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Checkmate Poems - Poems about Checkmate

Checkmate Poems - Examples of all types of poems about checkmate to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for checkmate.
Premium Member Metaphors written in psychedelic ink
... When words like seeds remain uncultivated, in somber silence the poet within me dies. In the misery of my perishing poetic oasis, petal like poems refuse to infuse idealistic pigments. But with......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, analogy,
Form: Free verse



My Uncle turns 70
...Seven decades and going strong swimming the currents of Life on song, with ease and elegance he swims gold medals in galore he wins, In Physics and Maths he is wired of its energy and speed, nev......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black and White
...“Moves are slower, concentration intense, as style and wits are pitted. Finally, the remaining white knight makes a brilliant challenge admitted. The black king weak from the affray, a pawn keeps d......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, games,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member End Game Conclusion
...When you’re dying of terminal sadness, It’s easy to fall for false cures, Distracted by tempting amusements Whose needs seem more pressing than yours. When you’re two moves adjacent to checkmate ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, allegory, angst,
Form: Lyric
What does it mean
...to bow to everything, saying that is fate, long before the fate has achieved checkmate? ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, dedication, fate, life,
Form: Questionku



YOUNG AND OLD
...YOUNG AND OLD Wisdom is the only entity that rules this sphere. 'Omode gbon, agba gbon lafi dale ife.' The translation cascades from life's vault: On the wisdom of both youths & adults, The f......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Organ Grinder
...Between paper-soft worlds of fragile imaginations, I float upon those gossamer tulips that split every second of saccharine musings and eclipsed confessions, distinguishing all ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
A Challenging Reflection
... Mind enticed to rhyme- poetry had challenged me, " Checkmate. " Said Haiku. ......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, humorous, imagery, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Retirement
... "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” –Mark Twain Gray strands, falling over crinkly skin Where once was reflected beauty and approval, Now......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, age, autumn, future, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Checkmate
...wherever there be fear or subterfuge our heart dies a little so the problem is huge anticipating outcomes attempting to steer fate living not authentically is essentially checkmate......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, fate, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Heel To Foot
...i always walked a sidewalk on my way back from the park, and i always approached heel to foot, because that’s what my dad taught me that tuesday night i count my steps, and inhale the smell of......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, absence, age, analogy, boy,
Form: Free verse
Waiting: Chess Came Resumes
...Complications why? Let's make it a bit simple, Don't think a lot! Pop that brainstorming pimple! I am waiting for you! To play the next move! Don't try things new! I am waiting! Its your move......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Petty Coat Checkmate
... "The Petty Coat Checkmate" out out damn spot (LadyLabyrinth / 2023) ...Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, muse, poets, repetition,
Form: Narrative
Me
...What am I doing?, the strength of a real poet is to speak truth through words but most words I cannot pronounce, I struggle to recite my poems out loud, i realise i have misspelt as I proceed to......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, anger, career, future,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Skeleton Games
...I played chess with a skeleton named Juve Who during games would get in a groove But it was his fate To never checkmate Coz of repeated, bone-headed moves......Read the rest...
Categories: checkmate, funny, games,
Form: Limerick

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