Red knights, brown bishops, bright queens, Striking the board, falling in strong "1's of color. Reaching and striking in angles, This board is alive with light; these pieces are living in form, Their moves break and reform the pattern: Luminous green from the rooks. Clashing with "x"s of queens, looped with the knight-leaps. y pawns. cleaving, embanking! Whirl! Centripetal! Mate! King down in the vortex. Clash. leaping of bands. straight stripe of hard color. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HATRED by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT THE BLACK RIDERS: 9 by STEPHEN CRANE UPON JULIA'S BREASTS by ROBERT HERRICK SIMMENTHAL by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THERE WAS A BOY (VERSION 1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE FROGS: THE FATAL OIL-FLASK by ARISTOPHANES |