Best Chess Poems

he's holding her hand
cheerleader beyond the glass
his knight takes my queen


02/03/16...

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A grand display the way she plays 
      the game of love to hearts’ dismay;
   with shrewd foreplay she stalks her prey 
         expecting that she'll have her way.

Like game...

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Some said they lost all hope;
Some did, you saw it in their eyes:
That little light
That shines so bright
Became dull and disappeared.
Some became bitter, some wise,
Some couldn't cope.
That small white
Flicker, once bright,
Slowly went out.

So often that is what I see
In eyes, even on TV,
and I recognise,
For...

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"Life is like a chess match 
To win you must be swift and able to maneuver 
Yes, life and the chess match are very much the same 
Once the king dies, no others continue the game" 

The Pawn 
The shape of the pawn represents the...

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Shall we adjourn from the 
morning morgue
For pizza and a game of chess?

Rays Curve Along The Earth

It is daybreak
With morning comes the 
shining off the layers of the 
lake
And mourning the opening of 
the floodgates
We went down to the coffee 
table
Skipping past the cherry tree
This...

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Aptly said and boldly spoken.
Chess is over
lacking all stakes and honor.
Every Black chess player went to Checkmate,
All others forfeit!
Let's ignore the real someone and scatter back homewards.
"We didn't much play him, Good Folks, but remember
In this world so dishonest,
We're dressed up quite nicely.
And, oh yeah,...

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2#
Silence spoke to me when i was feeling very, very small
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Champions playing against the clock
Heart breaking moves tick, tick, tock
Eagerly watching their opponents moves
Strategy playing on a black and white board
Special chess pieces with different names
A mind sport game for masters with brains
Testing their skills on sixty four squares
Playing for hours in tournament pairs
Losing and...

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Armies
bi-colored men
standing opposed, moving
across a checkered battlefield.
Checkmate!...

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Child of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.

Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cynical,
how cruel a fate awaits the one
that conquered Caissa’s pinnacle.

With skills eroding into rust,
a mind among things you...

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grief joy grief joy
black white squares of life
who is the chess player

20.10.2019
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Shogi
me?
I can barely play Go Fish

Old Maid is well over my head
Shogi?
I think not

Shogi: Japanese chess
where you get to use your
opponent’s captured army...

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One night, at midnight he came to me,
    Telling me it’s time to leave.
    What he is offering will place the world at my disposal,
    My life will be much greater if I accept his proposal

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Morning In The Hair Salon

She would chat and then nod as she washed
And laugh as she dried and then curled
But behind all the smiles that were wide, fixed and false
She felt challenged and alone in the world.

She felt angry and always so tired
With debts adding...

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Can any here recall my name?
Intoned by plenty years ago,
today I'd say but for a game
they play, not many here may know!

But here I stand and there you sit
and since we're comrades, more or less,
let's have a bit of fun with it!
What hints I give...

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