Best Chequered Poems

The Dilettante Diaries: “Freshwater”



This is how it begins
Opposite side of the chequered board
Black and White, a game to win
The 50 Move Rule flirts consequences
of a...

Read more of this work...

On a Sunday in the evening
The old barn becomes a hall
Social place where every weekend
The town folk go for a ball.
 
The inside is decorated...

Read more of this work...

Confidently he played
Cat and mouse across the
Chequered board of her heart,
Cheating behind her back.
Caught in the act, he lay
Cowering in defeat:
Checkmate...the final move.

---------------------------
Contest: Pleiades -...

Read more of this work...

Beautiful, frivolous queen bided her time. 
The castle stood tall and strong.
Silence reigned.  No one dared to speak.
Below the enemy had gathered ready for...

Read more of this work...

I picked up some words,
From an over heaped pile,
Words which impressed me most.
Put them carefully onto a blank paper,
Like a practiced player placing,
Rooks and pawns...

Read more of this work...

This universe is a chequered board
Where facts are sacrificed as pawns
To defend ideas antediluvian.

Our horizon is constantly receding
Knowledge and ignorance clash
Ending in a stalemate....

Read more of this work...

"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cerebellum with...

Read more of this work...

On a Sunday in the evening
The old barn becomes a hall
Social place where every weekend
The town folk go for a ball.

The inside is decorated ...

Read more of this work...

"The Strict Machine"




Take a note 
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like 
a Magpie's beak 
a Silent Epiphany
One, 
Two and
Three
a Silent Jackhammer...

Read more of this work...

Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their...

Read more of this work...

Le Problème avec des Blancs – Translation of Jim Everett’s « The White Man Problem » by T. Wignesan

(Jim Everett, Mawbana Pleregannana, b. 1942 on...

Read more of this work...

Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood

Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating...

Read more of this work...

Untimed
Untamed
In the face of a thousand horsepower
Up rises the man of the hour
His passion peaked 
His focus tweaked
Raw
Pure
He spins and loops
Whirlpools each lap
Egos over rev
An...

Read more of this work...

The best way to win a race,
Is to race as fast as you can.
To know the better lines to drive,
And be the better man.

To swerve...

Read more of this work...

Hyperthermia can be caused by standing in slip streams in sluice dumps. It never really fails if ice water can run a lake from a...

Read more of this work...