The Elephant
...The Elephant is big and strong
It’s history runs deep and long
But lots of Elephant’s are starting to die
These friendly creatures and I’ll tell you why,
They’re being killed by humans all arou...
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Categories:
chess piece, abuse, animal, care, creation,
Form: Free verse
Modern World
...Roses are black, cutting is blue
Maelstrom and hack, precise strike true
Napalm burst fire, hollow chess piece
Tragic this pyre, reaper scythe cease
Plead cry beg scream, dying fashion
Guil...
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Categories:
chess piece, dark,
Form: Rhyme
The Pearl Essence and Dark Horizon
...
"The Pearl Essence and Dark Horizon"
Just,
as a pearl of wisdom
plucked like a
luminous silver apple
from a blue sky forest,
an entrancement;
the Sun watches
...
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Categories:
chess piece, dark, light, muse, romance,
Form: Narrative
Part of a Game
...I was just
Part of a game.
The chess piece y'all
thought you could
move whenever or wherever you want.
A perfect family that
You created in your mind.
Some one you could manipulate
How...
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Categories:
chess piece, family, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Rotated Consciousness Polarity Is It Positive Or Not Just Negative - My Spokenword
...Tears of such just this a random thought
Sadness or joys for the fleshy beating heart
Unseemly unseeking I'm not looking straight forward
Lamented chess piece ivory casted glass on the boa...
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Categories:
chess piece, analogy, anxiety, change, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Kind
...She wore a smile on her face like nothing matter
In a place that's full of benefits and betrayal
Her kind nature lit a passion like candles
Burning one sense of insecurities away
Scars that ...
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Categories:
chess piece, betrayal, death, god, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Festival Performer
...What breed is this?
Sage or Lunatic,
Chess-Piece or Bard.
Do they see silver in the bloodstream,
hearts pumping hard.
Turning lead to gold.
Re-frabricating a life lived hard.
Pieces of e...
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Categories:
chess piece, baptism, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Snow Queens Invitation
...Macabre icicles dangle from Winter’s chandelier, chilling
the chamber of the queen, lachrymose lighting for dears.
Children feel her icy breath against their cherub cheeks,
shivering from shoulder...
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Categories:
chess piece, children, food, winter,
Form: Free verse
On Reading Bertrand Russell
...On Reading Bertrand Russell --
A History of Western Philosophy
copyright date 1945
Trenchant treatise purchased
August 25th, 2020
at Limerick Chapel Book Sale
(in Church gym)
offered old lib...
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Categories:
chess piece, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ravenclaw and Chess Master Knight
...Notoriously tenacious Ravenclaw Rook and Chess Master Knight
In the middle of the tournament had an internal fight.
The rest of the pieces could not see it, it was truthfully not in sight
But the ...
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Categories:
chess piece, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
It Will Never Be Enough
...They claim that you were ‘outdated,’
old-fashioned and ‘not with the times,’
because you hesitated to
give up traditions of your kind.
They claimed new was always better,
that you weren’t on his...
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Categories:
chess piece, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
My Fake Genealogical Knighthood
...My "FAKE" Genealogical Knighthood
Unbeknownst to me if royal
gilded crests comprised
my rusty dust caked coat of arms
hence, I take liberty successfully farms
productive crop to contrive ficti...
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Categories:
chess piece, adventure, age, courage, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Welcome Yoke
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My sweetheart, you work like two keys
unlocking my shy tendencies.
Like a chess piece, your presence frees
me from myself – worst enemies.
Your strength brings to mind young oak trees.
Your...
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Categories:
chess piece, 11th grade, analogy, family,
Form: Rhyme
Longing For the Stars
...My mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I have no des...
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Categories:
chess piece, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: I do not know?
Trust
...TRUST
People say trust is
A two-way street
But I see trust
As chess pieces
Often manipulated
To fit the needs
Of the two players
The sad thing
Is looking back
At the conclusion of ea...
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Categories:
chess piece, trust,
Form: Prose
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