Short Stalemate Poems

when a soulmate dies ~ life quickly becomes a stalemate.



bite size poem# 10...

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in the game of life
please don’t treat me like a pawn
the next move is yours

12/29/17...

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      ~ aka 'Forever War' ~

  Israel won't quit fighting until every Hamasnik is dead
    Hamas won't quit fighting until every last Jew on earth is bled...

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Our life is a chess game
              If your king’s dying,
Don’t be checkmate
              But try for a stalemate





Bite size poem no.20
6/09/2021...

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This universe is a chequered board
Where facts are sacrificed as pawns
To defend ideas antediluvian.

Our horizon is constantly receding
Knowledge and ignorance clash
Ending in a stalemate....

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SURPRISE
a
renowned
 originality
a
 sketch
of
 the curious
 ended in a stalemate

a
 single tapestry
of
atmospherics
 sometime
 evident
in the
unprecedented
 innovation
adopted
of
   coolly
detached views...

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when an impenetrable shield ~ is struck by an unbreakable sword 

in the collision not one atom is lost ~ and stalemate gets restored

far better to have a standoff truce ~ than fight an unwinnable war 

By
David Kavanagh...

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surprised target
without you
perhaps on the desolate streets
my dreams buried in the dark

not selected stalemate in the dead-end streets
who is killer

unquestionable secrams
befor the final curtain
this is not the worst

foreign stays to hearts...

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the fight between day and night
light and dark
fantasy and fear
they have come to a stop
come to a conclusion
and stopped the feuding
for now the fighting
has stopped
for now they are at 
a stalemate
for now they live in peace
til' the day
til' the day
the fighting heats up again....

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The absence of copula, 
black and white to and fro,
Pidgins broke the rules.

Yu spik a long tang,
ol rul mas stop, Braddah.

Into colonial subjugation,
Pidgin has no future, stalemate.
Falls under freedom of slavery,
let's have an interracial,
the bukkake of licentia poetica....

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Played chess at the park
Giant board made on the grass
Four foot tall pieces
Played with a psychiatrist
Every move a stalemate



Barbara Gorelick
For the Dream contest...
I don't even know how to play chess...I don't even know a 
psychiatrist, but maybe this means I should find one...lol...

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Always changing strategies
when i think we're stalemate
your manipulating mind
I'm almost in checkmate

Have me on my toes
your proving very clever
worthy adversary
a challenging endeavor

But see you've overlooked
a keen eye I have for detail
youth is so impetuous
almost hate to see you fail...

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clash of egos,
differences 
of perspectives 
stalls fluidity.
a partnership dissolves 
ideas 
once a mountain stream 
flowing 
seamlessly,
now a trickle;
static electricity.
synergy,
at rest;
in a state of stagnation.
they've assumed 
the position 
of chess pieces 
from which 
no further move.
is possible....

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STORM 
thunder clashes 
a deluge of rain follows 
no birds tweeting 

MARCH ON 
the bugle’s first post 
soldiers on parade 
heavy footsteps 

CIVIL WAR 
guns in abundance 
the clock is ticking fast 
stalemate 

SUSPENSE 
atmospheric music 
there’s a muffled scream 
glass shattering 

SNOWSTORM 
heavy snow falling 
all quiet on the outside 
fire crackles...

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Yes, we’ve got the message
But what of its passage?
From your factories vapor
That does not foster rapport:
To residents a mission
Cushioning the emission…

I fear rearing stalemate 
And a final waiting bait.
I wonder the smart platform
You’ll set up to quell the storm.
Whom you choose as Delegate
They shall behind relegate…

To Angering Pollution
Bribery not solution...

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MEN’S WEEKEND FUN
……………………

THE GETAWAY

Vegas
First-Class


FOUR BACHELORS IN  A BAR

Find date
Stalemate


TIME FOR POKER

They bluff
Sell stuff


CRUISING BY MIDNIGHT

Road Trip
Bucks dip


GUY TALK

“Love hurts”
Rhum spurts!



PUNCHLINE  FROM A WOMAN

Playboy?
Girl’s Toy


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Muse me mine
No crime to run along another line
Reveal a peal of thunder
Steal a thought from jeopardy
Otherwise, no one will see
The gem beneath the lime-rick
Stalemate draws to endless squabble
Deny the place for psychobabble
From a zone of rubble, define a truth 
Magnificent in grandeur
The whistle of a distant train
A swift arrival crossing over
Bearing friction of the truth...

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Imagine imagine
The forest clandestine,
The waterfall, sinless and grand.

Alone in the stillness,
A heart-halting illness,
Beleaguers you, seizing command.

Affairs of the vengeful,
So darkly and dirgeful,
So beautifully stated with lust.

With fate you are weighted,
With passion created,
But constantly lacking in trust.

Discordant and jarring,
Emotions are barring,
The musical mystics are spry.

In heaven artistic,
In hell optimistic,
On earth realistic, they die....

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