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Canasta Poems - Poems about Canasta


Premium Member Ship of Fools
...Without a word we get aboard New lease of life I have to hold You didn’t tell, but it’s okay I knew the schedule for today We’ve got a lot of alco stuff And dainty food, more than enough A f......

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Categories: canasta, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Bridge Chairs
...If you have bridge chairs, playing bridge Is not their only use. Try mah jongg or canasta - Any game needs no excuse. Or set them up for extra guests So everyone can sit, Especially if there’......

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Categories: canasta, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member When I Was Ten
...Now in my time echoes I remember then my full days in a life when I was ten. We lived in a shadow much greater at the gates of Eden and its dormant crater. We’d climb its he......

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Categories: canasta, memory, youth,
Form: Rhyme
The Canasta
...The canasta We played canasta, club 7 was missing lie on the floor, but the rules where you couldn’t pick it up invented by lawmakers who had decided that one part should lose the game of power......

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Categories: canasta, break up, corruption, devotion,
Form: Blank verse
Never Wednesday
...Worship not your turtles on Tuesday Driving a convertible in traffic is inadvisable Places you at risk, in peril of bird droppings Never yawn with mouth open and head up Yawning is sacrilegious w......

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Categories: canasta, animal, day, death, games,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Anyone Game
...The Trivial Pursuits of my fun youth involved challenge more than I’m so Sorry or look for a Clue while driving freeway. We’d fend off Trouble without undue Risk...

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Categories: canasta, analogy, childhood, fun, games,
Form: Free verse
A Grandmother's Hands
...My grandmother’s hands Were many things to me. They were the glue That held our family together When anguish threatened To rip us apart. They were the tools That lovingly prepared Years o......

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Categories: canasta, grandmother, grandparents, love,
Form: Free verse
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
...No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard, saved ......

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Categories: canasta, anxiety, mental illness, ,
Form: Prose
Angels On the Wing
...Angels sleep between each snow flake floating down In slow motion, they know the pure white path by heart That dances over the humble hills transformed Into a winter dream like coat that covers wi......

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Categories: canasta, adventure, angel, appreciation, god,
Form: Free verse
The Colors of Evening
...THE COLORS OF EVENING Playing canasta with family and a shiny new deck of cards, Kings, queens, the beautiful blackness of the spades. While outside, through the window, everywhere Snow is falling......

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Categories: canasta, color,
Form: Free verse
Throw Caution To the Wind
...Through our wish through our goals through our done mean through a compliment decided by the garden minute having wards coming — minute always passing, creating A matter turns alive. Be not ......

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Categories: canasta, caregiving, faith, life, ,
Form: Epithalamium
Rapid Eye Groovement
...Rapid eye groovement dreaming of home glass coffee pot on the ring on the stove Mourning dove nest for the momma to fill nestled in the crook of the kitchen windowsill Canasta deck withering ......

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Categories: canasta, family, happiness, introspection, life,
Form: I do not know?

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