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Luck of the Draw

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Dark Muse
, 03-11-2010 at 10:55 PM (1215 Views)
Luck of the Draw

I grew tired of yesterday's games
played, waiting to draw stakes
upon promises of tomorrow,
I finally laid down all my cards
face up with shining aces in
their linear rows (for high or low).

The Suicide King looks up
startled by the sun blazing in his eyes,
while caught frozen in that perilous
moment of time, he needed death
to confirm he was alive (yet again denied).

The Jack o' All Trades, that bloodless
dirty knave plays his knuckles
against a host of spades,
ply's his sly looks with a gleam
in his shifty-eyed sideways
speculations, breaking hearts
with a greed for the diamonds.

While surly sturdy Queens
draped in their regal finery
never believing that all this time
even she was left to dance to
another's tune, while she overseas
her stony, muted rule (but the joke is,
it all comes down to chance).
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  1. mtpspur's Avatar
    Lost me with the suicide king--I mood swing on the subject and today was a 'down' day for me. Otherwise always impressed with oyur imagination.
  2. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Thank you, as for the suicide king, the king of hearts in a deck of playing cards is dubbed "the suicide king" becasue he is posed with holding his sowrd beind his head, and it looks like he is stabbing himself or trying to cut his own head off.
  3. mtpspur's Avatar
    I appreciate that insight and I was not personally offended by your poem per se--just the word suicide has a wide range of meaning to me--both good and bad--Suicide Squad comics from DC--good----a few real life acquaintances attempting it--not so good. But I always respect your highly developed imagery and outlooks on life. Never --EVER let me even attempt to keep you from being yourself. I merely pay you what I hope is a compliment by being honest about my hangups which in themselves take nothing from your talent. Still my favorite poet here.
    Updated 03-12-2010 at 08:38 PM by mtpspur
  4. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Thank you very much, and by all means I rather encourage you and well anyone else who reads my work to be perfectly honest in thier thoughts.