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Checkered Life

Tigers, generally, come in only one type,
wearing a coat with a vertical stripe. 
My dad's stripes go sideways, and as one expects, 
my fur is covered quite nicely with checks.

Categories: checkered, animal, silly,
Form: Epigram

Red-Checkered Sky

In essence
I've been reduced to a piece of bread
asking the same question
when will I wake up?
before anything else
I seek it again
waiting for it to catch me
as the cup turns red
when it moves
I stop

Categories: checkered, fate,
Form: Free verse

checkered cheetah and chimpanzee

checkered cheetah Chancy chanted cheery chipper chant
Chimpanzee curiously concentrated ‘cause cheetah can’t.
cackling cadaver’s cadence cheered chimp’s cheery chance.
delivering devious devilish Dracula during Desmond’s dance.

Categories: checkered, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Bird With a Checkered Past

I met a quirky bird the other day,
  Who has a checkered past, they say.
  Many a nest she left in shambles,
  As she continues her rambles.
  Takes what she needs,
  Leaves others to bleed.
  A bolt hole might be the place for her,
  Could be away for

Categories: checkered, 12th grade, betrayal, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Violet Checkered Box

Jewellery, stylish pens, paper hearts, nostalgic figurines,
Memories of holidays spent in my grandmother's place,
Cherishing purple checker box with snowflakes, praying for same things.

Categories: checkered, art, christmas, grandmother, holiday,
Form: Sijo

Checkered

A pattern like a checkerboard
Is one that I adore,
On clothing, bedding, even rugs
Or tiles upon a floor.

Though stripes and dots and plaid are nice,
I’m partial to the squares,
Especially in black and white;
Not one design compares.

Those little boxes neatly wrought 
To me are unsurpassed,
Except, of course, for someone
Who must hide a checkered past.

Categories: checkered, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Long To See My Lover

I LONG TO SEE
 MY LOVER
SHE'LL BE MY 
CHILDREN'S MOTHER
WE'LL GOOD TO ONE
ANOTHER
JUST YOU WANT AND SEE

LOVE AINT ALL THAT COMPLICATED
SHE'LL HAVE ME HUSBANDNATED
GRATISFACTION AND SATISFACTION
I GUARANTEE

I LONG TO SEE
 MY LOVER
SHE'LL BE MY 
CHILDREN'S MOTHER
WE'LL TALK AND
HONOR ONE ANOTHER
JUST YOU WANT AND SEE
CLEVER CONVERSATIONS
TALKING AND NEGOTIATING
I LONG TO SEE
 MY LOVER
SOMEWHERE SHE WAITS FOR

Categories: checkered, film, music, song,
Form: Ballad

The Last Checkered Flag

What's happened to racing today?
Real racing, not a smart TV app.
I fear the end is not far away.
Who will drive that last victory lap?

No more battles behind the wheel.
A new generation is coming along.
Internet racing replacing the real.
To think virtual is real is just wrong.

Cars built for a purpose.
Built by their own drivers to drive.
To

Categories: checkered, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The Man In Black Checkered Pants

“Who was The Man in Black Checkered Pants?” my parents have asked from time to time. 
They recall with curiosity about my childish and surely exaggerated fear of this figure in my mind. 
I feared the backyard at the farm abutting the woods from whence he might again see me.
I screamed after my nightmares in

Categories: checkered, age, angst, children, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Checkered Pursuits

I wanted to be an engineer
and drive a train insane
always with my chug-chug-chugging
and that four-note whistle
I carried in my dungarees
Whoooo - whhoooowhoooooooo 

I wanted to be a balloonist 'n'
look down on the Earth sun-kissed
and wear a fine coat and 
dark-brown top hat like
the wizard waving goodbye to 
his loyal subjects, that's that

I wanted to be

Categories: checkered, career, childhood,
Form: Rhyme

Checkered

I tried to regain whatever
it is that remained from
the shattered glasses
that broke the stillness
of that night.

I tried to smile again
and forget about everything
that makes this heart go into a 
place
where butterflies flutter in the 
breeze.

I tried to forget about
that day when the rain didn't 
stop falling
just when you decided not to 
come.

Time will pass.
The white

Categories: checkered, depression, forgiveness, friendship, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Free verse

The Green Checkered Face

I take firm grasp of the handle
My goal reflected in the steel of the knife,
I put the knife to its green face
Its' checkered skin;

I flex my bicep, grimace with thirst
I remember the day’s troubles, 
The day’s triumphs, And I cut
The blade breaks the rough surface
Shatters the smooth oval,
And sinks deep into the soft redness beneath
Juice

Categories: checkered, food, happinessheart, heart,
Form: Free verse

The Old Checkered Coat

Seems like yesterday
that I went out to play
in my old checkered coat,
my how memories float.

My mom would say
before you play
put on your checkered coat,
my how memories float.

I remember the day
I heard my mother say
here's your new checkered coat,
my how memories float.

Now today I say goodbye,
in the box it goes, as I say,
goodbye, goodbye old checkered

Categories: checkered, childhood, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Rhyme