the queen’s rapture

11 Jan 2015

the queen’s rapture

your empire means nothing to me
but your queen is my everything

kidnapped and held for ransom
you scrambled to amass
your very best men
sent them on a quest to save her

I directed them down multiple ways
each avenue looping into other
promising outlets where horses
drink from rivers flowing underground

and so you regrouped yet again
the man we call king
hiring more men to satisfy
your obsession with recapture
an obsession
certain to awaken royal madness
stirring within a mighty empire

january two thousand fifteen
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Posted in Poetry and tagged chess, empire, king, poem, poetry, queen

8 thoughts on “the queen’s rapture”

Russel Ray Photos on January 13, 2015 at 10:46 am said:

Happy new year and best wishes to you and yours for health, happiness, peace & prosperity in 2015!

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- j matthew waters on January 15, 2015 at 12:46 pm said:
  
  Thank you and same to you, Russel.
  
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thefirstdark on March 16, 2016 at 2:00 am said:

Reblogged this on The Darkness in the Light.

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- j matthew waters on January 10, 2019 at 9:42 pm said:
  
  thank you dear!
  
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alguit on January 10, 2019 at 9:35 pm said:

I like this, and I also see you writing with a different voice now, even more poetic. 🙂

-Alan

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- j matthew waters on January 10, 2019 at 9:42 pm said:
  
  thank you Alan ~ poetry is anything but constant ~ always reading and learning and influenced
  
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Shawna on January 11, 2019 at 1:06 pm said:

Wow. This really gets to me. I hope she’s safe.

That’s a real gift you have, making me worry so about the well-being of a chess piece.

This is really fabulous work. You are a brilliant poet. I hope you know that.

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- j matthew waters on January 11, 2019 at 6:38 pm said:
  
  Shawna, thank you very much that’s very nice of you to say. I’m thrilled you enjoy my poetry, it means so much to me.
  
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