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A game of dice with mental clouds - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

The mice play their games of croquet - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"

The problem of a street game - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

A game played with cool hands and slim fingers - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Play a game of dead dolls - Cecil Bodker "Fury's Field" transl. by Nadia Christensen

Far above the antics of such childlike games - Bruce Boston "Marble People"

The duplicity of a continued numbers game - Paul Cameron Brown "The Rake's Progress"

Playing games with sunlight - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

A game played by chemicals - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

A game played by myth - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Never dealer was fair, never game on the square - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"

Proud of the skill with which you play this game - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Controlled burns and bone games and berries - Laura Da' "Bad Wolf"

a game of telephone that first rang across the ocean - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

A game of approximation - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Our game in pleasant fashion ends - Catherine Grant Furley "Quits!" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.20-v.I, 17 May 1884]

Or we can play the forgetting game - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

But ever the terrible game goes on - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

To rob the tigress of her game - John Gay "Fable I: Lion, Tiger, and Traveller" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Fools are the game which knaves pursue - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

An endless game of musical chairs - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Game of time and money - Jim Harrison "Limb Dancers"

Impotent glimpses of the Game displayed - Oliver Herford "The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten"

in the interval between world and game - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

As we played some deadly game for blind gods - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

A tower in the tarnished game - J. Patrick Lewis "The Slugger"

In political games of specters' peek-a-boo - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But space was still an open-ended game - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

No time to start a new game - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Can you win a game you've played alone? - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

The game the wind plays - George Meredith "The Orchard and the Heath"

Playing a guessing game with their gaze - Joanne Merriam "The Bather"

That play at golden games - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "November Eleventh"

Ash and smoke will play fire games - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

Rearranging them like a shell game - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

The game between death and existence - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Science, art, and parlor games - Dorothy Parker "Neither Bloody Nor Bowed"

Easy games for a spirit - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

High with the fate of game - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

If the game isn't going the way she'd like - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Creed"

Our intricate losing game - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Pig whispers and games of chance - Karen A. Romanko "Bosch in Hollywood"

Using the game to create the essential essence - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Likes only abandoned games - Charles Simic "Matches"

A game of rooks & bishops on an expanding board - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

Turns to the last game of all - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"

Freely concede the game - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Safe from this game of hide-and-seek - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"

Played at glory's idle game - Henry van Dyke "The Vain King"

Mirthfullest mate of all my moral games - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

The game your mind plays in dreams - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love"

In a game I kept agreeing to play - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"



Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the endgame of her days - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"


Hide-and-seek of gamesome and divine - Alice Meynell "To Tintoretto in Venice"


The wood must make the gamester's losses good - John Gay "Fable LXII: Pan and Fortune" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Doomward the broken gamesters' ranks - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of One-and-Twenty"

Vanish like a gamester's vow - Francis Neilson "The Void"


In shell-game catastrophe - Mary Jo Bang "N as in Nevermore"


still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"


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