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Best Chess Game Poems

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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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chess game, fun, new year,
Form: Rhyme



Lifelines
A misty  reflection
in the mirror
of life


a fragile shadow
on the wall
of boundaries


A deep echo
in the tunnel
of thoughts

A  soft whisper
in the voice
of dreams


a broken emotion
in...

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Categories: chess game, confusion
Form: Light Verse
Rule the World
History shows us throughout time,
their main objective is the same crime,
from Nimrod, Alexander, Hitler to Stalin,
all these men and then some have one thing in...

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Categories: chess game, power, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ides of March
*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chess game, celebration, character, conflict, fate,
Form: Sijo
Love Is
Love is Bold
Love is Strong
Love is Wise 
Love is Pure
Love is Crazy

but do we truly mean the definition of I LOVE YOU?.. 

Love is Powerful
Love...

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Categories: chess game, allusion, art, beauty, deep,
Form: Free verse



The Game of Life
CHESS GAME
Chess, friend imitates life
and every movement has its time
and to everything the soul gives lair
and all body incorporates ...

           QUEEN
Always unusual,
vain...
Eccentric
and singular
her force causes
noise ......

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Categories: chess game, analogy, surreal, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coronamania
We've taken off the gloves
the "mask"querade continues
a charade of lying eyes
scanning the dance floor
following the "arrowed" steps
viewing a world through fogging glasses
squinting warily at theories
collusion,...

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Categories: chess game, scary, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spiritual Mahjong Your Move Lord
Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before...

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Categories: chess game, bible, christian, death, i
Form: Free verse
The Cry of a Mere Kenyan
The CRY OF A KENYAN. 
Rihanna talks of The New America
American Oxygen
It seems same for poor Kenya
Our one and only treasure
Drowning in the dark
Driven by...

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Categories: chess game, africa, community, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative
Written Words Work Wonders
Countless lives have been rearranged
By the power of written words; 
For the better many people change, 
While the others from bad to worse.

Millions of books...

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Categories: chess game, bible,
Form: Verse
Things Fall Apart
Adamant mindsets
In a modern setup,
Vibrant visions evaporates
To emptiness, nothingness and waywardness.
Leaving the people in stark darkness,
Leading to nowhere,
As penury is declared "king",
Hunger succeeds the throne
As...

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Categories: chess game, black african american, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Acrostic----Endline Word
I figured I would post a Acrostic/End-Line poem as a guide for my new contest. Plus,
I just really needed to get this out!! 

**Writing Freelance**


Withering...

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Categories: chess game, career, change, goodbye,
Form: Acrostic
Being Non Local
BEING NON LOCAL            


in the recovery of silence
I exchanged my life for nothing
I share...

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Categories: chess game, philosophy
Form: Free verse
Premium Member God Said Checkmate
I was surviving in life, just doing my thing,
Only one day to realize, my life, was a mess.
In life’s chess game, God had my attention,
With...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chess game, god,
Form: Lyric
Should I Die Before You Miss Me
Should I die before you miss me

I spend my days dreaming about you
Dreaming about how good it felt just to be around you
I miss the...

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Categories: chess game, loneliness, lonely, longing, lost
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things