Pawn Poems - Poems about Pawn

your hurt, my hurt ...

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carved from ivory ...

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I moved one square for years. Safe, small, obedient. Until I reached the edge, and they asked what I’d become. I said: Anything I damn well please....

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It sat with double doors propped open inviting the poor, the sad, the broken Its dusty shelves stuffed and sated with objects – some fresh, others dated I carried my dreams with heavy arms formerly dazzling magical charms Now in tattered cardboard boxes a life in unresolved paradoxes Prized possessions, cherished memories adored as luxurious shiny accessories Their worth besmirched and unfamiliar traded for coins of...

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She is a Queen; she doesn’t need a king to reign. Your absence was meant to shatter her world, But you forgot—she builds empires from the ruins. You thought you were playing her like a game of chess, But she saw every move; you were just a pawn. You believed betrayal would go unnoticed, That her silence meant weakness. But silence is...

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ANOTHER TIME. FROM THE CRUST At a time when it crows I set up to a lain me at thine bowl Full weight! Full length a naked yoke There you set my piece at thine brow There I grew to thankfully crawl On the night as if sword was drawn In the bid to stay, I learned to call Abba They...

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Impatiently I wait, can't you feel my ache? Dragging on, this longing’s a heavy weight. Do you mock me, think me a clown? A jester's jest, just to keep you crowned? Looking down from your throne so high, Leading me on with a teasing sigh. Knowing I'm here, a pawn in your game, Yet still, foolishly, I remain the same, Stuck in place,...

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Calling at the midnight hour come my demons and my dreams, each with hope of casting colored skys of their choosing over the vast open regions of this restless mind. The first come crashing in as an army of conquest bringing with them dark clouds of coming events and impending trials, raining cold fear of...

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I was cursed with ink intoxicating blank canvases with toxic scribbles, releasing twisted tales of suppressed troubles. I was a forsaken ebony rose in satan's grasp, kneeling on ungodly needs in a gothic fortress of woeful odes, surrounded by black knights and colorless blossoms, searching for legitimate sestinas and versatile villanelles to ignite my quill to bleed without semantic barriers. Swaying like a pendulant, on...

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Once pawn a time... About four plus weeks after frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters white knight still mourns swindled money Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator (assistant to Philadelphia attorney general) unable to recoup forfeited funds. While holed up in castle keep, (albeit fetchodit fuming father cursing out blimey scamming creep), I replay nightmarish scenario that disallows me to sleep inconsolable tears yours truly doth weep. Though secular humanist, nevertheless...

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Once a pawn a time within castellated bishopric We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra at Enterprise Car Rental 1207 West Ridge Pike Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428 April thirteenth two thousand twenty three witnessed greatest amount of money I spent at one time. The following day April 14th, 2023 (after my automotive troubles seemed so far away), when important business concluded at: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation - Photo License Center, 1700 Markley...

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I do feel that Mr Trump's been changed I'm most aware..of a different range Of vaccine speed in the weft and warp' Billions talking in from the scoros corp A human queen he finds so amazing I kid myself not, that he's even hazing.? I saw some UK pundits view; they say.' He's changed.. and they're not kidding hey! Is this just...

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We flip the hourglass for time, use moments as each hour's pawn. Then store Today, when past its prime, midst Yesterdays--now finished, gone. If we could make one moment stay just by flipping the hourglass, how to choose the hour, the day so many moments come and pass. Or, as time's measure disappears, will we, in greed, pound on the door of hours, minutes, days,...

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Poisoned pawn, desire-aversion Observe mind oscillate Worthy lama, chose cessation In tranquil calm sedate God beckons, go in now Fragrance of love follow Vibrant, joyous, mellow Lust we spawn Poisoned pawn 12-December-2021 Quietus ...

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Poisoned pawn, be wary of lust Taste at your own peril Ego cravings, learn not to trust Choose seeds we sow and till We are not mind-body Discard then thoughts shoddy Negate desires gaudy Life game gone Poisoned pawn 19-September-2021 Quietus ...

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