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Winner Takes All Poems - Poems about Winner Takes All


The winner takes it all - a original poem inspired by the song by ABBA
I played my part, I gave my best, Yet unlike me, you did it effortless, No trophy to hold or prize to claim Just empty hands and an echo of shame. I stand beside the constant cheers for your glory, left alone in my own forlorn story. You smiled as if it were just fate, As if my...

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Categories: winner takes all, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Winner Takes All
Winner takes all He sat on the sofa feeling disgruntled, watching TV about a young woman who read a poem about hill climbing. I have climbed many hills, he said to himself, but there was always a steeper hill to conquer. Take sport, he said, women win everything you care to mention even football and ice-hockey the last...

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Categories: winner takes all, april, blessing, blue,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Winner Takes All
Apple oatmeal bars. There is only one on the shelf. Two of us reach for the last box. It is a brutal struggle. She lands on the floor. But she is still holding the box. You do not even like those oatmeal bars, My husband reminds me. I know, but now it is the principal of the thing. It is...

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Categories: winner takes all, sister,
Form: Free verse
Winner Takes the Bride
the event occurs at the call of nightfall like the Pied piper it attracts gallant souls drum beats,hooting,shouting,pep talks all the fancy one would meet in a circus ...

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Categories: winner takes all, africa, courage,
Form: Narrative
Winner Takes All
Mankind’s sorrow felt in HIS blood salvation dwelt…. on knees gamblers knelt...

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Categories: winner takes all, faith, history, inspirational, religion
Form: Senryu



The Winner Takes the Walk
I don't want to see your face Every time I close my eyes I'm tired of falling from grace When you try and waste my time I'm not listening to another word Everything you ever said was so absurd You're always there to bring me down because you were cast down to the ground Your fashion of lies and deceit Will no longer work...

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Categories: winner takes all, life, philosophy, uplifting,
Form: I do not know?

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