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Wagered Poems - Poems about Wagered

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: wagered, analogy, break up, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
...Brains and guts orbit the soul— that polar star searing in the marrow of being. I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution march......

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Categories: wagered, courage, destiny, history, imagery,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium Member 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 a......

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Categories: wagered, abuse, anger, betrayal, dog,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Graveyard
...Time's flowing tributary; the future changes the past. Our burial cortege concludes its course at the graveyard. Falling leaves collapse, crafting new fates; feel the weight of dust. S......

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Categories: wagered, allusion, anger, bereavement, death,
Form: Rhyme
Wayward Wanderer
... Why does my soul not conform to the social standards that society and family set before me? As if I was written as a chapter of a different book and thrown amongst the scoffers. Or am I just a ......

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Categories: wagered, conflict, corruption, courage, culture,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: wagered, fate, loss, lost, perspective,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Fires, Unfaithful
...heaven ... is my prison ... that dreamy, white tangle of percale where your limbs and mine weave sweaty magic - a moon-daubed canvas of pyretic passion, public ... no shut-door, drawn......

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Categories: wagered, betrayal, lust, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
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 hand......

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Categories: wagered, absence, abuse, addiction, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: wagered, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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 Prin......

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Categories: wagered, fate,
Form: Free verse
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 sta......

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Categories: wagered, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
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 th......

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Categories: wagered, farewell, fate, fear, moving
Form: Free verse
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 Pr......

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Categories: wagered, perspective,
Form: Free verse
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 fut......

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Categories: wagered, break up,
Form: I do not know?
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 tr......

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Categories: wagered, allegory, confidence, visionary,
Form: Verse

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