!
If God is real or God is
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Categories:
wager, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Wager With Me
Would you care to flirt with something volitile?
I know a fire that burns - hot and melting
In vivid undulating ripples of heat
That will steal the youth from your skin
And dry the tears hidden in your eyes...
And you will never even know you are burning.
How can you know the truth of it, pretty princess,
When defeated Nations
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Categories:
wager, death, war, care, fire,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Free Cee I Will Wager There Are Thousands of You Who Feel the Same
WHEN FOREVER BECOMES NEVER
I NEVER LOOKED HER EYE TO EYE
YET I FEEL HER HAND TOUCHING MINE
HER GOODBYE NEVER MADE ME CRY
BUT SHE STILL SENDS SHIVERS UP MY SPINE
WE NEVER DANCED LIKE TWO LOVERS DO
BUT I FEEL AS THOUGH I'M LEADING HER FEET
SHE NEVER MADE MY LIFE FEEL BRAND NEW
STILL WE WILL NEVER EVER COME TO
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Categories:
wager, angst, me, love, me,
Form: Quatrain
A Wager
If she,
a wager
odds are mine
a chance worthy bet
that love
may not be
life’s regret
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Categories:
wager, life, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?