Get Your Premium Membership

Long Checkmate Poems

Long Checkmate Poems. Below are the most popular long Checkmate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Checkmate poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic



Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form: Haibun
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022
Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022

The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically 
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant checkmate
opposing men captured for the queen to use.

Jurassic throwback terrible...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, angst, endurance, february, how i feel, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Death Does Not Discriminate
Death Does Not Discriminate

The plains are now silent, a brief moment in time, and we steal every second we can,               ...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fire Cypher
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold 
A flow that’s so ferocious 
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus 
Possibly psychosis 
Or Musical symbiosis
intelligent my opus 
intellectual Hypnosis  
Rhythm in fluid motion
My style...

Read More
© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checkmate, hip hop, rap,
Form: Free verse



It'Ll All End In Tears
caught in the crossfire, of well-hidden snipers
that aim through the lens, of venomous vipers
paralysed by poison, blinded by spies
unarmed victims, enemies in disguise
shadows that taunt us, ghosts we let haunt us
vanish in the light, of...

Read More
© Guy Mearns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checkmate, adventure, destiny, dream, emotions, happiness, joy,
Form: Epic
Checkmate
Pawn
You've been a peon, lowly pawn your whole life
Never amounted to much,
nothing much ever went right
Grew up dirt piss poor,
never knew the reason why
you were put on this earth for
So you start cyber chasing every...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Warfare of the Weak
Casualties of the aftermath...A Terrorist message, "Not in words"
We 'will' be continually eliminated.  Humans nature; Consistent
Disturbs!    
Why are we a target?    Propaganda...Can deceive
What is it, they 'really' want?...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, allusion, america, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Cartoon Flow
Yeah I got PokeBalls to catch Goals
I'm like Ash Ketchum when he Throws
Cause Ash Catch Em Bold I'm like Pidgeotto when my wings Flow
Look at the the light around me like Pikachu 
With a forcefield...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, character, creation, imagination, poetry, power,
Form: Free verse
Meleager Translations
If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch

Love, how can I call on you;
does...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, desire, drink, feelings, for her, girl, girlfriend,
Form: Epigram
Reflecting the Brake From Back In the Day
Let bygones be bygones though bygones bite on
Blessed to have had good times it’s life it went wrong
though it hurts good memories
to the end they’ll always be 
my friends and never enemies 
mean the most...

Read More
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: checkmate, forgiveness, friendship, friendship love, memory, nice, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Body Mind and Soul
soulbound prayers
i am my own worst nightmare
caught in the middle of misfortune
fathertime
with ladyluck i do not care to share
my body is seperate of my mind
what i say and do
is different than what i wish to...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, confusion, introspectionday, art, art, body, day, me,
Form: Free verse
My Superego
Life is a plan, and it sets out as a plane
So it formed living beings so it constructed me, 
From my psyche to my ego so i wear clothes, 
My Hoodie as a cape and...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, emotions, i am, identity, image, imagery,
Form: Name
Ask Your Self
Thinking you top of the world 
You boogie
Think you untouchable 
Entitled you feel... 
Bully????
Smart know who to try 
Self-absorbed 
Think money buy love
No self-worth 
Looking out side your self, 
For validation 
Holding to toxic love...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, confidence, courage, divorce, encouraging, hair, military, moving
Form: ABC
Looking Back
Searching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, adventure, life, lost love, love, wifelife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Checkmate
Clever queen, I maneuvered my way through all of the subtle and most obvious plays 
Masterfully 
Sensual aestheticism, sexual teetotalism, romanticism, sadism, masochism, hedonism 
Calculating many moves in advance, I played the game mercilessly 
Surrounding...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, passion, me, heart, emotions, heart, love, me,
Form: I do not know?
The Virtuous Path
I listened to a conversation I didn't mean to enter
but an evil sneer sent in my friend's direction
led me to speak before I realized it was a mistake.

In defense of my spiritual sister, 
and the...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, god, religion,
Form: Free verse
2 Terms of Political Office
2 Terms Of Political Office

A political leader of a country successfully managed to extend his term of office...
Brings up the question of the wisdom of the previous curb imposed to 2 terms in office....
Bolehland has...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, community, future, history, humanity, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Invocation of Pinkies In Air When Supping Or Drinking
I adopt dainty etiquette
when quenching thirst or dining
to buzzfeed growling beast
inside me tummy.

The missus requests obedience
raising both my little fingers in the air
upon taking beverage or repast to lips.

Additionally, she also requires I
(well healed husband...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Free verse
The Life Is
The Life Is …

The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not care,
Just as long as my love was there.
When I was...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, allusion, angst, life, old, poetry,
Form: Masnavi
Behind the Sins
no one has the saddle over the wild horse by the name fate
Jose as I had known him, had a life twisted by untamed forces
gifted and talented, we were the best of buddies, our lives...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, best friend, friendship, growing up, innocence, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Check Mate
Gross misconduct bullets falling like rain drops
Mosquitoes kissing marinated children 
While in the hood homeless and thugs
Suck on those the things unruly plugs
Crack-cocaine, meth, mary-jane
Elusive while simultaneously being inclusive
Only check me N marching boys to...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, analogy, anxiety, character, emotions, engagement, introspection,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Checkmate
why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?

Arthur Findlay



The black king and the white king, well they didn't...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, death, metaphor, war,
Form: Rhyme
Living Life Like Chess
TITLE- LIVING LIFE LIKE CHESS

One Monday I got bored by life’s sameness.
To have some fun I decided to do ‘LIVING LIFE LIKE CHESS’.

I spent the Tuesday like a Thorne.
He has death as his destiny from...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, life, peace, philosophy, life, day, life, me,
Form: Imagism
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 there is merely old age, a has...

Read More
Categories: checkmate, age, autumn, future, humor, old, retirement, sunset,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things