Short Betting Poems

Religion is betting your life that there is a God...

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the boss has a stooge
we give him incorrect facts
betting on his speed...

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we stopped betting them

(and i'm not talking about in a drunken rage.but when the deserve it a good betting.)...

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Just a nine
is all I need.
I have greed. 
That will be fine.
I don't know
what's coming next.
I'm only betting to win!
...

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I talk on the phone while I’m letting
Leaving a treat in the toilet, I’m setting
It’s not quite fair
Poo’s in the air
The other person doesn’t know, I’m betting

Russell Sivey...

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somewhat a surprise
comfort  now my weary eye's
make me forget time

eye's across the room
come into my hungry view
my eye's are feasting

eye's follow their prey
betting their chances what may
devour love one day...

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Vegas
betting
playing
blackjack

i've got
an ace
of spades
and a jack

of spades
but say 
actually
plead

hit me
the dealer does
and yet another
spade it is a four

i walk away
smiling
i wanted
to see

twenty-five...

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Las Vegas' rushed pace was upsetting,
Which left a gambler dazed and sweating,
At the fast evening’s end
Met he a posh girlfriend...
They wed quickly through drive-in betting!



8/5/2019
State Limerick Contest of Kevin Shaw...

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Just sitting has become a fashion and the order of the day of life schooling to shopping,leisure to relaxing,chatting to betting,mailing to billing whatever once standing working sitting on a desk like at schools on line in searching the offline....

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I wonder if Betty was grandmother to Norman
Both being creative and somewhat prolific
Not knowing either well, I can’t be specific
I’m betting they both own a George Foreman. 

Written October 15, 2022

N/T Norman Crocker...

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Just when the quick peruse
Turns obtuse
Thereby roundly refused
That noose for an excuse

We made the day quake with paper
Gracious allowance
By overwriting the undercurrent
Betting down for stamps in the sky

The commander brands his mule
Make the work horse a tuning fork
And finance a forgotten tomb
The evidence of genealogy...

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Gambling, he lost it all
Everything gone; betting was not his tour de force
Mind appall

No one's hero
There was anger but no remorse
Zero

Assets
lost on a horse
Debts

Gambling, he lost it all
There was anger but no remorse
Debts



April 9, 2022
Let's Minichu on Zero Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani...

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If I remember, I will not forget,
To put up my umbrella when it's  wet.

Splashing in a puddle, is a hoot.
Until that pesky rain, fills my gum boot.

Betting on a race, don't bet on the snail,
Don't tie a knot in a guinea pig’s tail.

Wet or dry , it’s fun being a chicken,
Don't want to be told I'm finger licken.....

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I fell to see the fairness indeed
Of a moment we live just to age and forget
When there is nothing less unless we give our best
We mostly remember inept 

I want to know why we can't see ourselves grow
 But age will dog us to an instant regret
But time does not flinch at the moment's stench 
And hope the best has not passed us by yet...

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He is a bookies monkey,
A blackjack Joe,
A casino junkie,
A slot machine Moe,

He is a roulette Roger,
A double down Dave,
A betting shop lodger,
A gambling slave,

He is a baccarat Billy,
A poker sharp Pete,
A wily old Willie,
A Charlie cheat,

He is a high stakes Harry,
A dog track Dan,
A lotto Larry,
He is the gambling man...

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Ah..O God..
How I ended up by
Betting for sale my heart..
At a station no encircle only
But snake and 'two swallowed pebble '
Jumping in my chest as a fish 
, 
Ah..O God..
I became a sand, 
a small finger to squirrel
And.. face of flames to comets
Sharpen her Blade on my neck
, 
Ah.. O God..
How I ended up betting
To sell my grave..? !...

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This is not the words of anesha,this is her daughter zakhyrah cooper 10year old.

Money,Money,Money you make fools of me,
using you like betting on games,can't find the
way cause I can't consertrate.Your greenish
and expensive ways don't mean a thing,not
the sweetest or thickness of you but your
badness of all mineless mess you cause
for stress....

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From the childhood days
playing monopoly games....
life is a betting

on the board of life
a dice is ever rolling....
no fuel shortage

fuel is the lust
only exhausts with the death....
the game of dice ends 





© kashinath karmakar (27th May,2011)

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By:kashinath karmakar

Contest:Monopoly The Game Of Life...

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Whoever said 
That life is a bet?
You roll the dice hard
I shuffle the cards
With no way of knowing 
What will be showing
Some take the first hand
Others wait, pay the band
I’m betting on you
You call your hand too
Our hearts they are matching 
Other suits all are lacking 
You say “oh that’s ducky”
But I know we’re lucky

Written- 11/19/2020...

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Love Loves it when,
Romance is in the air,
And we agree to share.

Love Loves it when,
Children come first,
And we wait to quench our thirst.

Love Loves it when,
Welcome mats,
Are as common as old hats.

Love loves it when,
Flowers shops,
Outnumber betting shops.

Love Loves it,
When hate stays outside the gate,
And love songs propagate....

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I want to fly high
Fly up to the sky
I want to defy
People who say I can’t fly

Zoom! Away I go
To the blue place I know
Shining so bright
With the sun as my light

Flying frees me from fretting
Soaring straight into the sky
My friends are betting
How high I’ll fly

They don’t know
How high I’ll go

I will dream though
That I can let go
And fly...

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Children will come
again asking “why?”
What will we say?
Should we even try?
I’m betting most people
won’t get too far
I’m just not okay with
“That’s just who we are.”

Especially since
we have freedom to choose
all we might gain
all we could lose
Let us not use our choices
to take theirs away
they’ll be asking, “but why?”
for the rest of our days....

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glorifying days gone by
meanwhile wasting time
i’ve got nothing more than an alibi
to make sense of this paradigm

i’m betting on a future paradise
where starry moonlit nights entice
and sunshine saves the day
while guileless children play



Submitted on April 6, 2025 for contest STEVIE WONDER sponsored by KAREN JONES  (Pastime Paradise) -  RANKED 2ND...

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AUTUMN  :  COMPULSIVE   GAMBLER


Waste leaves no  gain
Only   loser-game  pain. 
Autumn  squanderer,  late season gambler,
Compulsive,  forced  spender,
Staking  every  last  gold penny.
Feels he can afford the luxury,
Throws  his  yellow banknotes  to the floor  
In  dramatic confidence gesture,
Betting that winter won’t come yet.

He will lose the bet....

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    From side to side
     beady eyes dart
    just a-playin’ the game
     horse before cart

    betting with wild abandon
     without a leg to stand on…
    lips drawn, tightly sealed
     face a mask, nothing revealed          

    shifty eyes, swivel seat
     shifting sands of time
    cards flutter up, then down
     ~ sifting fortune's meltdown
...

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