<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471273" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Game with the Queen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Exigent hands quaver with every piece and every move<br>Trepidation burns by the wrists and incinerates to approve<br>Taking leisure with the melody of the clacking marble board<br>Draining the chance in every silence, a scheme averting discord<br>A piece sent to the fore; one blind consoling assault<br>And a thousand fold behind; the corollaries' retort<br>The head of my pawns unabashedly roll on thy feet<br>Giving the sanctuary away but seizing through from defeat<br>A king not philanthropic, but defamed by a flimsy wreak <br>Of a lifelong war against the juxtaposed throne of golden bleak <br>Swords unsheathed, hearts on the sleeve; a heedless surrender<br>Vicissitude lapsed flailing with the knight of hope caped with forever<br>The erstwhile havoc brought life, and death, to a greater turmoil <br>An anticipated ally, an astonishing enemy, swords melted in recoil<br>To the opposing queen who fought for a convicted crown's abduction <br>If the king would meet thy grandeur in the front line, would there be vindication? <br>False hope akin to all hope, behead me for I will resurrect<br>How many times have I surmised and defeated whimsy death?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471273" data-title="Game with the Queen de Norman Santos" data-description="Exigent hands quaver with every piece and every move Trepidation burns by the wrists and incinerates to approve Taking leisure with the melody of the clacking marble board Draining the chance in every silence, a scheme averting discord A piece sen..."></div> </div> </div>

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