Chess
Title
Chess
Description
Poem about playing chess.
Date
1945-01-25
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
One page typewritten document
Publisher
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Contributor
Identifier
SYeomanHT104405v10013
Transcription
[underlined]CHESS[/underlined]
Huddled round stove
To warmth of knee
I plot pent cunning
In harmless
Brain murder
Noting his hair
Above taut mind
Needlessly
I see the
Tumbled swinging
Smoke from cigarette
And burn scar on
My hand
Master a while
The power I take
I match brain vigour
To latent wood
And wonder thinking
Me futile
Less than pawn
Knowing no mover
And no win.
21 Jan 45
Tuddenham
Huddled round stove
To warmth of knee
I plot pent cunning
In harmless
Brain murder
Noting his hair
Above taut mind
Needlessly
I see the
Tumbled swinging
Smoke from cigarette
And burn scar on
My hand
Master a while
The power I take
I match brain vigour
To latent wood
And wonder thinking
Me futile
Less than pawn
Knowing no mover
And no win.
21 Jan 45
Tuddenham
Collection
Citation
“Chess,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/30976.
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