Wagered Poems | Examples

She gambled

She gambled on you
She walked a bridge too far  
You didn't feel it true
It was too high a bar

She could have tried talking
That way she would've known
Behind your infatuation
Real affection hadn't grown

She thought there was a bond  
A mystical dream  
But the wizard lost his wand 
You were just a prop in the scene 

She dreamed of a fire  
You by her side
But love was a liar
Reason should guide.

She raised the stake
But gambling's a sin
with two eyes on the snake
The house has to win

Now it’s too late  
To rewrite the part  
She wagered on fate—  
Then embittered her heart 

I know we all get burnt
But I wish it hadn't gone so far
Lessons have to be learnt
Only Fate held the cards.

Live like a Jackal, Die like a dog

Hear the flames crackle
Fall on your sword  
Live like a Jackal  
Die like a dog  

The lion is weary
Hyenas dart and bite
Their laughing is eerie
He'll lose his last fight.

The vultures are circling
Eyes that see far 
Their shadow is on you
Wherever you are.

Betrayal was easy
You were attracted to strife 
You gambled with demons  
And wagered my life  

Now dust claims your legend
You can't make it whole 
May hell give you welcome  
for you the bell tolls

So hear the flames crackle  
No lion saves you now  
Live like a Jackal  
Die like a dog

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 one's mind
on what remains undefined
life a non-stop grind
of intensely out of line
dancing with wild emotion

keep the odds in scope
know when it's time to say nope
don’t ante last hope
when on that slippery slope
full of angles and false tropes

Lonely Hearts

Lonely Hearts
By Lola

We wasted time
For days and days
We let it flow
We waste away

We’re broken toys
With plastic hearts
We search the space
A place to start

Frozen in time
Our hands are held
We’re despatate kids
Our kingdoms fell

To crumble down
She never knew
What we had lost
I’ve fallen through

The sun wont rise
Nocturnal minds
While mine will sleep
Her echoes chime

The noise is loud
Redemption lost
We wagered souls
We knew the cost

So hold me close
My friend and I
Cause lonely hearts
Still beat in time

Dizzy, Dizzy

Many people have seen him 
But no one knows his name 
That easy-walking white haired man 
Whose made his claim to fame 

One day in a casino 
He wagered up a bet 
And put a hundred dollar bill 
On seven in roulette 

He won on number seven 
And he built himself a stack 
Then he went to play some cards 
And he won playing black-jack 

A drunkard fool most his life 
Now sober twenty years 
He hasn't had a single drink 
At least, that's what he swears 

He's been from place to place 
And he's made his claim to fame 
He's a solitaire aficionado man 
Still, no one knows his name 


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Thrice Denied

Searching through the forest,
chasing dreams your sleep has wagered

And finding yourself in the mindless
spatial wasteland

You play two-handed poker
with the devil of your fright

The Prince holding just one card,
as you gamble it all…

Forever promising:
“This hand will be your ticket out”

He deals chance from the bottom,
this third time to be the charm

Your hand is folded,
as the present fires upon the night

Hitting your fate dead center,
all that’s left in quicker sand

Drowning the last excuse
of your bloodless past refusals

Salvation left in full retreat
—all exits thrice denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)

Heaven Or Hell

The body borrowed,
  the soul to lend

The clock runs quickly,
 —each click portends

The choices wagered,
  the chips they fall

The sins if proffered,
 —a last downfall

Your memory staggered,
  the past in waves

The future stealing,
 —are you enslaved

The trumpet blows,
  one last farewell

The die is cast,
  —heaven or hell

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)

Migrate

One afternoon fatigued I fell asleep 
and dreamed of wings, 
since then i have been migrating.
In my gamble of life
I have wagered my happiness,
and lost my path.

As a bird bid farewell to the leaves,
falling to the Autumn breeze.
Stretching its own wings
to a new shelter beyond the seas.
will it fare well among the trees?
or the nest be pestered by snakes.

Days passing by as a fluttering butterfly. 
The wind was blowing in the wrong direction.
Heavy wings in rain, can they carry me home.
Counting the feathers from my broken wings.
By the swing of the reaper's scythe, someday
I will resign to my sweet eternal sleep in peace.

-Ravi

Thrice Denied

Searching through the forest,
  chasing dreams your sleep abandoned

And losing yourself in the mindless 
  spatial distance 

You play two handed poker
  with the devil of the night

The Prince holding only one card,
  as you gamble it all…

Forever promising: 
 “This hand will be your ticket out”

He relays his wagered truth,
  with a baton of shattered tears

But time recovers,
  the present firing upon the night

Hitting it at last dead center,
  the debris now quicksand

Drowning the last excuse
  of your bloodless past refusals

Salvation now in full retreat,
  —all exits thrice denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)

Failing To Win

Memorable moments mystified by gilted pardons,
Iridescent solicitude. 
Exclusiveness of me and you. 
Purge uncertainties born historically of mislaid intent.
Time presently misspent. 
Risked future wagered, 
Unbelievable carelessness. 
Could one ever surrender fate?
Retrospectively regretful. 
Oblivious to your affection,
Anticipated rejection,
Trecharous resurrection. 
Should have known better...
Radiance nothing more than a shimmer,
Basking in your aura of indifference, 
Admittance to thine self,
Radiance only existed in sight of mine.
Capitulation of souls into feign eternity of sentiment.
No desire to allow our beings to grow for the horizons to follow.
That was our definition.
Somewhat a fool I admit.
Unnecessary pretence.
Insolence pasted across your face.
Incessant disdain,
Safeguarded me of all my aches and my pains.
Indestructible walls, 
Higher than before,
Shield my broken heart and shattered dreams .
Buried in expired devotion.
No windows for light to shine through. 
No escape, 
No sign of a door.
Time to let the healing begin.
No where to go.
Sit tight sugar,
My lesson has been learned.
Nothing more humbling than failing to win.

Dark Visions

Some men screamed in shock, 
Some men demurred fiercely,
Some wagered lots of bucks, 
Some resented me dearly... 

But dead I'd rather be
If the truth I cannot tell
I choose to face without trepidancy
These attacking crimson bells... 

What is this truth I am haunted for
Like mad dogs in mad streets? 
That the blind see what you do not, 
A darkness so complete... 

But them who claim sight dispute, 
They claim me to be insane,
How I dare impute
Comprehension to those maimed? 

But I hold fast to my assertion,
I dare not give it up,
I closed my eyes for a session, 
And felt my belief was strong.. 

For even when they were closed, 
I could just as much see
Dark visions of hope
While you saw blood and steel.


But I do no blame you, 
You spoke what you saw, 
I spoke what I went through
With my eyes above the world...

Sugar Lips

Lazy hips/sugar lips
Dancing beneath these stars
Hazy faces/spaced out places
Still chasing the same daydreams
Dandelion fingertips/let me take a sip
The bets are wagered,the lines drawn
But we fall against the odds/take no regard

One Read Rose

The roses were like black ice, dark as night. 
They lived in a crystal vase were they 
were fed their daily juice. My heart 
shivered to see them, they were 
toxic. Yet I noticed 
there was one that was 
still red. One with 
a healthy 
pulse. Its
green
 leaves 
vibrant.
 Its cobra
sting intact. Just 
one still with a heart.
An unmistakable 
life strength. It was on this one
flower I wagered my money. 
It was this one rose I knew who would
 take the lead and all the rest would follow.



September- 21- 2014

A Farewell To Friendship

Poor Prince Hal, just wanted a pal, a friend
Someone to drink and laugh with til the end

Pawning all his hopes on white lies so far
Spending all his coins at Quickly's bar

Playing pranks on Falstaff to pass the time
Jolly as the youth, but well past his prime

Wagered then lost in the field, all bets found
Til death do they part and in friendship bound

But a  king has no need for washed up knights
Against his own will, the young prince now fights

And Hal then forsakes his friend John the Clown
As King Henry, he now takes up the crown

--
My ode to Henry IV by Shakespeare

Milk and Bananas

" Milk & Bananas "

Hmmmmmmm~ Thought Tea ??
Does this blend require lemon a'plenty?
Or shall it find lime more then amenable?
Shall such cup as is drunk from thus be dainty?
Or should we drink from whichever we find tenable?

Har! Then say so meownself does now!
Preferences bein' whot whot's they are~
Meself should find more goodly some cow~
Nay! Nay! Now not whot's bellied to some bar!
Nor could be called the ear of some sow!

'Tis white & does float bananas so well~
Yet some oft sink 'gainst bottom o'bowl~
Circles do float & crunch fer a'while~
Me parrot so finds ways to beguile!

Must be fast so says me~
'Twere me breakfast 'twould be all a'done~
Nope do it seem whot's wagered or won~
Me damn bird 'as flown now flat free!

Into that bowl a great then kersplash!
Milk & bananas all over black beak~
'Tis now meownself 'as been fox'd thus well~
Whot mess to clean shall require a week!

Ok Ok like some fat cat then purred~~
Pour & hover & wave off damn bird~
Save me some you feath'ry thief~
Lest ye be marooned on yon lonely reef!

Ne'er e'er win this battle shall I~
'Gainst such creature of silvery sky~

SeaWolf

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