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Glue Bill Whar Ming Dublin Down
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matthew harris
| Free verse |
rook, 10th grade, 11th grade,
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Ironic Grook
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Bernard F. Asuncion
| Acrostic |
rook, birthday,
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One Knight Stand
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
rook, computer, conflict, culture, games,
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Rapa Nui Warriors
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Hamish Gardner
| Free verse |
rook, allusion, anxiety, political, power,
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On Attack: A Rainbow Six Siege Poem
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Damian Smith
| Free verse |
rook, adventure, beach, rainbow,
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A Match In the Dark
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Gregory R Barden
| Free verse |
rook, analogy, death, fantasy, metaphor,
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Rook Takes Pawn
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Maureen McGreavy
| Free verse |
rook, bird, games, lust, sexy,
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Rook takes Pawn
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John Anderson
| Haiku |
rook, games,
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Great Scot Resolves
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Duncan R. M. Ferguson
| Enclosed Rhyme |
rook, lost, relationship,
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My Literary Tools
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amolkumar udarwar
| ABC |
rook, appreciation, august,
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CHESS LOBSTER
by Terry Reeves
The lobster smiled at Carlsen on the other side of the table,
never played one before, appropriate his name was Klawvostic,
they say that Carlsen waits for...
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Categories:
rook, fish, funny, imagination, red,
Just Because
by Destiny Lawson
Just Because…
Just because I am a teenager,
Does not mean I am loud,
Does not mean I am a loser or loner,
And does not...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
rook, teen,
TRUST
by jenny morelli
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...
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Categories:
rook, trust,
Eden at midnight
by Corwin Donovan
The crescent moon rose to glow,
Among the blistering winter snow,
The cracking mirror reflection showed,
That this was not where we should go,
Departing angels flying to and...
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Categories:
rook, dark, deep, judgement, poems,
March
by Jonathan French
March, ephemeral child of winter,
orphaned in your redolent infancy,
let me always hold your hand.
Indecisive waif, harried to higher suns
by impatient, summer guardians,
you have an empathetic...
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Categories:
rook, march,
A QUOCK is not a QUACK nor a QUINTESSENTIAL QUARTERBACK
by Taoi Chanan
Quickly quickly now quack quack quock" said the rook on a rock by the dock at six o clock. But no rock ever did tock...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
rook, allegory, baby,
Diamond Rook
by Mary-Jane Watson
Titanium.
Smooth and cold to the touch.
Rhinestones.
Blinding shimmer, small iridescence.
Blood.
Thick, warm, metallic.
Even the beautiful gems become absorbed in the red,
Their shine masked...
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Categories:
rook, anger, dark, depression, hurt,
SOULS
by Leon Enriquez
Beyond age
Beyond stage
Beyond page
Old fold
Old whole
Old soul
Deep mood
Deep food
Deep good
Sweet say
Sweet play
Sweet way
Fond space
Fond face
Fond grace
Time chimes
Time mimes
Time rhymes
True pace
True race
True ace
Light cheers
Light steers
Light clears
Souls...
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Categories:
rook, change,
aaj ki phehchan
by jagdish bajantri
Aaj ki phehchan
Aagar ruk gayi meri hichaki
Tho Mar jaouga mai agara
ruk gayi yaad tumhari tho
mit jaouga mai deykhna hai
imtahan mahoobat...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
rook, absence, day, memory,
Introspectore Sceptre
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
I laid myself open for scrutiny
Only made me threadbare for mutiny
I shuffled my deck fanned out on felt
But my king was fallen so I inclined...
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Categories:
rook, analogy, journey,
Our world without colour - remastered
by Mark Martin
Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating...
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Categories:
rook, allegory, animal, color, conflict,
Our world without colour
by Mark Martin
Classic silent films
Redundant technicolour
Piano plays mood
Panther and snow leopard
Duelling with chess
Under a scintillating firmament
A dome of diamonds floating on infinity
Moonlight softly slicing the shadows
Illuminating their...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
rook, allegory, animal, color, fantasy,
A Gentleman's Game
by Lycia Harding
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Can any here recall my name?
Intoned by plenty years ago,
today I'd say but for a game
they play, not many here may know!
But here I stand...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
rook, games, war,
A Danse Macabre
by John Lofquist
Along a winding country road
one autumn’s day of late,
I chanced upon an aged abode,
up a hill beyond a gate.
The house was old and quiet,
not a...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
rook, allusion, confusion, dark, dream,
Checkmate
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
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...
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Categories:
rook, allegory, allusion, life, metaphor,
A Geek at Play
by Paul Callus
A Geek at Play
a dork
from York
mistook
the rook
for knight
in flight.
defend
till end?
too late
check mate!
- - - - - - - - - -...
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Footle |
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Categories:
rook, humor, silly,
Killing Time
by Atara Scott-Thoennes
The clock ticks and ticks never stopping.
Time goes by like water,
Flowing down and out,
Of the vessel that binds it.
I wish it...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
rook, time,
Looks
by Rory Christy
Looks...
What could make me look this way, bent dismay, today or the next day seem too far away. Why look, in a book, let the...
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ABC |
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Categories:
rook, age, anxiety, beauty, body,
Chess
by Sofia Pedersen
She was your king
In a game of Chess
The one piece you valued most
You played your pieces
With my heart on your sleeve
You played your pieces
Neglecting that...
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Categories:
rook, heartbroken, love, love hurts,
The Court of 64
by Jesse Rowe
The Court of 64
had declared war
thus ending all debate.
The king regarding
not a thing
for loyal subjects' fate
in haste decreed
his ivory breed
to crush the ebon stained.
The queen...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
rook, fantasy, humor,