Short Checkered Poems

bloody checkered scene
one knight to take the white queen…
conquest was unseen...

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black knights resentment
carnage on checkered pavement
stale mate’s contentment...

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Armies
bi-colored men
standing opposed, moving
across a checkered battlefield.
Checkmate!...

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Salty,
Windy,
Dense,
And thick.
Even the black-and-white checkered 
Sink
Smells like fish....

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Racing for the finish line,
looking for that checkered flag,
no, not the caution flag again,
let them race....

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Sipped one Pabst
  Sobriety lapsed
Resolve collapsed

  Resurrected
His checkered past
  His fiancé aghast
Once more, outcast...

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A patchwork of snow
   Lies still on green checkered fields
Melts way down below...
   As my heart stirs, renewed feels
Our love yet eager to flow...

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once an old witch from dunderry

did ride on something quite scary

did it sing did it dance

did it wear checkered pants

no twas a hairy canary.
...

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Wore my funny pants recently
A checkered pair of pink and green
A feminine look
Wear 'em when I cook
Except for making my egg soufflés routine...

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Jewellery, stylish pens, paper hearts, nostalgic figurines,
Memories of holidays spent in my grandmother's place,
Cherishing purple checker box with snowflakes, praying for same things....

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You came in packages
wrapped in black and white
checkered abstract
ribbon
   knotted
     much
       too
         tight.
In spaces between
   all and nothing
lies my patient
heart....

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A hair crawls into yr life like a
snake, it wriggles in front, maddening
Grab it! And now it sticks! Let go!
Sweaty palm ruboff float
down to the checkered concrete floor
gone and forgotten....

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i hate when others snicker
at all my abstract ways
when all they do is bicker
there seems to be a haze
that keeps us all in position
like pawns on checkered boards
i move by intuition
and thru it, reasured...

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Why won’t you speak to me?
Can you at least tell me where
my checkered golfing socks are?

I said ‘sorry,’ made a hang-dog face.
You laughed.
Then phoned your mother.

Now the  town knows
about the socks....

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Truth
that never lets up
is cruel.
Objectively, Daniel was real
for two afternoons a month
plus a long story of checkered youth
and shaded manhood.
But when he has died
Daniel's reality looms over her
like the god of storms....

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Twisting turning
Engine burning
Never learning
To slow it down

Fires stoking 
Tires smoking
Ever joking 
A common clown

Racing master
Always faster
Near disaster
The best in town

Loves to brag 
Will never lag
Checkered flag
The winning crown...

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hopscotch gray ash leper. 

   quicker to the tray with the 
  embers still burning .

  he smells of malt urine and
  pall mall ciggeretts.

  so steady his genius through
 yellow tar stained fingers. 

 leaping briliantly over checkered tiles 
 in the park....

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Racist checkers-ego fueled. 
Back and forth they go. 
Jump me once I'll jump you twice. 
Careening toward the darkest back row.

Nothing left but two lonely pieces. 
Forever frozen in opposite corners.
Staring over a checkered past.
Over a field of a burned-out dream....

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The boy, he drowns in it, 
That double-breasted flesh blanket, 
Striped and stylish upside down noose,
It's too hard to get loose.

Death delayed as he sees the tree, 
The checkered lag finally waves, 
He's the champion of this Grand Prix
against the non-competing slaves...

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Queen takes pawn ~ Knights get horned ~ Bishop intercedes 

Castle crumbles ~you're in trouble ~ totally deceived

Mind games ~ it's what it's all about

King Moves ~ across the checkered board 

Psychological warfare ~ captured it's too late 

From any angle ~ no escape ~ Checkmate!...

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Too many indigo tears

The Ocean
hides them beneath
her broad blue checkered apron

White capped waves skirt across
a memory
an act
drowned
long forgotten

Vomiting up
salt and brine
debris that won’t
stay down

Resurfacing, beached
upon
tomorrow


An
old shoe
someone once
wore...

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Plates and saucers 
quietly in attendance 
behind the cupboard doors
lick their faded flowers
inside borders service nicked
as time ticks 
off the kitchen clock.

Pile smoothed dish towels
lie in neatly folded rows
as a checkered mate
doubles over the ice box
handle with nothing to dry
but a mother’s tears
for days gone by....

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phantom purr, fantasy fur
obscurity occurs;
matchbox rattlesnake
roulette universe stirring the milkshake.
hitching the horizontal,
words play the stars.
street signs become platonic,
particle dust becomes my sunset
on the narcotic checkered floors.

circulating rotten taste,

secrecy keeps transmitting awake......

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She walked briskly
along the boardwalk,
between the bakery and ocean.

I'd seen her before,
but only once this season,
like an elusive butterfly.

The small basket in her hand,
covered with a checkered cloth,
swung by her side.

I asked what she carried
and without stopping or pause
she replied, “Words cannot convey.”...

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Long legs travel faster
                   Incendiary post:
                 Checkered past,
               Knocked up.
             Eager ears!
            Tell me more!
          Yodel across the valley...

        Soap box
      Platform.
    Lick more stamps!
  In conclusion, gossip
Travels lickety-split!

4/6/2018...

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