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Best Chess Poems

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Premium Member The Fallen Poet
(The Fallen Poet)

Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...

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Categories: chess, absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Jack Ellison Tribute
Eighty two years young, but still a trooper,
pen writes daily, he's an evergreen souper.
Behold the limerick king and his wisdom,
providing laughs from his humorous kingdom.

Five...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chess, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Laugh through 2024
“Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game!”
Mehmet Murat ildan


Questions of...

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Categories: chess, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bloodstone Truth
If truth had a color,
when twilight bleeds 
burgundy rivers,
you’ll find these garnet 
eyes pleading
to be heard through 
poetic sunsets. 
For I’ve been swirling 
and twirling
through...

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Categories: chess, emotions, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Last Organ Grinder
Between paper-soft 
worlds of fragile 
imaginations, 
I float upon those
gossamer tulips 
that split every 
second of saccharine 
musings and 
eclipsed confessions, 
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...

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Categories: chess, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Marking Time
daylight hours 
Ozzie and Ben at the picnic table
milkweeds dance across the board
chess match underway all day, every day

many stories shared, some repeated; neither cared...

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Categories: chess, death, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raspberry Ruins
In a world bejeweled 
with tainted trinkets,
and feigned flowers,
we follow the 
wailing waves below 
whirling wind,
like secluded silhouettes,
stranded on the
cusp of chaos,
unable to find the...

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Categories: chess, deep, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Roses Are Red Collab-26
These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous.  If you would like to add one of your own...

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Categories: chess, anti bullying,
Form: Limerick
Far Away
I dream of the old house, five thousand miles
away, across the sea, high on the hill,
the garden where the rhododendrons shade
the black and white tiled...

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Categories: chess, age, childhood, home,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member - Empty Summer Home -
Let us be the rays of the sun that scatter the rays of joy
   … even if the «devil" never ends…
  ...

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Categories: chess, earth, life,
Form: Free verse
Before My Soul Reaches the Sky
Before my soul reach's the sky.

On earth, i would climb beyond to the peak of success.

Reaching beyond the reach of my physical stretch.

Before my soul...

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Categories: chess, death, inspirational, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Twilight Throne

I'm the lion-hearted fragrance of basil stars, 
breathing blames like the Goddess of Hurricanes, 
but, was this twilight throne, ever mine to tame?
I'll forever bleed...

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Categories: chess, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Verse
Life Is Like Football
It took just a moment
A single concentration lapse
And down the drain,Bayern's effort went
Whilst Messi enjoyed the claps


Life is like a football game
As dicey as a...

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Categories: chess, art,
Form: Didactic
A Beautiful Woman
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN 

Her face was a constellation of perfections 
She was ravishing; beautiful beyond condemnation. 
Her voice was like many water 
Yet, it's coo...

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Categories: chess, beautiful, inspirational, success, uplifting,
Form: Ekphrasis
Incredible India
We are the Indians noted for our humanness and calm nature
With no harshness in our Principles and ideals.
We are open minded, emotional and good natured
Our...

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Categories: chess, patriotic, integrity, universe,
Form: Epic

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