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ggrn3
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0 posted 2000-08-22 04:55 PM


A Game Of Chance...(response to Local Rebels challenge)
By
Garfield

Love is a gamble
Like a game of Roulette
Shall one take the gamble
Or will this game, they regret.

What shall one ante up
Bonds, money, silver, or gold
Shall one open up their heart
And let hands grasp at their soul.

Love is a game of dice
Containing a lot of despire, and despised
One often gets bit by the serpant
If a role comes up snake eyes.

Poker is more the game
That one should elect to play
The face of 13 cards displays hearts
39 others contain clubs, diamonds, & spades.

So ante up your heart
Put your emotions on the table
You may win at this game of cards
If you believe love conquers all; your able...

        TO WIN THIS GAME OF CHANCE



Garfield

© Copyright 2000 Garfield Green III - All Rights Reserved
doreen peri
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1 posted 2000-08-22 06:32 PM


yep, sometimes it's a game! You did a great job meeting and exceeding the challenge presented... still working on mine...  

enjoyed the read... nicely done!

~ all you can really ever expect out of life is a good apology and some decent poetry ~

Meadowmuse
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2 posted 2000-08-22 06:52 PM


Garfield, I like your poetic outlook on the risks of love ... a gamble, to be sure.

~ Claire

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau


ggrn3
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3 posted 2000-08-22 06:58 PM


Doreen & Claire
  Thanks for reading. Your comments are always appreciated.
Again, thanks so much.

Garfield

catalinamoon
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4 posted 2000-08-22 07:38 PM


So true, all of it, and well said.
catalinamoon

Local Rebel
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5 posted 2000-08-22 10:00 PM


thanks for joining the game...

well done..

but I think doreen has all our clothes.. lol

Kethry
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Victoria Australia
6 posted 2000-08-23 08:14 AM


Chancy outcome on this, but it's better to have played and won than never have played at all.
Be well
Kethry.

"It is the image in the mind that links us to lost treasures;
but it is the loss that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers weaves the garland."-

juliet_2u
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7 posted 2000-08-23 09:26 AM


And what a gamble it can be. Loved this.
Juls

EagleOne
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8 posted 2000-08-23 09:40 AM


It can certainly be a game with high stakes!

"The heart and soul have no illusion of boundries when friendship is the quest"
~ My Angel.

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
9 posted 2000-08-23 09:44 AM


parlays right up there with the best...good job!
poetFemmeFatale
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10 posted 2000-08-23 10:37 AM


Hello!  I'm an old-timer here who has been gone for a while, and this is the first piece of yours I've read!  You have some really great lines in this!  *sigh*  I don't know anything about gambling though - maybe that's why I'm so darn cautious in love...Maybe someone in here can teach me how to play, and then I'll be more BRAVE in the game of love too!  LOL  Thanks for meeting this challenge with such a great piece!  Enjoyed it much!
Paula Finn
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missouri
11 posted 2000-08-23 10:40 AM


Yes love is a gamble...but aint it a fun fun ride?
Sudhir Iyer
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12 posted 2000-08-23 10:42 AM


Very well done... excellent work with the challenge...

regards to you Garfield,
Sudhir

ggrn3
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13 posted 2000-08-23 10:46 AM


Catalinamoon, Local Rebel, Kethry, Juliet, Eagle One, Sunshine, & poetfemmefatale:

  Thank you all for the kind responses.  All the poems posted for Rebel's challenge have been excellent, but from all that I have read thus far, Sunshine is playing the winning hand.  Sunshine, I'm playing a bluff when it comes to yours.
Again, thanks everyone.

Garfield

ggrn3
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14 posted 2000-08-23 10:49 AM


Thanks Sudhir
  I was just about to read yours. I'm sure you have dealt up a winning hand.  
Thanks for the compliment.

Garfield

jwesley
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since 2000-04-30
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Spring, Texas
15 posted 2000-08-23 12:07 PM


Well done, my friend...indeed!

"If you believe love conquers all; your able... TO WIN THIS GAME OF CHANCE..."  well and truly said.

jwesley

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