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Best Pawn In The Game Poems

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Premium Member A Thousand Dark Secrets
Carrying with me a
halfhearted smile for the
braver men than I.
The men holding tightly
to past perceptions,
live or die.
Suppose I whispered to 'em
what I've heard through
the metaphorical...

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Categories: pawn in the game, anger, angst, bereavement, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse



A Wish Unfulfilled
I came to your hospice,
  I came here to die

I came for my family
  a final goodbye

I broke that one promise,
  I...

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Categories: pawn in the game, death, life, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
I Could Not Do It Before
I Could Not Do It Before
By Dr.  Tina Medina

I could not do it before
I dare not shut the door
My heart yearned for something more
I...

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Categories: pawn in the game, adventure, betrayal, conflict, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Lady Jane Grey's Last Day
Here I am facing my death at age sixteen.
Each moment of my life has been a foreboding scene.
I never had desire to be this nation’s...

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Categories: pawn in the game, death, historyhusband, england, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Monkey On Your Back
The demons inside you has taken your soul
It holds your spirit with a deadly hold
Tormenting your nights with pain and agony
Granting you no comfort for...

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Categories: pawn in the game, life, loss, sad,
Form: I do not know?



Mind Game
heavy confused dreams
filled my night with restlessness
subconsciously awake

endlessly the mind wonders
every thought held as captive
unrelenting fear

the mind takes over
grandmaster of illusion
and I the pawn of...

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Categories: pawn in the game, confusion, fantasy, war,
Form: Senryu
Hope, Fate and Destiny
Alone the hunter-
walked through the frozen tundra.
His will a plunder.


The tireless snow-
Beat harder at his prowess.
Just to let him know.


He will not survive.
Fate now bore...

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Categories: pawn in the game, visionary, strength, , fate,
Form: Haiku
Fallen From Grace
Fallen from grace, 
no longer do I sit high upon the pedestal that you had once put me 
No longer am I seen as idol...

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Categories: pawn in the game, angst, child, conflict, confusion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Written In Self-Imposed Exile
That I be ambushed in early gambit
  for my king was a sacrifice too great -
just a pawn in a game and I am...

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Categories: pawn in the game, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
Slammed In the Slammer
Every breath is  a fresh step.
Forget your last step take a fresh breath.

I may not walk the line.
But I am designed to shine.
The things...

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Categories: pawn in the game, parodyme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Voodoo Doll
I am your little voodoo doll your little effigy, I am what you hate the most, your number one enemy
You made a model of me...

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Categories: pawn in the game, books, feelings, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
A Brittle Boquet
My life has become a brittle bouquet 
Of dead red roses in rapid decay 
And all that I thought one day I could be 
Is...

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Categories: pawn in the game, lifelife, lost, life, lost,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Daydreams a Day In the Life
Daydreams – A day in the life.

I awake to a cornucopia of routines,
a lunch basket - of useless habits
carrying me into the realm of, dreamland
a...

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Categories: pawn in the game, dream, universe,
Form: Free verse
A Fool For You
I used to think that a lot could happen in 6 months
But then you came around and I was wrong
In 2 months' time we made...

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Categories: pawn in the game, abuse, allusion, betrayal, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Mr Alexander Brooks Runningwater
My name is running water did you see me on the trail where I cried          ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pawn in the game, native americanme, people, water,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things