Checkered Past Poems | Examples


Reflections of the Past, Visions of the Future

Tying the knot,
I thought sowed my soul.
Making me a better man,
But I discovered the lack.

Learning how to respect one another.
Loving another at the cost of loving myself.
Unrequited pain, a new form of loneliness.
The body exposing it through night terrors.

Ending with a big bang.
I rebirthed being alone.
In darkness He did his magic.
Cementing my non-negotiables.

Yet again I stand with another.
Uncomfortable comfortable.
Both of us with a checkered past.
Trepidation with hands on the wheel.

Wiser with a touch of grayscale.
A new kind of love we embark.
Both of us have probed for faults.
Scared of what seems perfection.

I stand with her having shaking hands.
And a fearful smile from my past.
I look over to see her response.
For once trepidation turns to tranquil.

She reads me like a book.
Caring where no one has before.
Nurturing my every wince.
The chips are landing perfectly.

Premium Member 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 some place to stay,
  Or run away.
  A home, a nest of all her own.
  Where she can store her stuff when done and ready to roam.
  A place to retreat and be alone.
  To atone or find an excuse for shredding a nest.
  Putting relationships to the test.
  Managing her quietude without all the rest:
  Compromise,
  Communication,
  Clashes,
  That help make nests some of the best.
  Failure to see the value in these will continue with failures for all the rest.
  Quirky birds will fill in nests,
  But never count on them to stay,
  They tend to ramble and fly away.
  Walk on the glass path they fill,
  But always remember," the bird has a checkered past,
  Relationships don't last"!


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.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Stalemate

~~A chess match is an opaque mirror into societal clash
slippery rules and taboos playing upon a checkered past
balcony kings and queens glaring down on the lower caste.
Ramparts buttressing crooked flanks, serfs in the murky front
devouring dirt, taking the brunt of many skirmishes to come.
Senators riding sky horses, gliding so high above the fight
neighing nonsense -fanning their brand of hell fire lies.
Speedy tongued bishops blitzing on the slanted slide
in our faces, showcasing only the wrongs of our lives.

Black and white toppling ungracefully to the side.
Flimsy smiles and flint handshakes without dialogue  
another fiery stalemate on the blazing horizon~~

Premium Member Resurrected

Sipped one Pabst
  Sobriety lapsed
Resolve collapsed

  Resurrected
His checkered past
  His fiancé aghast
Once more, outcast
Form: Monorhyme


Premium Member Lickety Split

Long legs travel faster
                   Incendiary post:
                 Checkered past,
               Knocked up.
             Eager ears!
            Tell me more!
          Yodel across the valley...

        Soap box
      Platform.
    Lick more stamps!
  In conclusion, gossip
Travels lickety-split!

4/6/2018
Form: Acrostic

The Third Rail

You got two friends,
and they’re both dear to your heart
But they don’t much care for each other
Before you met either of them,
	    they already knew one another
Their checkered past had a dark history,
bitter chapters of a contentious backstory
But, you knew about none of that,
only knew that you loved them both
And the rift between them didn’t change that fact
When two locomotive emotions 
	are moving on a collision course,
		don’t get caught standing near the third rail — 
Don’t get too close
Friendly electrocution is still a fatal execution
And at the funeral,
those two friends will have crying eyes
Each blaming the other 
	        as the reason why you died
Form: Verse

Eyes of Love

The many eyes of Qiniso’s love-life
There was the one with the soft eyes
Speaking to a peaceful existence
The one with the dark eyes
Which reflected her ill-treatment at the hands of the meanest of men
She had her dagger out to exact revenge on ALL men
An unapologetic misandrist
The one with piercing eyes
Threatening to do the unthinkable 
If the circumstances so dictated
Darting eyes
Unsure of which love-path to follow
Loving eyes
Casting warmth on his soul
Fearful eyes
Unsure of how long this would last
Guilty eyes
Speaking to a checkered past
Blank eyes
Reflecting an empty soul
Devoid of hope
Wide, bright eyes, speaking to unparalleled intelligence
Innocent eyes
Untainted by the evils of this world
Beady eyes, 
Screaming lechery and malice
As someone once said: the eyes are the windows of the soul

If Things Were Different

If things were different it wouldn't be the same; 
A rightous sense of peace and no place found for blame. 

It’s hard to imagine types of things could ever change; 
So many broken pieces unable to arrange. 

A checkered past, that was riddled with guilt.  
Dried up a flower, too late to watch wilt. 

Without action by a master of disguise; 
There may never have been a you and an I... 

A closed mind kept shut and hidden inside. 
Slowly but surely a love left and died. 

This cloak such concealed truth to not remove. 
A childish boy with something not to prove. 

Many days came late several dollars same short. 
If we took back the past, we'd regret much, much more. 

In light of the present, we reflect upon the past. 
Left with no time to dwell, oh well, it's all over fast. 

Into action, reaction in the blink of an eye,
I wonder what it'd be like between you and I? 

It is a shame what has become; for that I must admit. 
I wonder what it would be like if things were different?

8/14/16
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Racist Checkers

Racist checkers-ego fueled. 
Back and forth they go. 
Jump me once I'll jump you twice. 
Careening toward the darkest back row.

Nothing left but two lonely pieces. 
Forever frozen in opposite corners.
Staring over a checkered past.
Over a field of a burned-out dream.

Premium Member Journeys

Journeys

My journeys, my adventures through time
have come to you on the wings of many a rhyme.

There are delightful blisses, heart breaking sorrows,
from the past, in the here and now, in my tomorrows.

Tomorrows, being the future we may not know.
Tomorrows, promised to no one, we may not go

into that space , that place in futures time,
except for psychics, writers of prose and rhyme.

The essence of my checkered past, my history,
have come to you through many a sad story.

Ninety two volumes, in honest detail, do tell
of this foolish man, seventy three, who fell

from the walls, onto the wrong side of life’s glory,
to live out a life of ???,  this be a part of my story. 

The many adventures, journeys coming to an end
as I slowly saunters upon a path to the next bend.

B. J. “A ” 2
September 28th 2016
Form: Rhyme

If Thing Were Different

If things were different it wouldn't be the same; 
A just sense of peace and no place just for blame. 

It’s hard to imagine that things could ever change; 
So many broken pieces unable to arrange. 

A checkered past, that was riddled with guilt.  
Dried up a flower, too late to watch wilt. 

Without action by a master of disguise; 
There may never have been a you and an I... 

A closed mind kept shut and hidden inside. 
Slowly but surely a love left and died. 

This cloak concealed truth to not remove. 
A childish boy with something not to prove. 

Many days came late and several dollars same short. 
If we took back the past, we'd regret much, much more. 

In light of the present, we reflect upon the past. 
No time need you dwell, skinny, it is all over fast. 

Action, reaction and in the blink of an eye,
I wonder what it'd be like between you and I? 

It is a shame what has become. I must admit. 
I wonder what it would be like if things were different?

-Ironic Zinc 2013
Edit on 6-6-16-
Form: Rhyme

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