Long Grandmaster Poems

ROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER

Leonardo's Art

Leonardo da Vinci, a visionary of his time, was often likened to a grandmaster wielding a baton, orchestrating...

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A boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado, 
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...

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I stand proud with pride...

exuding suave debonair air 
plus head and shoulders taller
(than the empire state building -
hey what's a little hyperbole, eh?)
since September eleventh
two thousand and twenty four,
which date marked a major change
(yes folks...

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A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole where bunnies ware
Waist coats and fancy pocket watches!
Empty tea cups,...

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Let's take it back to the days of Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash
The Rap masters, who actually had swagger
Dr dre, When he was in N.W.A before Death Row records or Aftermath
Ice Cube, Eazy E, Mc...

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Believing my brain, can be used for learning from higher, 
                       as I...

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     Dark rain dripping
     hands and feet poised ready
     as danger appears

Two Kung Fu masters ~ trouble eye to eye
There would be no peace...

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Mine offset fooey zook equilibrium
translated into at least one raw bit
(hmm...maybe the naughty one) being askew,
which nearly (worse case scenario) critically
could burn up every hair strand fiber optic wired conduit

sans, and destroy the primary, secondary,...

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gravity
homeboy got capped in the knee
out in the streets 
let the truth be told
where as years ago
with Grandmaster P
he was born in the gutter 
his momma was a whore
selling her junk in the trunk
in back...

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Argh... infamous pinwheel on macbook pro 2009

alas and alack
myopic staring eyes
bulge out their sockets,
cuz yours truly taken aback
I espied sight more frightful,
than rookie dazed chess player

checkmated courtesy men in black
pawn during next move dizzily
stunned as...

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In labyrinths, shadows dance and flicker, a chessboard of time unfolds,
Where dreams, like pawns, march solemnly through mist and silent groves,
And every queen, crowned with sorrow or with joy, knows the ancient moves,
For life, the...

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I am a capitalist, I hate to share
I am opulent, this is worth my flair
I am the one percent that is worth your fifty
This must be the artistry of the ingenious and thrifty 

I am...

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A Victorian house kept in perfect shape,
A garden that made a beautiful landscape.
A notice stated it was for a quick sale,
But do beware of the ghost and its foul wail.

It was the ideal place I...

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The Keyboard of My Heart
By

Stan Almendro

The Keyboard of my heart has no ivory keys to play
 Music comes from what I think, dream and what I say
A melody that people hear is my happy, sensitive...

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Just chilling in my zone and I'm home alone
got me in the zone
man it used to be a blast from my past when peeps did rap
now a days they given me a heart attach
got these...

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the streets are now empty the clubs are shut down

not a sound until...

in the morning there will be sun a chance to have a lot of fun

old school to new school that how we rule

work...

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Well, I sit here all day and I practice Chopin
And I bang that poor keyboard like no other man.
What the hell does it get me but sore fingertips?
As I grunt in frustration while chewing my...

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I don't have bling
I don't rap, play blues or sing
I'll never be a cool black guy
My strut is weak
My cred roams far yonder
Miles away from the street
I'll never be a cool black guy
The booty I...

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Our dark founding father, of American literature,
A sinister beacon of darkness, lighting the way
Into the darkened abyss of mankind’s soul.
Within the galleria of madness, he is the
Grandmaster of the black ink, and it's
 Written words...

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Sweet flowing hands
Sweeping charm
Dancing slowly
Like wings
of a butterfly

His eyes - gentle, perceiving, acknowledging
In the midst of silence, he's aware of her every move

Sliding along 
Shuffles feet
as arms 
go back
Taking snake shape
The great cobra strikes

His lips...

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before Jeezy and Weezy
before going platinum was easy
before rock wit it snapping and leaning
before the souls of B.I.G and Pac was leaving
before the media hyped the east and the west into beefing
before thugging was a...

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The latest news about the Chess Grand master told the web space
That he joined the Independent University.
It took me to the referral of Time “Epoch,”
As the time travels through the walls of Jerusalem that boasted...

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When I was growing up, we lived on the worst part of town, the West Side
Just like every Sunday, I would get on my bike and go for a ride
Down to Thompson's Drug for a...

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Yes I can say I love you
And  yes you can say it back
I can feel the loves true
To see that I don’t need a smack

What can I do to show you
How much I really...

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rhymed couplets

Advice from the oldest in the pasture,
former race horse, derby grandmaster.

We are not losers let loose in the fields;
we horses tell how effortless "wild" feels

No jockeys here, no brutal whips.
No metal bar between my...

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