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Checkerboard Poems - Poems about Checkerboard

Premium Member Look on the Bright Side
...My wife picked up the phone and called her friend Lucy Said we'll be in your haunts, we're coming to D.C. "We found a hotel in Largo, it has a large pool It will take our dog, and the kids don't h......

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Categories: checkerboard, america, cheer up, culture,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Checkerboard Gambler's Lament
...Red ants scuttle across the sand, each, his purpose known, all aware of what they must do - they don't need to be shown. Black ants, likewise, know their duties, according to their ranks, al......

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Categories: checkerboard, allegory,
Form: Rhyme



Homeostasis
...As white as the driven snow. Coming back from a lot. Chosen to be around. Bubbly baking soda, region of snow. Playgirl bunny, lil playboy star. Than again too much confetti. Black lives matte......

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Categories: checkerboard, art, metaphor, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Two Old Gods
... Two old men. That’s all; not much to look at. Their frail, broken shadows shrunk against the sunny morning Brightness slowly searching its way through gnarled branches Overhead, and crisscross......

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Categories: checkerboard, age, friendship, games, memory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Girlish Dreams
...The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore she adores the breeze adorned with gems emeralds fly fr......

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Categories: checkerboard, dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Darkest Before Dawn
...In my chest is a black void That has left me annoyed I'm tired of rhyming schemes And vapid memes I'm tired of perplexed faces In outrageous places Life is like a checkerboard Where every king......

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Categories: checkerboard, how i feel, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Easter Dinner
...EASTER DINNER they liked the one behind me the teal and black checkerboard its sparkling tiles on the diagonal red, yellow, blue, pink pillows on sofas and chair the sunrise was un......

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Categories: checkerboard, art, easter, food,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Check Mate
...Gross misconduct bullets falling like rain drops Mosquitoes kissing marinated children While in the hood homeless and thugs Suck on those the things unruly plugs Crack-cocaine, meth, mary-jane ......

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Categories: checkerboard, analogy, anxiety, character, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Checkerboard Queen
...The checkerboard queen was choosy about who she would play. Her game pieces were expensive, she did not want them taken away. She had her suspicions about so many players that it was crazy. She es......

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Categories: checkerboard, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Positively Stunning
...I used to be obsessed with fashion, caring far too much about clothes, Like the sun whenever he's coming and going, is striking vanity's pose. I lavished absurdly upon my wardrobe, in excess of w......

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Categories: checkerboard, fantasy, fashion, growth, love,
Form: Couplet
Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For Time
...Our boat is first to slice The green snake skin of Clam Lake This Saturday morning in May Heading east to the mouth of Grass River Where angry Pike still hunt from shallows Before the Milfoil ......

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Categories: checkerboard, father son, fish, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandpa's Chair
...Mountains survey checkerboard acreage Valleys squint at lonely peaks A storm is brewing, black nimbus gathering Could the earth speak, it would shriek A forlorn, gray cottage, streaked with......

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Categories: checkerboard, home, rain, sleep, storm,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Checkers
...Nobody plays a good game of checkers anymore, Squared off like fierce, ruthless fiends Hunched over, hypnotized by crowned kings And heavy losses spent of jubilee You can't plug in a checkerbo......

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Categories: checkerboard, fun, games,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chess
...Games that empower the mind with mental challenge, especially with a counterchallenge, not only for entertainment, but also food for the brain. The game of Chess, a two-player checkerboard, w......

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Categories: checkerboard, graduate,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Blessings From Heaven
...All blessing great and small come from God in heaven above. Many we see, know and love. Many just pass us by in life like a flying dove. Abundance even when we were poor Blessed everyday wit......

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Categories: checkerboard, blessing, books, god, happy,
Form: Abecedarian

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