Best Checkers Poems

Racist checkers-ego fueled. 
Back and forth they go. 
Jump me once I'll jump you twice. 
Careening toward the darkest back row.

Nothing left but two lonely pieces. 
Forever frozen in opposite corners.
Staring over a checkered past.
Over a field of a burned-out dream....

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If I could go back
For just a day
Even just a few hours
I would set up the board
Put each checker in it's place
I would see
Really see
Grandpa across the table
Him with his furrowed brow.
I would be less concerned 
Less focused on winning
I would relish his laugh
Listen carefully...

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I ain't surprised by anything I hear on the news nowadays!
The way the gov'mint is bein' run just leaves me in a daze!
This mornin' I heard another of Obama's schemes has gone sour!
Seems that this lulu will add more to China's balance of power!

His stim-scheme...

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Two kings were playing checkers. One challenged the other to a dual over lunch. The first king took a bite of his salami sandwich. And oh what a pickle he was in! The second king jumped two of his pieces and then took two! “Check!”...

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Knocking down trees with your face
Describes skiing so I play Checkers in place
Coz the worst that can happen
Your opponent gets mad and
Pulls out a gun and you are erased...

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Let me tell you a story about two friends
and all the wisdom this story lends

two men play checkers every day
each hold in their mind memories that stay

both are widowers living their final years
they keep in their pain and all of their tears

in old, crumpled hats...

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Nobody plays a good game of checkers anymore, 
Squared off like fierce, ruthless fiends
Hunched over, hypnotized by crowned kings
And heavy losses spent of jubilee

You can't plug in a checkerboard
Or marvel at the clink, clink, clink
Of counting blips against green bumpers, 
Though a black can disappear...

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Checkers what a game,                                         ...

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Checkers!!!
Black and red squares
going nowhere
you move up, down, horizontal almost everywhere
Jump me , I jump you
Move to the other ends of the square
old one new ones too
All intellectuals do
Crown me, king me,  I statically grin
You won, I win, whose next who's in
this a game...

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We play checkers....God plays chess
Our quick game of checkers usually result 
in distress...

He knows all ....sees all
Don’t need a crystal ball...

In silent rescue...He plays His game of chess;  
always 10 moves ahead 
working on our hasty chaotic mess...

All the while we boil in the...

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Sometimes I play checkers with a grizzly bear
He always wins I don't care
Red or black I let him choose
And I always make sure that I lose
Once I decided to win a game
He got angry and went insane
Snatched up his board and went home
Left me bleeding...

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Terror driven the thunderstorm outside
Animals are uncomfortable and wet
There is no willing earthly place to hide
Grandma sits and knits as aunt and uncle fret
There is a pause, the lightning not well set
Gray thunder roars as loud as any train
Across from grandpa I move my checker...

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