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Life is a gamble!
by JASMIN HORST E. P. SEILER → (All Poetry by JASMIN HORST E. P. SEILER)
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You live the best way you know at the moment, some times the bet pays off, other times it doesn't, but you have to play all your chips if you can, or else you're dead before your time!


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Life is a gamble!


 


Deep therein lies the spook, hidden,


Is it because, yes, my eyes pinched,


Around my hidden soul, fear smitten,


Wanting to see deep, and far, but, yet not near it inched


 


Recoil from twisted and long vines,


Leading on a winding road, to maybe,


Am I, or not, answers it declines,


Will, never I be, from imagined knowing free?


 


A Look beyond, with eyes closed tight,


Not really, wanting all there is, to see,


Unknowns cause me fright,


Who is? Or might I come to be


 


The call is there; please place your bets,


My chips are down to one,


The reapers hand, my last one gets,


And now I’m down to none


 


No more guessing now, how fast to turn the wheel,


If colours black or red,


And if I won my bet, how happy I would feel,


Some one else now holds the chips, you guessed it, I am dead!


 


 


05/02/2008


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


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 Reviews of "Life is a gamble!"
Reviewed by Jerry Engler
Reviewed on February 7, 2008
Very good poem, Jasmin, and profound thought too. You are so very correct in your thinking because some day each one of us will personally play our last chip. The trick is to be prepared for the consequences of the game...Jerry

Reviewed by Walt Hardester
Reviewed on February 6, 2008
This was funny Jasmin.

Walt

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on February 6, 2008
Hey!!! before you gonna lost your last chip...cheat!!!!!!!!!!!
Because the winner take it all.
Georg

Reviewed by Christine Alwin
Reviewed on February 5, 2008
wow,, hope I never lose my last chip,,, Great Job!
Love Christine

Reviewed by D Johnson
Reviewed on February 5, 2008
You are without a doubt, someone who makes reading fun.

Peace,
Dan

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on February 5, 2008
You write with such flair and conviction Jas! Fantastic poem,on an evocative view of life,that most of us feel at times.

luv,
et


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