Hello. I am not sure if this belongs in this forum or not, but I was wondering if you all could give me some help or inspiration. I am writing several poems for school. One of them is an Alphabet poem, in which I use every letter of the alphabet to describe something. The words have to be adjectives or descriptive phrases. Here is an example my teacher gave the class:

Shoes

 

Accents, big

Clumsy, dirty, elegant

Fashionable, grand heels,

Interesting,

Jive, kinky

Loafers, messy

Niffy, old, pointy,

Quirky,

Ridiculous sneakers

Toes up

Vamps wide

Xceptional, yellow

Zany.

 

I have decided for the subject of my poem to be about chess. The following is what I have thought of so far:

Chess

 

A big challenge

Delightful, entertaining

Fun, great, highly interesting,

Jumping knights

Loveable masterpiece

Nice obsession

Perfect,

Queens, rooks

Strategical, tactical

Unsurpassed

Very wonderous

Xciting

 

 

So if anyone has any good ideas or can find a way to inspire me, I would really appreciate it.

 

Highly intelligent jargon-knowing l-word (can't think of anything good here,) mate other players

I could put down highly interesting... not sure what my teacher would say to the rest of what you said.

Here's one of the ones I've writtten so far...

 

CHESS


Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces,
control these spaces, trade threats and responses,
send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes
imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes.
We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war
inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed,
insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside
this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of it's rules?


- Rael

 

http://blog.chess.com/Rael/chess-poem

 

That does not really belong under any of the types of poems I need to do... the words you use may still be inspiring.

Cool cool, for further inspiration you might check out a blog post killGoose made about famous poetry involving chess...

 

http://blog.chess.com/killGoose/collection-of-popular-authors-chess-poems-i

 

Aeppel wrote one herself, but I'm sure she'd kill me if I posted it here, maybe if you ask her nicely, haha.

Oh, and P.s. for extra credit, try to involve Caissa somehow, your teacher will be impressed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caissa

 

Rael wrote:

Here's one of the ones I've writtten so far...

 

CHESS


Meet me then, within this grid,
this little wooden battlefield as equals,
as we forget our bodies to inhabit these pieces,
control these spaces, trade threats and responses,
send our thoughts out into possible positions, our eyes
imagining nothing but sweet forks and lancing fianchettoes.
We chessplayers, pretend enemies, bound to our miniature war
inexplicably & inescapably: when did we find ourselves so obsessed,
insidiously seduced to advances and exchanges, lost inside
this abyss of infinite moves, willing servants of it's rules?


- Rael

 

http://blog.chess.com/Rael/chess-poem

 

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If I put this to the tone and tempo of Charlie Mckenzie in So I married an axe murderer, then it works. otherwise. :-)

Thanks for everyone's help so far. I am going to put in "jumping knight" for now, even if it does not really work for the poem. If someone can figure out a good adjective that starts with k, then I can say "Just _________".

kick.  Like if a knight gets too close to you fortress, you can kick it with a pawn move.

kill the king. 

Not quite what you're looking for, but, from the simpleton poet:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.

Chess is creative.
And a journey too.

Good in the morning.
Or just before bed.

Play cheater_1, with engine.
Or OTB, all in your head.

AquaMan wrote:

Not quite what you're looking for, but:

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Chess is creative.
And a journey too.
Good in the morning.
Or just before bed.

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My mother always told me, if you have nothing good to say then say nothing at all. Obviously, I never listened, but perhaps nobody told you at all!!

Evil, you didn't like my poem? :(  I modified it slightly, already.

killing move

kinless pawn

kind knight / rook....

kind-  hearted

kindred joined forces

kittenish Queen

knotty all pawn position 

 

AquaMan wrote: Evil, you didn't like my poem? :(  I modified it slightly, already.

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It's just like cornflakes. Like how can you improve upon perfection :-)

Rael shares my mental block around the fact that the contraction "it's" can't be used as a possessive.  Nice to know I've got company.  I always catch that mistake as a reader; I always make that mistake as a writer.  (Sigh.)  Ok, I'm off topic.

emiab wrote:

killing move

kinless pawn

kind knight / rook....

kind-  hearted

kindred joined forces

kittenish Queen

knotty all pawn position 

 

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Dear sweet Jesus, talk about crimes against humanity!!!!

When this came in I had to send the children outside.

If anyone is interested, here is the acrostic poem I wrote on the subject of Acrostic poems.

Acrostic

 

Annoying concept

Challenges you to waste time and paper

Run away from these poems

Outrageous notion

Silly invention

Torments me

I am not a poet

Creativity is needed to be 200% of yourself to construct one line.

 

 

Seeing my teacher's face when she read this was very satisfying.

Good work Feldmm, it's often fun to deny writing poetry within a piece. I've got one called "No Poetry" which is a litany to the fact that I don't have any poetry to present tonight, goes over pretty well at readings.

Your acrostic It works because it's telling the truth (except for the part about you not being a poet, while you wrote it you were. So you've had a taste - do you like it? It's in the process and not necessarily the piece).

 

People ought to post more poetry for Evil_Homer to declare as trash. He's just getting warmed up! The best art critics are the ones whose standards are so high they don't like anything. Haha.

DeepGreene wrote: Rael shares my mental block around the fact that the contraction "it's" can't be used as a possessive.  Nice to know I've got company.  I always catch that mistake as a reader; I always make that mistake as a writer.  (Sigh.)  Ok, I'm off topic.

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Argh, I know! Some part of me doesn't understand that. One of my professors wrote me a long note about it.

I just don't understand how if it's "Rael's X" with the , demarching possession, that it can't be "it's X", possessive.

The little thing even looks like a little hand around the shoulder of the X, pulling it into possession.

Anyways... thanks for catching it. Haha. Master copy corrected!

The poet is Evil,

But his poetry is tame.