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The Moon's Game
February 12, 2012
The sun hides from the night
As night basks in its shame
But once the sun takes flight
The moon can start its game
Its little match of chess
Its stars that he calls pawns
Leave nothing but a mess
Abilities raise wan
The ivory starts soon
Gliding in on gleam
The darkness of the moon
Follows as a dream
Flying through the black
Chasing ‘way the blue
The day is falling back
So night can start anew
The pawns are taken worst
Into opponent’s ring
“That’s why they all go first,”
The queen sighs to her king
The sun is sinking fast
The moon charges the sun
To fall, the moon is last
The night has clearly won
The moon hides from the day
As sun basks in its shame
The moon has given way
So sun can start its game
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This article has 7 comments.
austenite77 GOLD said...
on Feb. 16 2012 at 10:48 pm
Oh I love poems that make me smile. This made me smile. I do agree that it reminds me of the walrus and the carpenter. It was great use of rhymes. I liked it a lot!
SpringRayyn PLATINUM said...
on Feb. 16 2012 at 9:28 pm
That makes me curious now, what's the sun's game? Awesome poem! A little confusing at first though.
Kiki_McGee GOLD said...
on Feb. 15 2012 at 7:01 pm
I love the metaphor to a chess game! I also really like the dialog with the queen because I think that it adds dimension. By the way, I noticed that this poem is listed under the free verse category when it should probably be somewhere else (I would say a category but I don't remember them). I don't believe that free verse poems rhyme though I could be mistaken.
JustAnotherOwl SILVER said...
on Feb. 14 2012 at 3:16 pm
This is really great! (: It sort of reminds me of the beginning of the Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll! Which is a compliment coming from me; because I love Lewis Carroll! Haha. Anyway, this was really nice!
Kell said...
on Feb. 14 2012 at 4:54 am
I liked how melodic it was! I really like it!
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