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Checkmate

By LlamaX

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

White pawn to C4, Cold, white, ivory. Strategy, charm, methodology. Black knight to C6, Colder, black, onyx. The pawn sees a modest goal, An opportune sortition. He plays passively, in wait and strives to meet the goal. Does he make it? Go across The check'd Day and night board? Hardly. Smitten, smote. In one fell swoop A modest goal 'twas, A less modest foe had he.It's short and I used weird language, it's really unlike what I usually write, but I want to give a wide variety of schtuff I've written. This is one of my personal favorites, written after someone crushed me right after I met them. Written February 20th, 2002 © on Mar 05 2002 01:36 PM PST   18 • 0 • 1

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