Long Chess piece Poems

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...

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They claim that you were ‘outdated,’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 history’s side.
You noticed their way rarely worked,
“Reactionary!” they...

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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 board now

In seeking my forwarded righteous mind...

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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 fictitious
Medieval Age forebears
with favorable charms
strong agile hands

hurling crude accouterments
centuries prior to...

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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 library books
cost 25 cents apiece.

Musty tome
seventy five years out of print
found welcome home
nevertheless...

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(my friends i wrote the piece below in one long exhale. i did not change a word but 
rather let it sit as it fell. could the writing be improved. yes it could but why...

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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 each game
And see all the chess piece
	Casualties
When you...

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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 eight, to pay for a life of piracy?
Or innocense...

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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 shoulders to feet - she promised them treats.

Squid tentacles, icicles from...

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Standstill
Waiting still
Until the grand steal
When time stood still
In spite of legs 
Time cheats
It flies in our good times
And quantum leaps in our sleep
It crawls in our watch
And spites
It stops in our anguish
As though to prolong...

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"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 
like a voyeur 
from afar
tucked under 
his tenebrous horizon,
while the dark...

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I'm a suspect, a suspect in this mystery
but this case is incomplete
This isn't how it's supposed to be
this: a foreign word but I need to know, need to know this
what is this
Is the stranger me...

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I couldnt question the icy cold
the mystic mass, on a boiling road

Pawn to pawn i see your eyes
your every move a mere disguise
i am not here to take your life
but here to show our will...

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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 queen was prophetic,...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia-toned photographs lined the mantlepiece
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was a...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia-toned photographs lined the mantle shelf
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia toned photographs lined the mantlepiece,
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia toned photographs lined the mantlepiece,
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia toned photographs lined the mantlepiece,
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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A MINUANETTA


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 notches and grooves...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia toned photographs lined the mantlepiece,
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was...

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As we fight we die
While we live we cry

Horrors and pain
Over soldiers slain

Not just soldiers but people with lives
With sons, daughters and wives

There not just another chess piece
For without them all hope would cease 

Our...

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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 doesn't...

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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 you...

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If the end was the beginning and the beginning the end, would you go back in time and 
would you do it again?

Would it make any difference to go counter clockwise, because one you're going...

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