CHASING ITA Poem by Phil Robertsmy take on gamblers
Jokers and knaves are wild cards
As ever they were What fateful houses these make Breath-held balancing Precarious shelters Gamblers and wanderers With tumbleweed roots Clinging air instead of earth The stuff of fools and stars And someone's days and years Are made only of this This thrilling despair Jokers and knaves and kings and queens And some of subtler meaning Mean nothing but paper Numbers and trembles Dry-mouthed mumbles Prayers to a ruthless god With no reason to pity fools And a dark love of sacrifice Yet still desperate belief Huddled behind swollen eyes Contradicts every probable outcome And falls and spins By Phil Roberts © 2015 Phil Roberts |
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Added on August 18, 2015 Last Updated on August 18, 2015 AuthorPhil Robertsmacclesfield, north-west, United KingdomAboutI'm from the north-west of England where the rain lives. I am retired and a grandfather to many. I've led an "interesting" life, i suppose you could say, with lots of laughter and a few tears, like mo.. more..Writing
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