Short Wunderkind Poems

 Late, controversial American chess grandmaster, Bobby Fischer
 Became an anti-semite, fugitive, hermit; career fell into a fissure 

Legendary enigma with predominant wins as a chess wunderkind,
     But his greatest battle was with his discombobulated mind.



Date written: 12/21/2022...

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WHISPER

I hear and feel the whisper of the wind
It carries the message that I understand
I know it speaks, yet I’m no wunderkind

Its words are like a billion grains of sand
Flowing past my ears in constant chatter
This is no role in life that I have planned

Some words stick but many others scatter
Those of significance I’ll always remember
A significant few, but most do not matter

Both Spring breezes or gales in November
That meaning burns like a red hot ember
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