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Chequered Poems - Poems about Chequered

Soul Rose Fulcrum

... my soul-rose has a fulcrum 
sometimes
veined petals spread a  c  R    o   Ss 

skies unknown
                           thorns ready 

for piercing when blood
too perfumed passionat...
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Categories: chequered, allegory, allusion, change, character,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Who Will Not Last the Day

...We who will not last the day
Find time before the night to play.
The gentle laugh, the chequered gray,
The shadows usher starlit ray.
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Categories: chequered, day, death, eve, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe beat goes on

...Since you have been gone  
A lot of water has passed under the bridge
 
A mixed bag of events have occurred
Leaving behind earth-shaking calamities 

Difficult to quantify 
As confusion like w...
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Categories: chequered, abuse, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse

BUDDIES

...Moon's midriff chequered with light blue letterboxes and legos 
Carbon-dating the museums of our miniature hands riding the nightingale jukeboxes, 
Contoured in concertos of glacier nightgowns and ...
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Categories: chequered, blessing, father son, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

Black and White

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They waited, longing for calls of stalemate
Upon chequered realms, embracing fate
The deep sweat of their shades, merged to convey
And became another non-hue - pale grey 

The non-hues were pl...
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Categories: chequered, color, imagery,
Form: Sonnet



Premium MemberIt Started with a Blank Canvas

...I picked up some words,
From an over heaped pile,
Words which impressed me most.
Put them carefully onto a blank paper,
Like a practiced player placing,
Rooks and pawns on a chequered grid.
 
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Categories: chequered, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Imprints of our Shoes

...We tramp along the fire-trail to see a water view;
The sand is damp from morning rain, and imprints of our shoes
Are stamping in beside the chequered tracks of cycle tyres 
As Brett relates the na...
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Categories: chequered, bird, environment, nature, people,
Form: Ballad

Bin Scrapers

...Fall,
     Fall
          And keep on falling until
You splatter and drip
     On the head of a man in a chequered shirt.

He's bin scraping,
                         picking
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Categories: chequered, bullying, sexy, storm, surreal,
Form: Free verse

In the Lord Line Building

...There's a feeling of sadness
Mixed with a wistful awe
As we pick our careful way
Across a rubble strewn floor.
An eerie sort of half light,
As though hiding from the day,
Hiding our history unt...
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Categories: chequered, change, fishing, memory, remember,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberColumbina

...A mischievous Harlequin whispered in my ear;
Of everything he said that night, I don't recall
His honeyed, sibilant voice to me not clear,
o'er his chequered self, a hazy mist did fall....
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Categories: chequered, dream,
Form: Quatrain

Skinwalker

...
"Skinwalker"


That one’s mind 
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy 
cer...
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Categories: chequered, muse,
Form: Free verse

Life

...Not much can be said
about it in few words,
Everyone holds a
 disparate view about it,
It shows us its different faces,
It reveals its dissimilar sides,
It doesn’t allow us a peek into its clos...
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Categories: chequered, journey, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeautiful Frivolous Queen

...Beautiful, frivolous queen bided her time. 
The castle stood tall and strong.
Silence reigned.  No one dared to speak.
Below the enemy had gathered ready for a fight.

A little soldier thought h...
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Categories: chequered, analogy, riddle,
Form: Free verse

O Singer of An Epic

...O Singer of a chequered history, 
Of brazen battlefields bleak, desolate, 
Of life and liberties and tales hoary, 
O of Song Celestial, ageless glory. 

Thou hast outlived thy epochal story,    ...
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Categories: chequered, history, poets, remember,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberA Chequered Game

...A Game
Chequered 
!

Verbose;
Pawned divinity    
Words are pieces
Phrases are moves
Players' wordsmiths 
Egos crowned kings 
Drawn out are words
Empty stands sheath
Reveal your Chess
St...
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Categories: chequered, analogy,
Form: Concrete

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